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Lawlessness

Lawlessness meaning

A lack of law; a lack of law and order; anarchy. | Defiance of the law; outlawry, exorbitant levels of crime.

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Alderman Brendan Reilly, whose ward includes the Loop, said the violence is lawlessness on the part of teens looking to score points on social media.

America's descent toward lawlessness is most visible at retail stores in progressive metro areas.

A Solomonic monarch is theoretically the last supposed lone bulwark against mobs, bureaucracy, avarice, internal ethnic strife, lawlessness, foreign predation, and injustice.

Everyone is so on edge today because of the madness and lawlessness they see on TV and the Internet.

Expressing disappointment over the continued invasion and killings of Benue citizens by the terrorists, Ortom said the people of Benue state are fed up with this kind of lawlessness that is going on.

Guze added that, unlike some other cities seeing crime spikes, soft-on-crime prosecutors are not playing a role in Raleigh’s murder spike and that he’s not aware of any laws at the state level that would encourage this type of lawlessness.

He also echoed calls by the boss of for more to be done to protect workers from attacks and blamed complacent authorities which have 'allowed' lawlessness.

He said SA’s crisis was manifest in the evident collapse in aspects of governance at various levels and “lawlessness that prevails with impunity for the corrupt who loot state resources”.

However, the impunity with which the constitution was abused, and desecrated could become an irredeemable national embarrassment which illegitimacy is capable of birthing cold lawlessness.

Lawlessness has been a term used to describe the downtown core of Lethbridge in recent years, but that could all change now that city council has approved a new taskforce.

Lee’s distraught friends and colleagues in the tech world quickly linked his death to the city’s “lawlessness” and recidivism.

Marcos Sr. declared martial law over the country on September 21, 1972 to supposedly quell lawlessness in the country.

Meanwhile Holden’s chief of staff Daniel Kurzyna, in an email Tuesday, stressed the councilman never referenced crime, only “lawlessness” in his remarks.

Our posterity means far more than the feelings of individual non-whites (blacks) who are correctly racial profiled for their collective lawlessness.

The dystopian action flick, which envisioned an Australia verging on lawlessness due to a worldwide oil shortage, became a box office sensation on the strength of its calamitous, perilously practical high-speed car chases and fiery crashes.

The lawlessness of the Outer Rim Territories in particular allows for criminal organizations to rise to power and spread their corrupt influence to even the Core Worlds.

The political void left by the killing has led to a surge in violence and lawlessness across Haiti.

The same display of lawlessness and lack of regard for rule of law occurred when the same men of the DSS sealed up the premises of the EFCC in Lagos.

TORONTO — When Mark Saunders launched his bid for mayor of Toronto, the former police chief positioned himself as the only candidate who could save a city plagued by "out-of-control" lawlessness.

With growing lawlessness and intensified fighting across the country, the anti-narcotics efforts of certain ethnic armed groups and the Myanmar authorities have been hampered.