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  • In addition, efforts were made to inculcate law-abiding attitudes and strengthen the unity of command principle.
  • Our problem is we are the most law-abiding community, the pensioners - we weren't brought up to go mob-handed anywhere.
  • Was he genuinely not aware of the sort of law-abiding person you are? Times, Sunday Times
  • What about law-abiding citizens' human rights to be safe? The Sun
  • Then all these scruffy layabouts who had nothing better to do with their time than try to prevent law-abiding country folk from tearing foxes apart could be arrested and prosecuted.
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  • Cyclists behaving like law-abiding citizens? Times, Sunday Times
  • I am a law-abiding person. The Sun
  • This must be the only case in history of the usual suspects being the most law-abiding citizens.
  • But what it is doing is totally alienating otherwise law-abiding citizens and turning them into criminals.
  • So the introduction of random breath tests should not be a problem for the law-abiding majority. The Sun
  • It expects two things of adolescents: that they achieve academically and are law-abiding.
  • The Prime Minister said: "I am anxious that the law should protect decent law-abiding citizens and their property
  • The Reasoned Amendment claims the Bill fails to tackle the ‘inadequacies’ of animal welfare legislation, but would criminalise the activities of tens of thousands of law-abiding citizens.
  • We are very grateful for the response of the law-abiding majority.
  • The intelligence service is not in the business of routinely monitoring the activities of law-abiding citizens.
  • After the expulsion of the master, the Twentieth School fell upon evil days, for the trustees decided that it would be better to try "gurl" teachers, as Hughie contemptuously called them; and this policy prevailed for two or three years, with the result that the big boys left the school, and with their departure the old heroic age passed away, to be succeeded by an age soft, law-abiding, and distinctly commercial. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry
  • This is a matter of more than sheer law-abidingness with him. Conservatives: The Tanenhaus Taxonomy
  • Problem is, short of erecting a magic barrier that vaporizes all guns upon entering the city limits, how do you propose to enforce such a ban, in such a way that denies *all* people access to guns, not just the law-abiding? A New Concept for Gun Control
  • I don't think that a society can be encultured to the point where they are willing to law-abidingly starve to death or die of exposure. Nasty, Brutish Looting, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • When will the powers that be realise we need a deterrent sufficient to stamp out these evil, heinous crimes to protect law-abiding citizens? The Sun
  • To a lot of good law-abiding citizens like myself it is their job. The Sun
  • To a lot of good law-abiding citizens like myself it is their job. The Sun
  • We welcome anyone to Bolton if their intention is to lead a responsible law-abiding life.
  • HOWEVER, the second you begin darting in and out of traffic like a gang of overmedicated pinheads and interfering with its normal flow, you not only break traffic laws but you also create a considerable amount of danger to other pedestrians, to law-abiding drivers who may or may not support the war and are otherwise minding their own business, and to medical and law enforcement personnel. Protesters Snarl Downtown Traffic at cvillenews.com
  • Children will profit from drill in and out of school in the science of avoiding offense and of giving happiness, but unless the categories -- _acts that give offense_ and _acts that give happiness_ -- are wide enough to include the main acts committed in the normal relations of son, companion, employer, husband, father, and citizen, those who set out to avoid alcohol and tobacco find themselves ill equipped to carry the obligations of a temperate, law-abiding citizen. Civics and Health
  • It also devalues the achievement of the majority of poor minority kids, who struggle to live decent, law-abiding lives.
  • They are all law-abiding citizens and actively wish to contribute to society.
  • a god-fearing and law-abiding people
  • This Week in DVD, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, coco before chanel, Good Hair, halo legends, Hunger, Law-Abiding-Citizen, revanche, spring fever kingdarius black dynamite is no less than a buy because it was hilarious! and basically tha funniest movie i've seen since 40yr old virgin and saying its a rent is just plain disrespectful This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, and More | /Film
  • I'm not sure where law-abidingness fits among the virtues. Arizona's Immigration Reform
  • They just catch mainly honest and law-abiding citizens who, for the most part, are driving at appropriate speeds.
  • He may as well have clapped me in irons and commenced flogging in front of the herds of law-abiding legal visitors.
  • And then these Daarians come, and take over, and now you see normally law-abiding citizens revolting left and right!
  • There are many thousands of good, decent, honest, unemployed people who are law-abiding and that never ever broke the law in their lives.
