Sentence examples for lawlessness for from inspiring English sources

A night of lawlessness, for the Corn King, the Green Man, could copulate with whomsoever he pleased.

But snatching foreigners, on land and on sea, has become one of the biggest money-making industries in Somalia, which has been steeped in lawlessness for 18 years.

Despite being a fighting mufti during the first Chechen war, which lasted from 1994-96 and ended with de facto independence (and lawlessness) for Chechnya, Kadyrov threw in his lot with the Russians in 1999.

The German tribes did not succumb to the Roman Empire but remained outside its laws, and, for all the achievements and decorum of contemporary Germans, a potential for lawlessness — for going beyond the merely decent and workable — still hangs in the air.

Ralph Reed blasted "left-wing bullies" for allegedly forcing Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to veto an anti-gay bill and said that Attorney General Eric Holder had engaged in a "brazen act of lawlessness" for counseling state attorneys general not to defend marriage-equality bans (though Reed did concede to me in an interview that a federal marriage amendment is a dead issue).

"What's that movie where there's complete lawlessness and anarchy for one night a year?" Carson said, calmly resting his right hand over his left.

"We've been through hurricanes here, many of them, where lawlessness prevails for a short period of time.

Johannesburg, a turbulent city with a fearsome reputation for lawlessness, is fertile ground for a crime writer, and South African author MD Villiers makes the most of it in her first novel.

They are reminding their representatives that replacing federal immigration policy with a crazy quilt of state-led enforcement schemes is only a recipe for more lawlessness and social disruption, for expensive lawsuits and busted budgets, lost jobs and boycotts.

Many cities were known for lawlessness and grot; not surprisingly, holiday-makers were passing them up for greener spots.

This leaves plenty of wide-open spaces for interpretation and perhaps for the projection of our own conflicted feelings about the relative merits of law and rowdy, hell-for-leather lawlessness.