unlawful entry

collocation in English

meaningsofunlawfulandentry

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unlawful
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈlɔː.fəl/us
/ʌnˈlɑː.fəl/
not allowed ...
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entry
noun
uk
/ˈen.tri/us
/ˈen.tri/
the act of entering a place or joining a particular society ...
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Unlawfulentrynormally requires the paid services of people-smugglers—the criminal gangs who take vast sums from their victims by extortion and threats.
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I can cover both amendments in the same terms by saying that my concern was to address the whole question ofunlawfulentryonto property.
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This could also aidunlawfulentryand thus also jeopardise the interests of genuine asylum seekers.
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Soblen having gainedunlawfulentryinto this country through self-inflicted wounds.
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Information about the number of people in prison awaiting trial on a charge relating tounlawfulentryis not readily available.
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His surprise was even greater when he discovered that anunlawfulentryhad been made into the house to obtain the instrument.
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It was resolved that the act of seeking asylum is not an attempt to gain unauthorised orunlawfulentry.
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However, normally the words, "no less vulnerable to theunlawfulentry"mean"as vulnerable"or"more vulnerable".
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I think he agreed that it was trespass andunlawfulentry.
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Specifically, mechanical breakdown, illness and other immediate emergencies are all grounds on which a traveller may claim that hisunlawfulentryon to land was unavoidable.
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Soblen gainedunlawfulentryinto this country by self-inflicted wounds.
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By contrast, burglary is defined as,unlawfulentryof a structure to commit a felony or theft.
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The court held that every unauthorised, and thereforeunlawfulentry, into the close of another, is a trespass.
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People ringing doorbells are not attempting to makeunlawfulentry.
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Residential burglary requires not only anunlawfulentryinto an inhabited dwelling, but the specific intent to commit some felony therein.
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Section 64 forbids theunlawfulentryof persons into the metro premises or walking on the tracks illegally.
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A related offense, criminal trespass, coversunlawfulentryto buildings or premises without the intent to commit a crime, and is a misdemeanor or, in the third degree, a violation.
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Unlawfulentryinto a building always presents the danger of a confrontation, and if the intruder is likely to be armed, that confrontation becomes that much more dangerous.
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Trespassing isunlawfulentryonto the real property of another.
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