So many people I talked to in the Gulf said living on the bayou is hard, but they stay because they love it -- in a fierce and abiding way.
For officials, the Christie case brought into sharp relief the abiding way in which the police and other officials had repeatedly conflated prostitution with petty crime and a range of other sexually illicit practices, including pornography, street-walkers, brothels, and abortion.
Allowing prisoners to vote could be a worthwhile attempt at getting those who feel removed from society to participate in a more law-abiding way.
"The Manhattan district attorney's office fully supports the tradition of civil disobedience and that all individuals have the right to protest, if they do so in a law-abiding way," Michele Bayer, an assistant district attorney, said in court.
At 4.30pm last Thursday, mobile phones in Shanghai buzzed with a text-message from the municipal security office calling on local people to show their love for their country in a law-abiding way.
Referring to protests outside the summit the prime minister said: "You will see a few people beating up cars and people behaving in a way that's nothing to do with the millions of people, decent people, who want to make their protests in a law-abiding way".
"If we can get criminals to return to a law-abiding way of life, we stop them committing more crime against more victims".
An astonishing bit of contemporary propaganda, "Message from Mississippi," tells the world that all is well in the Magnolia State: "Out of the statewide pattern of segregation, mutual respect and cooperation among the races has arisen a productive, law-abiding way of life".
"Message From Mississippi," an astonishing work of delusional contemporary propaganda seen here, tells the world that all is well in the Magnolia State: "Out of the statewide pattern of segregation, mutual respect and cooperation among the races has arisen a productive, law-abiding way of life".
Bulgaria has signally failed to match Romania's new law-abiding ways.
In Stockholm and other towns and cities last week, bands made up mostly of young immigrants set buildings and cars ablaze in a spasm of destructive rage rarely seen in a country proud of its normally tranquil, law-abiding ways.
