sense of law

But any sense of law and order seems to have broken down long ago.

The sense of law, so fundamental to the Jewish tradition, has been corrupted.

"Where are you going to get an Arab jurist with a sense of law, order, political independence and neutrality?"

It does so effectively in much the same way as the presence of police on the beat reinforces a sense of law and order.

This has created a remarkable sense of law and order within the community, and a respect for one another's property and rights.

But arbitrary diktat from the center - the Maoist sense of law - does not fit what China has become in recent years.

It violated his instinctive sense of Law, "Impossible."

But others raised questions about the wisdom of using Aden, a dilapidated, bustling port with only a limited sense of law and order.

Howard Beach, horrible enough because of the initial attack, thus also became a lens magnifying an enduring sense of law enforcement injustice.

The precision of boundaries impressed him with a sense of law and order, and of good administration in the country where he was a sojourner.

The framers of the "Basic Principles" sought above all to generate a sense of law in the mind of the public.

These troops would be needed to seal the country's borders, secure armament caches, contain local militias and restore a sense of law and order.

The whole Western sense of law is outraged, for example, when a lawyer tries to help people under detention and a government retaliates by detaining him without trial.

After Islamist leaders defeated the last of Mogadishu's warlords, they immediately restored a sense of law and order unheard of in the capital for 15 years.

Rather was it some sense of law, an ethic of her race and early environment, that compelled her to interpose her body between her husband and the helpless murderer.

Nezabitovsky is best known for his study of international law and his conception of a global law versus an international law, in the sense of law between nations.

But as they had throughout most of the civil case, Ms. Brawley's former advisers scoffed at Mr. Pagones's concept of victory and at Justice Hickman's sense of law.

Lost in the process is the sense of law as a public calling that imposes on all who practice it a duty to advance the public good and to behave with the civility that this entails.

It posits itself in opposition to positive law, as the latter depicts itself in social reality and methodologically in the objective "should-have" sense of law, which reveals itself through value-related interpretation.

His raids and sabotage have come down hard on Wallace's supporters, and occasionally have frustrated King's dreams of vengeance; but his mere existence is an affront to the German sense of Law and Order.

For his part, the crusty nationalist candidate, Gen. Aleksandr I. Lebed, says, "I'm going to the election in order not to allow a civil war" - presumably an appeal to voters who admire his strong sense of law and order.

The wilderness through which they wander is spiritual as well as physical: the source of their rebelliousness is not only physical hardship but also the lack of a fully developed sense of law, order, and community to replace their clearly defined life in Egypt.

Typical of his gentlemanly sense of law, Beaumanoir interpolates into the section Des Semonses of his customal a discourse on permissible and impermissible flight, reminding his readers that those who flee are more likely to be killed than those who stand.

In 1993, he and several colleagues, and then alumni, began developing a Global Law program, which perfectly suits Sexton sense of law's larger purposes as well as his grandiose vision for N.Y.U. "Globalization" was in the air; the new program would confirm N.Y.U.'s status as a leadership school.

He walked swiftly through City Hall Park, pigeons strolling even in the bitter cold, hands behind their backs like little old men, passing freshly painted green benches; here among the formidable, pillared buildings of government, there was still a sense of law and order, of civilization functioning, even though the city proper was a shambles.