How to Use law and order in a Sentence

law and order

1 of 2 noun
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  • An aging Texas Ranger and a mob thirsty for law and order take their shot(s).
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
  • But even then, Israel will have to contend with the challenge of who will establish law and order in Gaza.
    — Daniel Byman and Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Residents of Manipur say there has been a breakdown of law and order.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • Aaron Moten plays Maximus, a young soldier in the Brotherhood of Steel who believes in the group’s mission to bring law and order to the wasteland.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Trump’s approval rating on law and order has also shot up.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2024
  • So does the abiding trope of a mysterious stranger riding into town to upend law and order, minds and hearts.
    — Celia McGee, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • That is a burning question in Kenya, where the government has pledged to send a police contingent to restore law and order in Haiti.
    — Lenny Rashid Ruvaga, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Zhou Yongkang was an outgoing member of the Politburo Standing Committee, in charge of law and order.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The next president will have two tasks: ending inflation and restoring law and order.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 25 May 2024
  • Americans have for years debated where to draw the line between law and order and the right to confront authority.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2023
  • An old point, but one that cannot be stressed enough: If liberal parties fail to keep law and order, people will turn to illiberal parties to do the job.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Neither Israeli troops nor the Hamas police force is on the streets, leaving citizens prey to a dangerous breakdown of law and order.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Nearly 10 months ago, Henry urged foreign militaries to help restore law and order in Haiti.
    — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The question of who maintains law and order after the conflict is deeply complicated, experts say.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Like deficit spending, disrespect for law and order did not occur overnight whether in Baltimore or in other U.S. cities.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Republicans, however, have seized on the new guidelines, as well record crossings at the southwest border, to portray him as weak on law and order.
    — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
  • So while the Gaza protests are largely contained to campuses, the far-right Republicans see them as a way to harness that same enthusiasm for law and order.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
  • The party won here in 1995 on promises to end government corruption, impose law and order, and revive the economy.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 29 June 2024
  • The language of the characters reflects their remoteness, as does their cynicism toward law and order.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Adams rejected all that, campaigning more or less exclusively on a platform focused on law and order and cleaning up the streets.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Republicans, however, have seized on the new guidelines, as well as record crossings at the southwestern border, to portray him as weak on law and order.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • The President cites a threat to law and order, and federal agents are dispatched to disrupt protests in the nation’s capital, using tear gas and a military helicopter.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Their fealty to the President, Nayib Bukele, was total, as was his commitment to an indefinite campaign of law and order based on mass arrests.
    — Amada Torruella, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Still, with all our successful efforts to provide law and order, the impacts of the Biden administration’s open border policies have made their way to Florida.
    — Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Earlier in the year, Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back against abolishing cash bail in his legislative law and order proposal.
    — Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
  • But, properly understood, law and order is golden, and crucial.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Others, including agriculture, health, and law and order, are the responsibility of the states.
    — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Her family said a lax approach to law and order, coupled with a high recidivism rate, continues to put unsuspecting victims in harm's way.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • In October, Kenya agreed to lead a multinational security force and send 1,000 police officers to Haiti to help restore law and order.
    — Pierre Esperance, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2024
  • French centrists are calling for more law and order, and Norwegian conservatives have discussed keeping refugees in camps abroad, rather than offering them shelter in Norway.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
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law-and-order

2 of 2 adjective
  • But somewhere since his days as a law-and-order mayor, Giuliani appears to have gone over to the dark side.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
  • Then in 2019 the electorate voted in Nayib Bukele on a law-and-order platform.
    — Eduardo Gamarra, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Then there's Willem Dafoe as a former actor, Wolf Jackson, now dead and with a large chunk of his skull exposed, who serves as the ghouls’ force for law-and-order.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
  • His campaign has focused on law-and-order, school choice and reforming the city's finances.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • First-place finisher Paul Vallas, who ran on a law-and-order platform, got nearly twice as many votes.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Arizona always enforces a special brand of law-and-order.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • He was given the post of interior minister, the first politician with Communist roots in that law-and-order post.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • After the tragedy, Avant became a vocal supporter of Caruso’s law-and-order platform.
    — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
  • Boudreaux has been spotlighting his decades of law-and-order experience and is promising to harden the nation's porous border.
    — CBS News, 21 May 2024
  • To the new city leadership recently elected in Seattle, many of whom had run on law-and-order campaigns, Mr. Hudson has become an example to be made.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 29 May 2024
  • Spitzer has long branded himself as a law-and-order district attorney and has been vocal about the issue of retail and residential theft.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Critics say a fierce law-and-order approach could undermine public health goals and advances in addiction treatment.
    — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • If the left saw the shooting as typifying a government with a tough law-and-order agenda, the right stepped up its denunciations on Thursday of the protests that left cars, schools and government buildings in flames overnight.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • Advertisement But until then, there’s definitely a new campaign slogan for law-and-order Republicans: Trump, putting guns back in the hands of felons.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • Touting her tenure as a prosecutor confirms her intellect and signals that Harris wants to be seen as a law-and-order candidate.
    — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Hill's law-and-order message prevailed over the restorative-justice message of his Democratic opponent in the general election.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Announcing a snap national election for the end of June, Macron has set up a showdown between his pro-European, centrist and pro-Ukrainian ideals and the anti-immigration, populist and hard-line law-and-order rhetoric of the far right.
    — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 10 June 2024
  • Soon, citizens worried about law-and-order issues began to see him as a viable alternative to the establishment.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Who is Paul Vallas? Vallas is a former schools executive who has positioned himself as a law-and-order candidate.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • By focusing on a law-and-order message while defending the right to free speech, Biden is grasping for a middle ground on an intensely divisive issue in the middle of his reelection campaign.
    — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 2 May 2024
  • Paul Vallas, a former schools executive, is campaigning largely on a pro-police law-and-order message.
    — Julie Bosman, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The push does not only come from Trump, suggesting how his contentious views toward federal law enforcement have shaped a party that has long promoted itself as the protector of law-and-order.
    — Nicholas Riccardi, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Though public concerns over crime have gripped San Francisco in recent years, adding fuel to last year’s district attorney recall campaign and pushing top officials to adopt more law-and-order stances.
    — Summer Lin Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Hyman is campaigning as a law-and-order Republican who will take a tough stance on crime and work collaboratively with law enforcement.
    — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 29 July 2024
  • This is clearly reflected in a recent New York Times poll of Republicans, where only 17% supported an anti-woke campaign, while 65% supported a law-and-order campaign.
    — Raymond Scheppach, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Roberto Arzú, a conservative law-and-order candidate, was barred for allegedly started his campaign too early.
    — Time, 25 June 2023
  • While there is no suggestion that Mr. Adams is under criminal investigation, the cases are not the first to place the mayor, who touts his law-and-order credentials, in the awkward position of having to explain his conduct or that of his associates.
    — William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Republicans supporting Kelly's campaign for Supreme Court also sought to include a law-and-order issue on the ballot to potentially energize the party's voters.
    — Hunter Turpin, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Aubry’s stepping down at the end of this year, though, providing an opening for Monserrate, who’s campaigning on a law-and-order agenda that echoes the priorities of his former state Senate colleague and onetime political ally, Mayor Adams.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024
  • Roosevelt’s law-and-order strategy was successful because of its distinctive place in his overall program of redefining liberalism and the government’s role in Americans’ lives.
    — Anthony Gregory / Made By History, TIME, 23 July 2024

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