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Example sentences for: criminalize

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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."
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.
Funny, I don't see the government arresting pack-a-day cigarette smokers or lobbying to criminalize tobacco.
Santorum's bill, which actually would have done something to criminalize certain types of abortions.