How to Use higher law in a Sentence
higher law
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The highest law enforcement officer in the state should step in now and say that he's got this.
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Marcos Bretón,
sacbee,
2018-04-21
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AG Barr is the highest law enforcement officer & the worst.
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Breanna Edwards,
Essence,
2019-10-02
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Bitcoin can get by without banks or governments because algorithms are its highest law.
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Joshua Oliver,
Slate Magazine,
2018-01-05
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Because protecting the people of the United States should be our highest law.
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Kelsey Stiegman,
Seventeen,
2018-03-26
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So, too, must be praise and blame. That the highest law in the land outlines this arrangement is, by itself, reason enough to demand it be followed to the letter.
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Charles C. W. Cooke,
National Review,
2020-04-16
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But there is a potential cost to tarnishing the reputations of the nation’s highest law-enforcement agencies and officials.
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Peter Nicholas,
WSJ,
2018-05-29
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Those looking to unseat the first black woman to hold the county's highest law enforcement position, have blasted her handling of the matter as haphazard and indecisive.
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Don Babwin,
Anchorage Daily News,
2020-02-11
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But last week, Manhattan prosecutors were surprised to receive a letter from the second-highest law enforcement official in the country inquiring about Manafort’s case.
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Katie Benner,
BostonGlobe.com,
2019-06-18
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And where abolitionists preached slavery as a violation against the higher law, Southerners angrily countered with their own version of the deity, that it was sanctioned by the Constitution.
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Maureen Dowd,
New York Times,
2017-10-11
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