Sentences with law
law
L l - Obscene and threatening phone calls are against the law.
- He was a professor of criminal law at Harvard University law school.
- She has proposed a new law to protect people from being evicted unfairly.
- The bill will become law at the beginning of the year.
- ...the country's liberal political asylum law.
- ...the laws of the Church of England. [+ of]
- Schools are required by law to provide a safe learning environment.
- He's been in and out of trouble with the law for the last 10 years.
- ...inflexible moral laws.
- The laws of nature are absolute.
- For common practice to be so far out of kilter with accepted principle is not in the interests either of the law or of the media.
- SYNONYMY NOTE: law, in its specific application, implies prescription and enforcement by a ruling authority [the law of the land]; a rule may not be authoritatively enforced, but it is generally observed in the interests of order, uniformity, etc. [the rules of golf]; regulation refers to a rule of a group or organization, enforced by authority [military regulations]; a statute is a law enacted by a legislative body; an , ordinance is a local, generally municipal, law; a , canon1 is, strictly, a law of a church, but the term is also used of any rule or principle regarded as true or in conformity with good usage [the canons of taste]
- ...the law of gravity. [+ of]
- A career in law is becoming increasingly attractive to young people.
- He came to Oxford and studied law.
- lawcourt
- A law of etiquette
- The laws of tennis
- His word is law
- The laws of thermodynamics
- To establish law and order
- To resort to law to settle a matter
- Business law
- The law of gravitation, the law of diminishing returns
- The laws of health, a law of grammar
- The law of self-preservation
- The laws of exponents
- The manager laid down the law to the workers.
- The townspeople took the law into their own hands before the sheriff took action.
- By law, one is not allowed to own a wallaby in New York City.
- A new law forbids driving on that road.
- "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.
- Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction. This is one of several laws derived from his general theory expounded in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- Here comes the law — run!