Use "lawlessness" in a sentence

1. It harkened back to an era of romantic lawlessness, the drug wars, probably generations before his time

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2. Could you imagine the chaos and lawlessness if they disappeared completely? Who will you then run to in order to complain? Do you seriously think that your lawyers’ letters will help protect you against a criminal? My friend, go a little north in Africa and see what a corrupt police force actually looks like before pointing fingers

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3. It was a period of complete chaos and lawlessness, lack of leadership, lack of security and justice

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4. A belief that equates wealth with “natural virtue” and poverty with sin inevitably fails to punish the wealthy for their crimes, and leads to a culture of lawlessness among financial elites

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5. War was lawlessness in itself, a grandiose lawless fair where people died horribly and for reasons beyond their understanding; a time when nothing mattered more than victory

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6. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow

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7. now, because of our sin and lawlessness, we should all under-

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8. Lord, and how 5 are its beams defiled on Earth? And the angel said to me, because it beholds the lawlessness and unrighteousness of

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9. aid in the present crisis, and not wink at such overweening lawlessness

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10. both changed the manner of living of the people, and perverted their civil customs into all lawlessness

11. And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from Heaven and saw much blood being shed on the Earth, and all lawlessness being brought onto the Earth; And they said one to another: 'The ground made without inhabitant cries the voice of their crying up to the gates of Heaven; And now to you, the holy ones of Heaven, the souls of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause before the Most High

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12. 1 The men took me on to the fifth Heaven and placed me, and there I saw many and countless soldiers, called Grigori, of human appearance, and their size was greater than that of great giants and their faces withered, and the silence of their mouths perpetual, and their was no service on the fifth Heaven, and I said to the men who were with me: 2 therefore are these very withered and their faces melancholy, and their mouths silent; and therefore is there no service on this Heaven? 3 And they said to me: These are the Grigori, who with their prince Satanail rejected the Lord of light, and after them are those who are held in great darkness on the second Heaven, and three of them went down on to Earth from the Lord's throne, to the place Ermon, and broke through their vows on the shoulder of the hill Ermon and saw the daughters of men how good they are, and took for themselves wives, and befouled the Earth with their deeds, who in all times of their age made lawlessness and mixing, and giants are born and marvellous big men and great enmity

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13. M: I never meant to say that lawlessness follows self-

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14. And then Michael Uriel Raphael and Gabriel looked down from Heaven and saw much blood being shed on the Earth and all lawlessness being brought onto the Earth; And they said one to another: 'The ground made without inhabitant cries the voice of their crying up to the gates of Heaven; And now to you the holy ones of Heaven the souls of men make their suit saying "Bring our cause before the Most High

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15. 1 The men took me on to the fifth Heaven and placed me and there I saw many and countless soldiers called Grigori of human appearance and their size was greater than that of great giants and their faces withered and the silence of their mouths perpetual and their was no service on the fifth Heaven and I said to the men who were with me: 2 therefore are these very withered and their faces melancholy and their mouths silent; and therefore is there no service on this Heaven? 3 And they said to me: These are the Grigori who with their prince Satanail rejected the Lord of light and after them are those who are held in great darkness on the second Heaven and three of them went down on to Earth from the Lord's throne to the place Ermon and broke through their vows on the shoulder of the hill Ermon and saw the daughters of men how good they are and took for themselves wives and befouled the Earth with their deeds who in all times of their age made lawlessness and mixing and giants are born and marvellous big men and great enmity

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16. The lawlessness of individual tyrannies will be enhanced, not checked, by a supranational power

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17. 1 And he took me and led me towards the west; and when the time of the setting came I saw again the bird coming before it and as soon as lie came I saw the angels and they lifted the crown 2 3 from its head; But the bird stood exhausted and with wings contracted; And beholding these things I said Lord how did they lift the crown from the head of the sun and how is 4 the bird so exhausted? And the angel said to me The crown of the sun when it has run through the day-four angels take it and bear it up to Heaven and renew it because it and its rays have been defiled on Earth; moreover it is so renewed each day; And I Baruch said Lord and how 5 are its beams defiled on Earth? And the angel said to me because it beholds the lawlessness and unrighteousness of men namely fornications adulteries thefts extortions idolatries drunkenness murders strife jealousies evil-speakings murmurings whisperings divinations and such like which are not well-pleasing to God

