Sentence examples for lawless elements from inspiring English sources

Over the decades, the lawless elements have been corralled for the most part.

Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes declared in Manila that the soldiers were "pursuing certain lawless elements, principally the kidnap-for-ransom groups".

A senior Western diplomat said "the Aristide government was madly distributing weapons into the hands of lawless elements" as the rebels seized half the country last month.

"We are battling these Pentagon criminals, lawless elements, and if these other groups get in the way, we have to take countermeasures against them".

After the Mexican War they served as a state constabulary organized along military lines, maintaining law and order against the Indians and against bandits and other lawless elements.

"Strengthen management of the Internet, enhance guidance of opinion, purify the environment on the Internet, give no opportunities that lawless elements can seize on," it said.

There was a "lawless element" within the convoy that threw stones at the police and shouted obscenities.

"We've got a lot more of a lawless element," said Barry Nelson, chief ranger for the Bureau of Land Management in Barstow.

Israel's leaders are growing concerned about Syria's stockpiles of chemical weapons falling into the hands of rogue groups equally opposed to Israel; about the prospect of throngs of refugees appearing at the border; and about the Golan itself "turning into a lawless area where terror elements might also operate," as Mr. Barak put it.

It's New York City in the lawless 1970s, a setting whose phantasmagoric elements are richly exploited by Hallberg, and the book culminates in the blackout of 1977, in which the city was consumed by looting and arson.

The arrests and accusations, which combined elements of homegrown terrorism with concerns about the lawless Afghanistan-Pakistan boregionegion, shook Germany's sense of calm.