Sentence examples for of lynch law from inspiring English sources

It's some sort of lynch law.

This cultural nationalism, invariably directed against the English, has no illusions as to what Emerson will go on to call (quite cheerfully) "the power of lynch law, of soldiers and pirates", of bullies of every variety.

In the Republican Party at this moment, "'tis the power of Lynch law, of soldiers and pirates; and it bullies the peaceable and loyal".

Lynch law is the order of the day, both in people's minds and in their actions.

Because "our system is not lynch law.

During the American Revolution, John's patriot brother, Charles, set up an irregular court and imposed savage penalties on Tories, giving rise to the expressions "lynch law" and lynching.

In books such as Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892) and The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States (1895), Wells did more than examine the stories, narratives, and realities of lynching; she consistently linked them to the historical and societal forces that had produced this epidemic of violence and vigilantism.

To make clear my abhorrence of lynching, I said in February that I'd vote for the resolution apologizing for the Senate's failure in 1937 to pass an anti-lynching law.

Vigilante murders of African Americans were on the rise through the 1920s and '30s and into the '50s, and a federal anti-lynch law would have allowed U.S. attorneys to prosecute mob violence even though the states almost never did.

Those words of Vere sum up the simple, lynch-law brutality of Britten's 1951 opera, which opened in a stark new production by David Alden at the Coliseum on Monday.

Thatcher notably denounced "an international lynch-law which, under the guise of defending human rights, now threatens to subvert British justice and the rights of sovereign nations".