His mysteriously glowing, cartoonish narrative paintings of abandoned cars and buildings, street crime and drug abuse were apt for a community on what were then the fringes of law-abiding civilization.
The "shadow government" is made up of second-tier figures.The difficulty is that Mr López Obrador's supporters also include radical groups on the fringes of the law of the kind that have helped to bring the southern city of Oaxaca, an erstwhile tourist magnet, to a halt over the past five months as demonstrators struggle to oust an unpopular and thuggish state governor.
Ms. Monahan and Mr. Johnson said they thought that the Hague regulations, intended to safeguard adoptions better, would eventually weed out agencies that operated on the fringes of the law.
Pulling these threads together, Cirugeda and his team – often working on the fringes of the law – use rapid building techniques, recycled materials and volunteer labour on abandoned municipal land for projects that people need.
Morningside, as many facilities do in the State of California, was operating on the fringes of the law by independently contracting work from physicians.
After a long process, I joined the "Programme for the Prevention of Recruitment and Use of Boys, Girls and Adolescents by Organized Armed Groups on the Fringes of the Law", run by the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare.
The eviction of Monster Island — home to two nonprofit performance spaces, a screen-printing shop, a surf shop, a recording studio and several artists' studios — is a reminder that the city is always remaking itself, and nowhere is that more true than in the world of underground music, where performance spots and galleries operate with little cash, often on the fringe of the law.
At the time, it was an opinion from the fringes of respectability -- what law school dean, I was asked, would dare say there were too many lawyers.
On the fringes of the empire, though, the law went unheeded.
