lawful.

Any legislation which was meant to serve the interests of an individual could not rightly be called lawful.

Bangkok Pundit 2008

But the investigation extends only to those who may have gone beyond the "enhanced interrogation" techniques — in plain language, torture — that Bush lawyers had declared "lawful."

Frida Berrigan: Losing the Moral High Ground 2009

They further argued that the law improperly requires dismissal of claims of illegal surveillance based not on a judicial finding about the facts of the spying or the legality or constitutionality of the surveillance, but rather on a certification from the AG that a member of the Executive Branch of government told the telecom company that the surveillance was "lawful."

Obama's DOJ follows lead of Bush regime again: It asks court to cover-up NSA surveillance secrets by dismissing case 2009

Sabbath, for such works as healing the man with a withered hand are always 'lawful.'

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868

An inscription, found in this very theatre in which the words were uttered, illustrates this technical sense of 'lawful.'

Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

These folk paid their taxes grudgingly, but they did not consider it morally "lawful."

The Continuum 2009

The statute improperly requires dismissal of claims of illegal surveillance between September 11, 2001 and January 17, 2007 based not on a judicial finding about the facts of the surveillance or the legality or constitutionality of the surveillance, but instead merely based on a 'certification "from the attorney general that some unknown member of the Executive branch told the carriers that some undescribed surveillance is' lawful. '

SocraticGadfly 2008