Sentence examples for outright lawlessness from inspiring English sources

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McWane's conduct, he said, amounts to a pattern of "resistance, recalcitrance and denial, if not outright lawlessness".

A further collapse would threaten European security by creating a giant new zone of outright lawlessness and by inviting a Russian intervention.

After the long march toward the rule of law China has been tentatively treading since the end of the Mao era, this return to outright lawlessness is shocking even to a hardened dissident like me.

Sillitoe's characters were that much more anarchic and tatterdemalion, their solidarity only the low-level defiance of the street that bands together against the tallyman or the police detective and frequently descends into outright lawlessness.

This might be unexpected commentary from Fox News, which has previously suggested that the Environmental Protection Agency was engaging in "outright lawlessness" when it set limits on greenhouse gas pollution.

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The lawlessness.

"This outrageous act tops off a chronic pattern of lawlessness, throughout this case, by judges and politicians hellbent on thwarting the vote of the people to redefine marriage by any means, even outright corruption," he said in a statement.

Lawlessness has declined.

"This is not lawlessness.

Lawlessness is routine.

Soweto descended into lawlessness.

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