  • When an American-flag-waving delegation of their Alexandria hosts, Tenants and Workers United, briefly marches in a lane of traffic, blocking cars, the trekkers stick law-abidingly to the sidewalk. Trail of Dream students walk 1,500 miles to bring immigration message to Washington
  • The law-abiding people of this country seek proper justice. The Sun
  • Let's hope that means an end to the most badly abused aspect of existing law: It forces the discharge of otherwise law-abiding service members whose sexual orientation is revealed by third parties such as jilted partners or spurned would-be lovers of the opposite sex. Local News from The Gainesville Sun
  • It is another to argue for obedience to a specific set of laws on consequentialist grounds that have nothing to do with law-abidingness in general. The Volokh Conspiracy » Law and Economics Training for Religious Leaders:
  • He discredits the idea that the innocent and law-abiding have nothing to worry about, arguing that privacy isn't simply an individual ‘quality of life’ issue.
  • He clearly was neither a law-abiding person nor an upstanding member of the local community.
  • No wonder decent law-abiding people despair. The Sun
  • More likely the product of those years, in the main, turned into decent law-abiding members of society.
  • The law-abiding majority will rightly worry about the ease with which the police can access confidential data. Times, Sunday Times
  • This terrible crime has shocked all law-abiding citizens.
  • You let criminals into the country, but keep out law-abiding people. The Sun
  • You cannot just strut your junk in your trunk and funk in your fishburger in front of decent, law-abiding citizens and think that it is okay. TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
  • It would also hugely benefit the vast majority of law-abiding refugees. The Sun
  • The public and principle breaking of the law by otherwise law-abiding persons is meant to call attention to the unjustness of that law.
  • Tax amnesties inevitably give rise to resentment on the part of most law-abiding citizens.
  • ‘The refugees and asylum seekers are generally law-abiding and educated and have no inclination towards crime,’ he said.
  • The Prime Minister said: "I am anxious that the law should protect decent law-abiding citizens and their property
  • Meanwhile, law-abiding, undemanding, polite and hard-working genuine victims will undoubtably be lost in the white noise of the dependency class, as they fight each other over all the usual issues; child custody, ownership of scrap vehicles, theft of tobacco and pre-pay mobile phones etc. National Victim Agency – Deckchairs, Titanic. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • But we also want the rights of all law-abiding citizens to be respected and protected as well.
  • Add a crusty engineer and his manic assistant, and you have the makings of a team any law-abiding citizen should think twice before calling in to stop trouble.
  • The news has been condemned by civil liberties groups that claim that the plans would mean excessive delving into the lives of law-abiding citizens. Times, Sunday Times
  • This shows how the police can use the law-abiding majority to be its eyes and ears on the streets. Times, Sunday Times
  • But law-abiding taxpayers would be right to resent the apparent leniency being shown to tax dodgers. Times, Sunday Times
  • You let criminals into the country, but keep out law-abiding people. The Sun
  • At the end of the hyper-relgious Victorian era, the British working class was famous for its law-abidingness and lack of illegitimacy. Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue
  • He has very high morals and is law-abiding and he's never done anything criminally wrong in his life.
  • Prison corruption can seem a remote concern to the law-abiding majority. Times, Sunday Times
  • The intelligence service is not in the business of routinely monitoring the activities of law-abiding citizens.
  • No wonder decent law-abiding people despair. The Sun
  • So the introduction of random breath tests should not be a problem for the law-abiding majority. The Sun
  • What is forgotten in most of the talk about litter on our streets and indiscriminate dumping is that it is the law-abiding, honest and upright members of the community that have to pay to have it cleaned up.
  • My point, distilled, is how do you coppers feel when you see this Goverment making more and more laws that tend to isolate you from your natural alies, the law-abiding public? Consultation My Arse! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • While HDCP's digital rights management (DRM) is "revocable" -- it allows copyright owners to generate a fresh set of encryption keys for new releases, after which law-abiding owners of Blu-ray players have to wait for firmware updates to watch those titles -- the master key by its nature can't be revoked without making every existing release unplayable on hardware that complied with the old key. Blu-ray's HDCP security possibly cracked. So what?
