Sentence examples for has been lawless from inspiring English sources

For years, Michoacán, the state where Lázaro Cárdenas is located, has been lawless.

But the price has been lawless zones where banditry and illegal-drug production are rife.

The aim of the gathering will be to hammer out a plan to improve stability in Somalia, which for more than 20 years has been lawless and beset by pirate gangs, rival clan militias and Islamist terrorists.

Even two of the dissenters in Citizens United itself said the state court's decision had been lawless impudence.

The Sinai peninsula, the easternmost part of Egypt abutting Israel, has been increasingly lawless since the fall of Hosni Mubarak a year-and-a-half ago.

Forest elephants have suffered particularly badly because they range across central Africa, which has been left lawless in large areas by war, and where poachers have ready access to guns.

NAIROBI, Kenya — The president of Somalia's transitional government on Thursday appointed a Harvard-educated prime minister who said he would try to revive Somalia's war-wrecked economy and establish better security in a country that has been virtually lawless for 20 years.

The country has been virtually lawless since rebels seized the capital and ousted the president in March.

Estimates suggest there are more than 500,000 guns in Somalia, which has been largely lawless for the last 24 years, he says.

"This whole role-model thing has been an accident," Lawless said.

Besides the Cairo bloodshed, some of the worst violence has been in the lawless Sinai peninsula, which borders Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, where Islamist militants have attacked security forces almost daily.