Sentence examples for example of lawlessness from inspiring English sources

But to the New York Police Department, the marchers represented a visible, messy example of lawlessness.

Tony Perkins, of the Family Research Council, called the new policy an example of "lawlessness," as if it would be law-loving for the federal government to seek out ways to dodge the Supreme Court's injunctions, to leave in place shortcuts around people's basic rights, or to make committed families live in gray areas.

But to the New York Police Department, the protesters represented something else: a visible example of lawlessness akin to that which had resulted in destruction and violence at other anticapitalist demonstrations, like the Group of 20 economic summit meeting in London in 2009 and the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999.

Christie lists a series of examples of "lawlessness in America and around the world" during Obama's presidency.

Piazza Bologna used to be an example of how lawlessness permeated life in Palermo, in ways big and small.

"We're talking about a kidnapping of a Russian national from a third country," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, calling the "forcible and secret relocation of our national" an example of "open lawlessness".

From the safe remove of a television screen, the bedlam that erupted following the grand jury's failure to indict Darren Wilson, in November, was commonly derided as an example of black lawlessness.

At first, the attempted murder of a travel agent by two gunmen on motorbikes seemed to be just another grim example of the lawlessness that plagues San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in Honduras – and one of the most of the most violent in the world.

Anxious to promote a violent understanding of jihad and believed by some to be responsible for Mr Stevens's death, Ansar al-Sharia is only one example of militia lawlessness.

For some of them, the fact that Jesus healed the man on the Sabbath, a day of rest, is just another example of his lawlessness.

In an irony of fantastic proportions, the best example of Cruz' lawlessness comes via former Republican president Richard Nixon, the man whom Cruz most resembles from among our pantheon of past presidents.