Synonym: act, decree, edict, formula, ordinance, principle, proclamation, regulation, rule, standard. Similar words: lawn, lawsuit, lawmaker. Meaning: [lɔː] n. 1. legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity 2. the collection of rules imposed by authority 3. a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature 4. a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society 5. the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system 6. the force of policemen and officers 7. the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do.
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91. The new law removed the last vestiges of royal power.
92. He first dabbled in politics when he was at law school.
93. Environmental impact reports are required under many circumstances by federal and state law.
93. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
94. It is the business of the police to prevent and detect crime and of the law courts to punish crime.
95. To hedge around a partnership of love with control by law would be to destroy its base of trust in one another.
96. An adult under British law is someone over 18 years old.
97. The major recommendation is for a change in the law.
98. It's difficult to quantify how many people will be affected by the change in the law.
99. In Sweden it is against the law to hit a child.
100. We need to consider how the law might be reformed.
101. Several countries have expressed their strong disapproval of the law.
102. According to traditions, the selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years.
103. The change in the law makes the previous agreement null and void.
104. Pressure is mounting on the government to change the law.
105. The crime will be treated with the full rigor of the law.
106. The government was defeated in its attempt to pass the law by an opposition ambush.
107. Parents are obliged by law to send their children to school.
108. He had been circumcised within eight days of birth as required by Jewish law.
109. According to present law, the authorities can only punish smugglers with small fines.
110. The law holds parents liable if a child does not attend school.
111. The law obliges parents to send their children to school.
112. The government brought in a controversial law under which it could take any land it wanted.
113. Party members fought side by side with trade unionists for a change in the law.
114. Bands of law breakers used to rage through the town, shooting and robbing.
115. Granted that the firm has not broken the law, is the law what it should be?
116. He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.
117. As a police officer you are expected to uphold the law whether you agree with it or not.
118. Life imprisonment is defined as 60 years under state law.
119. Unintelligible legislation is the negation of the rule of law and of parliamentary democracy.
120. There has been a sharp decrease in pollution since the law was introduced.