  • The Prime Minister said: "I am anxious that the law should protect decent law-abiding citizens and their property
  • This car insurance nonsense just adds expense for law-abiding motorists. The Sun
  • But physicists are a law-abiding bunch, and detest this idea. Times, Sunday Times
  • Minor vandalism is annoying, expensive and distressing to law-abiding citizens.
  • I am normally a law-abiding citizen but I had not a single scruple.
  • The news has been condemned by civil liberties groups that claim that the plans would mean excessive delving into the lives of law-abiding citizens. Times, Sunday Times
  • Any state that abridges the right of a law-abiding citizen to vote is in violation of Section 1. The Volokh Conspiracy » California’s Woes and Prop 13
  • Thereupon I taught her that in every well-constituted city the citizens are not content merely to pass good laws, but they further choose them guardians of the laws,208 whose function as inspectors is to praise the man whose acts are law-abiding, or to mulct some other who offends against the law. Oeconomicus
  • Peaceable felons will then have, like all other law-abiding citizens, the ability to wear body armor defensively with no risk to society and the violent felons who recidivate will face consequences for wearing body armor in their future crimes. The Volokh Conspiracy » United States v. Alderman and Felon Possession of Body Armor:
  • They said the title connects Muslim people with violent extremism in a way that is unjustified, ignoring the fact the majority are law-abiding citizens. Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • In urging the public to assist the police with information, Paul said crime was the business of all law-abiding persons.
  • Do we really think that the only way to make people more economically productive (or health-conscious, or law-abiding, or socially-aware) is to make them sit through tests and lectures for another 4 years, after they have already done it for 13? Matthew Yglesias » What Really Matters in Higher Education
  • In my opinion, they should stop hounding law-abiding citizens and set about catching the obvious culprits, whoever they are.
  • A blanket removal of the protection of law would have bad consequences for us law-abiding types, never mind for the crims.
  • The threat of intimidation and violence to those exercising this right is the antithesis of how a law-abiding and civilized nation conducts itself.
  • The five paramilitary officers from the Rathcoole district had each an unblemished record as a law-abiding citizen.
  • National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Ken Spain goes one better, "It's hard to decipher which is the most fraudulent notion -- the fact that ACORN is a law-abiding entity worthy of a $4.2 billion bailout or that $1.1 trillion in out-of-control government spending is going to defy the experts and have some sort of immediate effect on the economy. Bertha Lewis: ACORN: The Bogeyman in the GOP Closet
  • The problem nowadays is that there is no proper justice for law-abiding people.
  • Our law and order policies are tough, but they are fair and they are non-restrictive for law-abiding citizens.
  • They were fabulous company and we had a very good evening with them, eventually heading for the dortoir about 9pm, leaving the guardienne eating fondue with two friends, and demolishing several bottles of wine after which the friends presumably drove back down the hill, dispelling the stereotype that the Swiss are all obsessively law-abiding. Day 7 – Bonatti to Gite la Lechere
  • However, the toilet block will be kept closed for the immediate future and a campaign will be mounted to ensure the toilets are returned to the use of law-abiding citizens.
  • And your assertion that the working classes were notoriously law-abiding is laughable, simply because laws back then criminalized debt. Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue
  • No law-abiding person is complaining there. Times, Sunday Times
  • Indeed, in his Lyceum speech of 1838 he made law-abidingness the condition of the maintenance of democracy. David Bromwich: Obama on Civility and Lincoln on the Rule of Law
  • It will definitely help bring some peace of mind to law-abiding citizens who are rightfully concerned about the safety of their children.
  • The Government need to protect law-abiding citizens and stop pandering to thugs. The Sun
  • It is not acceptable that law-abiding members of our community should suffer the nuisance behaviour of a minority.
  • N: don't think that a society can be encultured to the point where they are willing to law-abidingly starve to death or die of exposure. Nasty, Brutish Looting, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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  • Just as we should all expect to be transported about the city in a totally safe manner by law-abiding, competent drivers.
  • Human rights should be for law-abiding people. The Sun
  • One of the comments most commonly made in this context was that Scotland was a more law-abiding country than England, as evidenced by the prison reformer John Howard having found fewer criminals in its gaols.
  • Purchase and possession (and carry) at 18 – 20 by the otherwise law-abiding is and should be no big deal; 21 is, in the end, as arbitrary (and asinine) an age limit for legal purchase as it is for alcohol. The Volokh Conspiracy » How Would an 18-to-20-Year-Old Go About Buying a Handgun?
