He would leave the fort on April fifteenth if the Confederates made no hostile act against Fort Sumter or against the United States flag.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

In other words, as the judge said, what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder or any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does, in fact, exonerate you from any guilt.

换言之，正如法官常说的，情有可原，未必不可法外容情,当然我不认为，一句情有可原,就能为盗窃，谋杀以及其他违法行为正名，但有时，情有可原的程度,确实可能法外容情，赦免你的罪行。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In Kenya,Human Rights Watch says, people are losing faith that the power-sharing government of President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga will act against powerful politicians and business leaders accused of supporting and inciting ethnic violence in the aftermath of the disputed presidential elections in 2007.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

It is sabotage. It means to damage or destroy as an act of subversion against an organization or nation.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Therefore,to send troops to a state where federal officers had resigned such as South Carolina would be an act of war against the state.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The document added to criticisms that federal officials did not act aggressively enough against Toyota.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

This is because it was against the law in England for women to act onstage.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

They want Congress to pass a measure called the International Violence Against Women Act.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

The Criminal and Seditious Libel Act criminalizes statements that create disaffection against the government or damage the government's reputation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Investigators in Mexico say the detained suspect claims the ambush of a US couple near the Juarez city hall on Saturday,March 13, was carried out as an act of retribution against Arthur Redelfs, who worked as an El Paso County Sheriff's detention officer and was accused by gang members of mistreating their compatriots there.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01