Sentence examples for a law down from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a law down" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be a misinterpretation or a fragment of a larger phrase.
Example: "The government decided to lay down a law to regulate the industry."
Alternatives: "establish a law" or "set a law".

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I don't think any of us know what constitutes a violation of a law down there".

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Should Congress approve legislation revising the spousal definitions statute or should a court strike the law down, Mr. Shinseki added, the V.A. would swiftly adjust its policy.

To a degree rare in the dusty archives of the Supreme Court, Kennedy's opinion striking the law down is a pleasure, even a thrill, to read.

Say the court were to strike the law down, with a majority of the four liberals plus Justice Kennedy.

In flashbacks, it emerges that she is despised by her peers because she brought the law down on a late-summer party by calling 911.

It also calls on parliament to pass a law laying down how this should be done.

In 2006, a fierce outcry prompted Turkey to pass a law clamping down on credit card marketers.

It's become a dreaded label for the NGO sector in Russia since Vladimir Putin introduced a law clamping down on organisations who receive funding from abroad.

As a state legislator, he co-wrote a law cracking down on ethnic studies, and as superintendent he decided that Tucson's district was violating it.

In 45 bce he enacted a law laying down a standard pattern for the constitutions of the municipia, which were by this time the units of local self-government in most of the territory inhabited by Roman citizens.

Jubilee is a Catholic term derived from the Hebrew word yobel, a law handed down by Moses requiring that slaves be freed and debts forgiven every 50 years.

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