lawlessness

How To Use lawlessness In A Sentence

• The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
• The political anarchy (disorder) of the 1970s and 1980s has led to lawlessness in parts of the country.
• But there is something very romantic about the notion of the pirate that remains to this day: The skill of two swashbucklers battling on the deck of a ship, the hunt for buried treasure and the thrill of lawlessness.
• The history of the early years following the cession is a sad record of violence and general lawlessness among the white inhabitants, and of deplorable Indian troubles. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
• These are the questions that plague Coronilla and thousands of others whose relatives from across Latin America have vanished in recent years as lawlessness prevails in large swaths of Mexico. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
• All she could do was stare, still in awe of his flawlessness.
• No one savaged the law's delays and inequities more energetically than Dickens, yet no one worried more about the results of revolution and lawlessness.
• Russia's brutal repression and lawlessness have pushed people towards Islamic fundamentalism.
• The country has no reason to believe that 2005 will see any reversion to the unchecked lawlessness that, at J'Ouvert in Port-of-Spain, for example, has scared away some would-be participants.