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18. “You are from the far south where a certain lawlessness has prevailed!” Myserrah began when out of the hearing range of others

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19. 27 Yet even his own officers when they saw this joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power to aid in the present crisis and not wink at such overweening lawlessness

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20. 19 And he both changed the manner of living of the people and perverted their civil customs into all lawlessness

21. 5 And how will this be beloved? If our mind be established by faith toward God; if we seek out what is pleasant and acceptable in his sight; if we perform such things as harmonize with his blameless will and follow in the way of truth casting from us all unrighteousness and lawlessness covetousness strife malice and fraud whispering and evil speaking hatred of God pride and insolence vainglory and churlishness

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22. kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42

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23. “They aren’t worth much, but they are all that stands between us and lawlessness

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24. The Conservatives blamed all this lawlessness on the current administration

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25. Genocide is the sign of lawlessness and lacks moral value in any conflict

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26. and healthy body, but with a mature mind that has no tendency towards lawlessness or

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27. come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is

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28. Moreover our nation is suffering from endless poverty, unemployment, and lawlessness

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29. You understand that a spirit of rebellion and lawlessness, an anti-Christ spirit that opposes what is godly, is at work, and under the guise of: firstly men and women being equal; then it goes on, and it begins to start to promote this equality teaching all the way through to demanding rights, demanding equality; whereas the Bible's perspective is: responsibilities and roles

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30. The jungle had been reduced to cropland, but the wars and lawlessness of the 21st century had all but extinguished humans from the Amazon

31. " Will anyone tell me there is no inward danger, when the real presence, and the Romish confessional, and ecclesiastical lawlessness, and Home Rule, are quietly tolerated on one side, and the atonement, and Christ's divinity, and the inspiration of Scripture, and the reality of miracles, are coolly thrown overboard on the other? Will anyone tell me there is no outward danger, when infidels, Papists, and Dissenters are hungering and thirsting after the destruction of the Establishment, and compassing sea and land to accomplish their ends?�What Z no danger, when myriads of our working classes never enter the walls of our Church, and would not raise a finger to keep her alive, while by household suffrage they have got all power into their hands! What! no danger, when the Irish Church has been disestablished, the Act of Union has been trampled underfoot, Protestant endowments have been handed over to Papists, the thin edge of the wedge for severing Church and State has been let in, and the statesman who did all this is still alive, and thought by many to be infallible

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32. Rather than injustice and lawlessness

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33. purpose of evil and lawlessness

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34. emergence into a new paradigm has the appearance of lawlessness, since one is, per se, senseless and hence perceptionless

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35. Unequal justice systems are overthrown and their collapse produces anarchy, where the lawlessness of self-rule is a wild state

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36. 'With so many disruptive elements in town there is the danger of lawlessness

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37. He started to speak, and then paused, but then composed himself to say, “In the middle of this cruel desert of oppression and lawlessness, I’m trying to keep the flame of history, science, the truth, alive

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38. His cowardly act of lawlessness destroyed a prospering family

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39. Again the taxpayer will pay for this lawlessness

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40. Then the viewers would have become even more afraid of lawlessness, and voted in more strongmen like Mussolini and supported Bush even more avidly

41. The Scriptures warn us that in the last days that there would be an increase in lawlessness and deception as Satan prepares this world for the ultimate deception – The Antichrist

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42. first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed, the son of destruction

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43. and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself

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44. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, only he who now restrains will do so

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45. It was everyone for themselves as lawlessness rose unchecked, along with the sins against humanity that it racked up with the passing of every new day

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46. unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of

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47. apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of

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48. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at

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49. for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed, the son of destruction

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50. "Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God

51. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way

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52. 'The mystery, or secret doctrine, of lawlessness doth already work ’ (2 Thess

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53. lawlessness and death by disease and warfare culminating in the complete disintegration of

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54. For the mystery of lawlessness is already working; only there is one that restrains now, until he be taken out of the way

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55. Paul said, "The mystery of lawlessness is already working"

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56. Maidens and modesty, as I have said, wandered at will alone and unattended, without fear of insult from lawlessness or libertine assault, and if they were undone it was of their own will and pleasure

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57. Yes, he said; the lawlessness of which you speak too easily steals in

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58. The students of the art are filled with lawlessness