  • The overwhelming majority are law-abiding and productive.
  • I think it makes sense - and all the data supports - that if law-abiding, well-trained, 'backgrounded' individuals have a weapon, there will be less crime. Victor Schwartz: Disaster 101: Guns on College Campuses
  • The tax evader skimming unreported income into an offshore account; the briber shuffling funds to the bribee; the violator of the securities laws squirreling away illegal profits; the insecure politician or government official building a retirement fund abroad; the businessman fleeing his creditors; the husband fleeing his wife; the law-abiding citizen fleeing exposure to political or economic risk. Economic Principals
  • I think that liberal democracy, at least as we understand the idea here in the United States, requires that the overwhelming preponderance of the people be law-abiding.
  • It should help to both retain officers and make law-abiding Surrey an attractive posting.
  • My postbag is filled with heartbreaking stories of law-abiding families whose lives are made a living hell by the actions of a few uncaring, selfish individuals whose thoughtlessness or ruthless criminal actions blight and intimidate whole neighbourhoods. Landlords to be given new powers to evict 'neighbours from hell'
  • Republican liberalism is built on the claim that liberal democracies are more peaceful and law-abiding than are other political systems.
  • Decent, law-abiding people can fight back by ensuring they show officers the respect they deserve. The Sun
  • Was he genuinely not aware of the sort of law-abiding person you are? Times, Sunday Times
  • Prison corruption can seem a remote concern to the law-abiding majority. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's yet another way of hitting the pocket of the law-abiding, dutiful driver.
  • Two highly disciplined and law-abiding populations meekly submitted to defeat.
  • Eighth Uncle, you know as well as anyone that my brother and I have been honest, law-abiding citizens since childhood.
  • He was one of those well-mannered young bachelors who lead quiet, conventional, law-abiding lives in which little of interest ever happens. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • The law-abiding majority will rightly worry about the ease with which the police can access confidential data. Times, Sunday Times
  • Prisoners are better off than law-abiding citizens who can barely afford to eat and heat their homes. The Sun
  • When are we going to learn in this country that placating the minority to the detriment of the law-abiding community will only end in chaos?
  • The law-abiding majority will rightly worry about the ease with which the police can access confidential data. Times, Sunday Times
  • Anyway, she'd been a model pupil: diligent, biddable, and extremely law-abiding. TICKLED PINK
  • Law-abiding drivers will have to fork out extra to pay for compensation awards to victims of some 1,000 hit-and-run incidents being dealt with by insurers.
  • However, it is increasingly apparent that the CAGE unit is targeting law-abiding citizens, not criminal gunrunners.
  • It seemed that those who augmented inadequate incomes by poaching or stealing food raised physically healthier families than the more law-abiding.
  • Two highly disciplined and law-abiding populations meekly submitted to defeat.
  • If Catholics figure disproportionately in the crime statistics, it is because Protestants are more law-abiding.
  • Nope, you said that the fraction of private transfer that are law-abiding is insignificant. The Volokh Conspiracy » Mayor Bloomberg’s gun show bill
  • Men are law-abiding because of their desire to avoid te pain of the consequences of bad behaviors, and the desire to be good does make a difference in life. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • An example needs to be made of him on behalf of all honest, law-abiding motorists. The Sun
  • But hardly a day goes by in America without some "law-abiding," gun-toting citizen breaking the law and snuffing out lives. Paul Helmke: Make Concerns of Gun Violence Victims a Priority
  • Lack of affordable housing and a shortage of properties can price decent, law-abiding people out of homes.
  • There is a tendency to look back at a time when people were more peaceful and law-abiding.
  • 'criminalisation' of otherwise law-abiding citizens, whose only 'crime' is to use their own money as they see fit. Xml's Blinklist.com
  • The Government need to protect law-abiding citizens and stop pandering to thugs. The Sun
  • Yet the society has descended from being marginally lawless to one in which the outlaws outnumber the law-abiding.
  • Prisoners are better off than law-abiding citizens who can barely afford to eat and heat their homes. The Sun
  • rectifier" 's comment - somehow, proposing and supporting the murder of law-abiding citizens actually violates the SFGate's user agreement. Walls of the city
  • Which brings us back to the Sikhs, who before this incident in Birmingham were the model of a law-abiding minority community.
