These activities are illegal, and the operators of such massage establishments risk jail if exposed by anti-vice police raids.

The concept was that local officials felt powerless in the face of the federal courts and could not risk fines or jail.

Many had guts, though of a different sort than what was on display in 1964, when they risked expulsion and jail for their principles.

Hardly worth risking jail for.

He raved about the meat and tried to talk his friends into trying it, but none wanted to risk a big fine or jail.

Anyone who fought back, by joining the Resistance, risked jail or death.

Why would prominent investment bankers and lawyers risk jail and the destruction of exemplary careers by flouting the rules of the financial game?

Unable to get through the barriers or unwilling to risk jail for the lower profits from marijuana, some smugglers dropped out; others shifted to cocaine.

In 1963 he risked a contempt sentence and jail for refusing to divulge a reporter's news sources.

The regimes' opponents risk jail or the death penalty, and there is no chance of free elections.