The end came with a federal court decision in United States v. Motion Picture Patents Co. on October 1, 1915, which ruled that the MPPC's acts went " far beyond what was necessary to protect the use of patents or the monopoly which went with them " and was therefore an illegal restraint of trade under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Britain went as far as declaring the use of pencil sharpeners illegal to discourage unnecessary sharpening.

To offset this downturn, the manufacture of illegal bootleg liquor, labeled syrup, became an economic mainstay and was sold as far away as Chicago and San Francisco.

In one episode he went as far as covering up Strickland's illegal price fixing agreement with the other local propane providers to keep him from being arrested.

In most countries, strike actions were quickly made illegal, as factory owners had far more political power than workers.

Finally, China is far less inclined to deport illegal North Korean aliens back than Russia is.

These magical stories was far from slander ; in the 13th century, the witch trials were hundreds of years in the future, magic was not illegal and the ability to master magic was considered a great and admirable skill ; there was a clear separation between white and black magic, and not even black magic was yet connected to the Devil or punishable by death, as it would become later.

Despite Perry's notoriety for doctoring baseballs ( i. e. throwing a spitball ), and perhaps even more so for making batters think he was throwing them on a regular basis – he even went so far as to title his 1974 autobiography Me and the Spitter – he was not ejected for the illegal practice until August 23, 1982, in his 21st season in the majors.

As far as agreements are concerned the mere anticompetitive effect is sufficient to make it illegal even if the parties were unaware of it or did not intend such effect to take place.

Due to women's greater involvement in law and law enforcement, in 1871 the first state laws specifically making wife beating illegal were passed, though proliferation of laws to all states and adequate enforcement of those laws lagged very far behind.

However, it was reported in October 2006, after plans were revealed of Saudi plans to build another fence along its border with Iraq that the Saudis have enjoyed " relative success by building a similar, though shorter, security barrier-fence along their southern border with Yemen to cut down on the 400, 000 illegal immigrants who cross it every year looking for work in the far more prosperous Saudi state.

Tensions between the two factions were evident as far back as 1928, with one side frequently hijacking the other's alcohol trucks ( alcohol production was then illegal in the United States due to Prohibition ).

Though they never totaled more than 75, they patrolled as far west as California trying to restrict the flow of illegal Chinese immigration.

Records show illicit distillation in at least ten illegal distilleries on the site as far back as 1742, however.

In response to public reaction against illegal immigration and fears that U. S .- born children of illegal immigrants could serve as links to permit legal residency and eventual citizenship for family members who would otherwise be ineligible to remain in the country, bills have been introduced from time to time in Congress which have challenged the conventional interpretation of the Citizenship Clause and have sought ( thus far unsuccessfully ) to actively and explicitly deny citizenship at birth to U. S .- born children of foreign visitors or illegal aliens.

The pro-drug faction said that narcotics were far more profitable than any other illegal activity.

As Recycled Energy Development CEO Sean Casten testified to Congress, they even went so far as to make it illegal for non-utilities to sell power.

In 1980, large numbers of people from far afield attended, trees were damaged and burnt and there was illegal camping and lurid press reports of drugs and nudity.

If a baserunner strays too far from the base when attempting a take-out slide, the umpire may declare the slide to be an example of illegal interference and call an extra out.

Volksfront's website states that it does not tolerate illegal activity, and asserts that " It is a fact that Volksfront members are far less likely per capita to commit any crime than members of the United States Congress or radical Leftist organizations.

In 1989 game player and designer Michael A. Stackpole wrote Game Hysteria and the Truth which went into all the flaws, misconceptions, inaccuracies, omission of relevant details, and questionable practices ( going as far as to call her editing of newspaper accounts not only illegitimate but since newspapers are copyrighted material and the owners were not contacted about the use of these articles illegal ) regarding Pulling's claims regarding RPGs in general and D & D in particular concluding " If the suicide statistics for the 14 years since D & D's introduction show anything at all, gamers kill themselves at a rate that is a fraction of that of their peers.

It is most often called on field goal attempts because of the curved formation of linemen used: if the line is curved back too far, the ends are too far back to be considered linemen, and are called for " illegal procedure: no end ".

You just have to give it a bit of a tug at the end to snap the shell carrier up ... With quality ammunition and a good bore these rifles are capable of fine accuracy .... A rugged and reliable design, the Lebel soldiered on far longer than it should have.

* Dress Right, DRESS-all personnel in the unit except the soldiers at the far left bring up their left arms parallel to the ground and at the same time snap their heads so they are facing right.

In describing the play in a National Football League game, one may hear the contorted locution, " The quarterback was eligible to receive a forward pass because he was in the shotgun formation ", when it would be far simpler to say that the team's eligible receivers included the tailback who took the snap ; the rules apply differently depending on whether the player is positioned behind the snapper to take a handed snap, or further back and hence in the backfield.

There is also the possibility of an elf not advancing far enough to score, which happens if a player does not get enough power behind the snap.

California is too far, he thought.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Since it is not far from Viareggio, he will visit Puccini's house, as he never fails to do, to pay his respects to the memory of the composer of La Boheme, which he considers one of Puccini's masterpieces.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

This is far from the vulgar, leering sexuality of the middle-class square in heat ''.

Their rebellion against authoritarian society is not far removed from the violence of revolt characteristic of the juvenile delinquent.

As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

His alienation is far more acute than Holmes' ; ;

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

But to me innocence is far less tangible.

In his effort to stir the public from its lethargy, Steele goes so far as to list Catholic atrocities of the sort to be expected in the event of a Stuart Restoration, and, with rousing rhetoric, he asserts that the only preservation from these `` Terrours '' is to be found in the laws he has so tediously cited.

So far as the existing body of formal principle and procedure is concerned, categorical novelties are not to be anticipated in Jewish-Gentile relationships ; ;

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

Whose absence dearer comfort is, by far, Than presences of other women are ''!!

The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.

Again omitting recent developments, E.T. Leeds' dictum of 1913 has stood unchallenged: `` So far as archaeology is concerned, there is not the least warrant for the second ( shore occupied by ) of these theories ''.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.