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59. It becomes a sheepdog that fights with the savagery and lawlessness of a wolf

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60. After one Montero there would be another, the lawlessness of a populace of all colours and races, barbarism, irremediable tyranny

61. First of all, the word had no sense for cultured minds, to whom the narrowness of every belief is odious; and secondly, in connection with the everlasting troubles of this unhappy country it was hopelessly besmirched; it had been the cry of dark barbarism, the cloak of lawlessness, of crimes, of rapacity, of simple thieving

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62. And the first magistrate explained to Charles Gould that now the province was stripped of troops any outbreak of lawlessness would find the authorities with their boots off, as it were

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63. They were equals before the lawlessness of the land

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64. The mention of the dignity and neutrality of the flag, so difficult to preserve in his position, "right in the thick of these events between the lawlessness of that piratical villain Sotillo and the more regularly established but scarcely less atrocious tyranny of his Excellency Don Pedro Montero," came next in order

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65. But you’re a part of the lawlessness now; it can’t hurt you

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66. “Why should a poor Man hang fer stealin’ a Sheep or a Horse? Why should a poor Man hang fer stealin’ five Shillin’s worth o’ Toys from a Toy-Shop, or cuttin’ off a Watch from a Pretty Fellow that hath ten gold Watches if he hath one? Hath not that self-same Pretty Fellow stolen yer Daughter’s Honour or the Fruits o’ the Land where yer Father labour’d? Why should the Sweat o’ yer Father’s Brow be worth nothin’ an’ the Pretty Fellow’s Watch be worth yer Neck in the Noose? Why should it be call’d Lawlessness an’ Highway Robbery when a poor Man steals what he needs to eat an’ yet be call’d Fine Manners when a rich Man steals the Sweat o’ the poor Man’s Brow? Doth not God Himself say ‘Consider the Lilies o’ the Field’ an’ how little they toil an’ sweat? Yet He provides fer ’em! Why not likewise fer the Poor? Are the Rich alone God’s Lilies an’ the Poor nought but Clods o’ Mud?”

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67. Various terrorist groups would use the lawlessness and lack of cohesion as cover, but the Afghans themselves posed less of a threat than most people suspected

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68. "Not half a mile," was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so much in love as to measure distance, or reckon time, with feminine lawlessness

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69. As we have already said, when the plundering began, even the severest prohibitions scarcely availed to check the reign of lawlessness

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70. “Lawlessness and insubordination reached their climax; there was no thought of discipline, and obedience was out of the question

71. The continual arrival of more vehicles behind those that had been abandoned intensified the prevailing lawlessness and disorder

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72. a latent desire for lawlessness

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73. But this thirst for lawlessness proceeds most frequently, perhaps, from a latent craving for discipline and ' seemliness'—(I am using your own words)

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74. But would it not be on the contrary a truer conclusion, that a multitude of unquestionably aristocratic Russian famiUes are with irresistible force passing in masses into exceptional famihes and mingling with them in the general lawlessness and chaos

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75. come, then a future artist will discover beautiful forms for depicting past lawlessness and chaos

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76. In every man, of course, a demon lies hidden—the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the tortured victim, the demon of lawlessness let off the chain, the demon of diseases that follow on vice, gout, kidney disease, and so on

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77. And well it is that they stand aside, but maybe they will cease one day to do so and will form a firm wall confronting the hurrying apparition and will check the frenzied rush of our lawlessness, for the sake of their own safety, enlightenment and civilization

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78. But as it is, the consciousness of the lawlessness of my life is shameful and depressing

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79. He should see the whole lawlessness of the life of the rich, he should live as a watchman of an apple-orchard on a rich estate with a lawn-tennis

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80. [a19] Again he is “ashamed and depressed because of the consciousness of the lawlessness of his life

81. The lawlessness of it was beyond any words Lillian knew

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82. A different state of society existed, thirty or forty years ago, when another American poet went to England; and we advise our readers, who have leisure at their command, to compare it with the present social lawlessness of the upper classes among the English

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83. The resolutions adopted were three: the first, in emphatic terms, rebuked lawlessness and riot; the second, in terms equally emphatic, endorsed the missionary work among the Chinese; the third set forth the perils attending Chinese immigration, and urged some modification of the Burlingame treaty and the adoption of any other just measures which may restrict this immigration

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