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law

Laws are the official rules of a government or organisation. We have defined crime as behaviour which breaks the criminal law. We believe that this law is wrong and we are not prepared to obey such a law. The Kyoto treaty became law in 2005. The law is the police. A law is something that is always true. Law is the study of laws.

law

(= jurisprudence) the collection of rules imposed by authority civilization presupposes respect for the law the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity there is a law against kidnapping a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature the laws of thermodynamics the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system he studied law at Yale the force of policemen and officers the law came looking for him

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Simple sentences

This law came into existence in 1918.
We ought to obey the law.
The law obliges us to send our children to school.
He decided to abandon law for art.
If you can't get a lawyer who knows the law, get one who knows the judge.
When Tom married Soraya, her father fell in love with and married Tom's daughter; so Tom's daughter's husband is Tom's father-in-law; and Tom now claims he's his own grandfather.
Her boyfriend is in trouble with the law.
That's not against the law, is it?
Who's your mother-in-law?
Some people think that they are above the law.
My brother-in-law stopped learning German and started to learn English.
What law have I broken?
The police expects people to follow the law.
God's law curses the bribe-takers.
My sister-in-law had four children in five years.
Hunger knows no law.
We should always act in obedience to the law.
Finally, in 1314, these games had become so violent and dangerous that King Edward II made a law.
That's against the law.
It is what the law ordains.
The law was enacted in the Meiji era.
The law was enforced immediately.
The law is not in effect any longer.
The law has gone through parliament.
The law needs to be amended.
The law enables us to receive an annuity.
My brother-in-law is ready to lose his temper at trifles.
English law prohibits children under 16 from buying cigarettes.
Newton established the law of gravity.
We all abide by law to live in any society.
Everyone must keep the law.
The law is still in effect.
The law doesn't apply to this case.
The law will be effective from the 1st of April.

Movie subtitles

The West taught the rest its way of doing business. its scientific method. its law and its politics, its way of dressing. of speaking and of praying.
There is only one law to obey here and that is mine!
In terms of our law, it's enough if she gets flogged about 1,000 times, spends a year in a prison and then will be released.
She was someone who could have become your Daughter-in-law.
Haven't you known yet that Lord Choi's words are the law and the rule in this town?
I will show you all whose words are the rule and the law!
If you are in violation of this law then according to the strict rules of this temple you will be punished resolutely.
I mean, landing him would make us West Covina's premiere law firm.
Okay, so now I'm going to smoke some trees with your sister-in-law.
That's part. - Yeah, Mr. Moran, if this continues to go downhill, I'm required by law to notify Child Protective Services.
Okay, we were on a kiss-cam; it's the law.
I'd swear to it in a court of law.
What was expected to be a peaceful demonstration amongst residents and law enforcement turned deadly when what was believed to be a home-grown militia opened fire.
But there is no law against the killing of an animal.
Perhaps, but it's your generals who lay down the law.
It's God's law.
It's the law of the jungle.
I think they'll agree with the Arab Kingdom model, except for Si Kadour, my father-in-law.
I sent him to law school in Montpellier. It cost a bundle, but we wanted him to be our lawyer.
Ahmed got his Ph.D. in law with honors.
Yeah, Mr. Moran, if this continues to go downhill, I'm required by law to notify Child Protective Services.
She's a criminal protected by the law.
We are bound by law and order like everybody else.
Now it is with the law.
Reporting. He laid down the law.
Not without the law - it's a white man!
We will treat you by the law.
The fantasy I have for my future brother-in-law.
John Mayer, you have the right to remain silent. If you do say anything, what you say can be used against you in a court of law.
If it was the first prize, it must have been truly disappointing. Your daughter is very pretty and nice. And your wife also said she's so happy to get to have a really good son-in-law.
I'll give away that position to you, Father. She was someone who could have become your Daughter-in-law.
We should not be wasting valuable police resources on a dog, regardless of its relationship to the sister-in-law of the Mayor.
Excuse me for introducing you to my son-in-law.
In the Middle Ages you were in conflict with the church. Now it is with the law.
We could put the law for treason to good use.

News and current affairs

But the West's key features, democracy and the rule of law, have taken a far more severe battering at the hands of their defenders than by their attackers.
Only when more parents, teachers, and community leaders behave likewise will recruitment of terrorists dry up and law-enforcement authorities receive full cooperation from the populations they police.
The civil rights of the Russian minorities in the Baltics and elsewhere are now enshrined in law, due in no small part to NATO demands.
This state of affairs represents a failure of economics and law that urgently needs to be corrected.
It is heartening that several Nigerian senators have recently been in the forefront of efforts to strengthen the rule of law in the oil sector.
Prisons, I fear, would be full of abusive husbands and, I regret to say, vengeful mothers-in-law.
The law would permit marital rape, limit women's movements - say, for work or study - without male permission, and even make it illegal for a woman to refuse to dress as her husband wishes.
Both houses of Parliament had approved the law, and President Hamid Karzai signed it.
The law now affects only the Shia minority, but threatens to affect pending legislation that could restrict the rights of non-Shia women as well.
The good news for all women, East and West, is that President Karzai, under intense international criticism - and not just Western criticism - changed the law less than one week after the march.
Now it is up to the government to use the judicial system to impose the rule of law.
Improving security and the rule of law must include destroying the opium trade.
At the political level, the UN is the meeting place for 193 member states to negotiate and create international law, as in the important treaty on climate change adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
That will not change until a new consciousness emerges worldwide to persuade states to support binding international law.
Reducing deficits in order to raise the debt ceiling was the right thing to do, but the August 2 law does it in the wrong way.
This means that someone - a husband or mother-in-law - had taken the decision not to send the young woman to the hospital, instead keeping her in inhuman suffering for nearly a week.
Fourth, laws are often arbitrarily applied, and sharia (Islamic law) frequently takes precedence over civil legislation, resulting in widespread impunity for crimes of violence against women.
In short, more law, rather than less, is needed to help stem the violence.