Words similar to criminalize

Example sentences for: criminalize

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Chatterbox yields to no content-provider when it comes to condemning special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's excesses--in particular, Starr's attempt to criminalize criticism by calling Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal into the grand jury room.
McCain has been an ardent supporter of the controversial Child Online Protection Act, which seeks to criminalize Web sites that "knowingly" make harmful material available to minors.
The aim of the resolution was to hit the Taliban where it was most sensitive- on the battlefield against the Northern Alliance-and criminalize giving them arms and providing military "advisers," which Pakistan had been doing.
Starr thinks his role is so goddamn important that his prosecutors get a special right to criminalize free speech as "obstruction of justice."
Funny, I don't see the government arresting pack-a-day cigarette smokers or lobbying to criminalize tobacco.