Law-abiding Sentence Examples

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  • Teaching kids character education helps them become law-abiding, contributing citizens.

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  • The Maoris of to-day are law-abiding, peaceable and indolent.

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  • As a rule they are orderly and law-abiding, but traditions of plunder have been handed down to them from early times, and many of them retain the predatory instincts of their forefathers.

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  • But in doing so, law enforcement must remain cognizant of the need to protect the law-abiding public's privacy while protecting the public.

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  • Will Smith continue to commit crimes, will he become more law-abiding, or will he become more skillful at evading detection?

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  • He comes across as a very dutiful, law-abiding citizen with the best interests of his traveling passengers at heart.

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  • Some very worrying conflicts could arise for perfectly law-abiding, fair-minded employers.

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  • The added cruelty of the law is just another jab in the already bleeding side of normally law-abiding people.

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  • The generally law-abiding motorist feels like a hunted animal.

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  • As a result, many New York neighborhoods went from relatively law-abiding to pretty lawless in a decade.

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  • Once again the right to privacy of law-abiding individuals is being abridged supposedly to help catch lawbreakers.

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  • Why permanently penalize the vast majority of law abiding motorists for the sake of a few speed merchants?

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  • Shouldn't the police be catching " real " criminals rather than wasting time on law-abiding motorists?

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  • The hackers use ' zombie PCs ', infected by viruses such as MyDoom and Bagle, making law-abiding users and businesses unwitting participants.

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  • It is true that centuries of law-abiding and litigious habitude had accumulated in the temple archives of each city vast stores of precedent in ancient deeds and the records of judicial decisions, and that intercourse had assimilated city custom.

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  • Aside from the other Scary Movie films, you may remember her from Law Abiding Citizen, First Sunday, The Elder Son, The Other Brother, or in 25 episodes of Ally McBeal.

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  • Copyright infringement is an often fuzzy topic among even the most law abiding citizen.

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  • If you're an honest, law-abiding guy, like everyone says Jeffrey Byrne was or is, why don't you just turn it in to the closest police station?

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  • At last the law-abiding Jews might and must assert the majesty of the outraged Law.

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  • Cuvier's morphological doctikne received its fullest development in the principle of the " correlation of parts," which he applied to palaeontological investigation, namely, that every animal is a definite whole, and that no part can be varied without entailing correlated and law-abiding variations in other parts, so that from a fragment it should be possible, had we a full knowledge of the laws of animal structure or morphology, to reconstruct the whole.

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  • The Saxons had become law-abiding, and the fierce Danes treated them in the same way as in former days they had treated the Britons.

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  • The Moslems, who are among the most law-abiding and intelligent citizens of Freetown, have several state-aided primary schools.

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  • InApril1901,in the Canadian House of Commons, the minister of justice made a statement about them in which he said that "not a single offence had been committed by the Doukhobors; they were law-abiding, and if good conduct was a recommendation, they were good immigrants..

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  • His little principality of Glogau soon became famous as a'model state, and as governor of Silesia he suppressed the robber knights with an iron hand, protected the law-abiding classes, and revived commerce.

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  • In its first meaning it protects and defends society from the dissidents, those who decline to be bound by the general standard of conduct accepted by the larger number of the law-abiding, and in this sense it is chiefly concerned with the prevention and pursuit of crime.

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  • No sort of espionage is attempted, no effort made to penetrate privacy; no claim to pry into the secret actions of law-abiding persons is or would be tolerated; the agents of authority must not seek information by underhand or unworthy means.

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  • It compares favourably as regards crime and insanity with intoxicating drinks, the inhabitants of Balasor being a particularly law-abiding race, and the insane forming only 0.0069% of the population.

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  • And yet it was to this property-holding, debt-paying, law-abiding, well-dressed, courteous-mannered citizen of Concord that the ardent and enthusiastic turned as the prophet of the new idealism.

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  • A share of this was the birthright of every law-abiding member of the Feini who needed it.

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  • The religious penal code it was thought meritorious to evade; the commercial penal code was ostentatiously defied; and both tended to make Ireland the least law-abiding country in Europe.

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  • In February 1883 Mr Trevelyan gave an account of his stewardship at Hawick, and said that all law-abiding Irishmen, whether Conservative or Liberal, were on one side, while on the other were those who " planned and executed the Galway and Dublin murders, the boycotting and firing into houses, the mutilation of cattle and intimidation of every sort."

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  • If you're a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide you've nothing to fear, eh?

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  • Meanwhile, magistrates are locking up otherwise law-abiding sellers of cannabis for seven years.

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  • Clive didn't bank on Des being so law-abiding.

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  • Christianity is not a lawless but an excellent law-abiding faith.

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  • Arthur Dent - a regular Joe, an average law-abiding British citizen who has no idea that his friend is really not from around here at all.

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