Sentence examples for lawlessness prevails from inspiring English sources
A sort of irreverent lawlessness prevails.
"We've been through hurricanes here, many of them, where lawlessness prevails for a short period of time.
There is evidence that Qaeda members are returning to Afghanistan, where thousands of Taliban supporters still live and lawlessness prevails.
All those achievements have since collapsed: literacy and education have dropped precipitously across the south, child marriage has returned and lawlessness prevails.
Andrew Pulver Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Set in a near-future in a disintegrating city, where lawlessness prevails and citizens scratch a living from the debris, this dystopia is the journal of an unnamed middle-class narrator who fosters street-kid Emily and observes the decaying world from her window.
Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French defence minister, made the announcement a day after the UN warned of possible civil war in the CAR, where lawlessness prevails and armed groups have been accused of atrocities including killings, burning villages and the conscription of child soldiers.
Before long, a "sense of lawlessness" prevailed at City Hall.
From 2008 to 2010, the event took place at Kutsher's Country Club, secluded in the Catskills, and because there was no local community to protect, security felt invisible; thus, a peaceful and discreet lawlessness prevailed.
A general lawlessness prevailed in the vast Texas frontier, and Mexico's civic laws went largely unenforced.
They wield an unflinching hand, to the point of conducting public executions, against the lawlessness that prevails in the region.