  • Truth is, what Holder really supports is more law-abiding citizens being victimized by recidivistic, violent punks on parole. The Nuge, On Obama, Holder
  • Give the guns back to the law-abiding citizens and the whole "motherfuckin" problem goes away Ace of Spades HQ
  • They want the community where the decent, law-abiding majority are in charge.
  • Law-abiding traders complained after noticing a huge number of fakes on the market.
  • Policies like the smacking ban would criminalise law-abiding people, he said.
  • Male speaker A lot of law-abiding youngsters may feel the way to get a holiday is to commit a crime.
  • So the introduction of random breath tests should not be a problem for the law-abiding majority. The Sun
  • The vast majority of postal workers are decent, honest, law-abiding people.
  • They even regard law-abidingness as a disadvantage… Slaw » Everybody’s Doin’ It » Print
  • We know that most people are decent, law-abiding and neighbourly.
  • At the age of 69, Val Hobson has become an eco-warrior - spurning the habits of a law-abiding lifetime to be on the front line of a campaign to prevent a mobile mast being built near her home.
  • Paddy was a peaceful, decent, law-abiding and honest citizen.
  • This refusal to have an enquiry is one more high-handed response to the reasonable concerns of the law-abiding public.
  • An example needs to be made of him on behalf of all honest, law-abiding motorists. The Sun
  • The Government need to protect law-abiding citizens and stop pandering to thugs. The Sun
  • I find England irksomely restful and law-abiding after the Continent, but The Yeoman Adventurer
  • This shows how the police can use the law-abiding majority to be its eyes and ears on the streets. Times, Sunday Times
  • We are public-spirited, law-abiding citizens who should not have to pay for the hospital's shortcomings.
  • Nonverbal cues and skewed messages all coalesce to produce what Johnson called lacunae in the superegos of the delinquent children, who appeared normal, appropriate, and law-abiding in specific areas of day-to-day living. Clinical Work with Adolescents
  • Human rights should be for law-abiding people. The Sun
  • They are the backbone of sport just as the law-abiding majority are the backbone of society. Times, Sunday Times
  • After a while your pulse rate slows and you come to think maybe these ordinary law-abiding folks ain't zombies after all.
  • This Week in DVD, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, coco before chanel, Good Hair, halo legends, Hunger, Law-Abiding-Citizen, revanche, spring fever kingdarius black dynamite is no less than a buy because it was hilarious! and basically tha funniest movie i've seen since 40yr old virgin and saying its a rent is just plain disrespectful This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, and More | /Film
  • No law-abiding person is complaining there. Times, Sunday Times
  • What about law-abiding citizens' human rights to be safe? The Sun
  • The law-abiding majority will rightly worry about the ease with which the police can access confidential data. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like the rest of the law-abiding citizens of York, I am disgusted with the breakdown of law and order in our city.
  • The law-abiding people of this country seek proper justice. The Sun
  • When will the powers that be realise we need a deterrent sufficient to stamp out these evil, heinous crimes to protect law-abiding citizens? The Sun
  • The loss of trust in decent, law-abiding adults is a huge worry. The Sun
  • We know that most people are decent, law-abiding and neighbourly.
  • In their incompetent hands, data protection has become an asphyxiating blanket of political correctness, rather than a sword and shield to protect the interests of law-abiding citizens.
  • Cyclists behaving like law-abiding citizens? Times, Sunday Times
  • This terrible crime has shocked all law-abiding citizens.
  • Decent, law-abiding people can fight back by ensuring they show officers the respect they deserve. The Sun
  • They are the backbone of sport just as the law-abiding majority are the backbone of society. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am a law-abiding person. The Sun
  • The vast majority of postal workers are decent, honest, law-abiding people.
  • That mechanism must be respected and used if we are to remain a free and law-abiding nation.
  • The Prime Minister said: "I am anxious that the law should protect decent law-abiding citizens and their property
  • The loss of trust in decent, law-abiding adults is a huge worry. The Sun
  • Said interdiction will provide for a greater degree of safety for the law-abiding majorities of those enclaves. Times, Sunday Times
  • A law-abiding citizen who gets caught on a traffic camera faces a stiffer penalty!
  • It would also hugely benefit the vast majority of law-abiding refugees. The Sun

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