Although courts have found such measures to be discriminatory, several states have passed laws requiring voters to present a government-issued ID in order to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“By law, she cannot be excluded. You know that, sir.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra upheld the laws of Rome and sent the accused men back to Italy to stand trial. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

New laws were passed in the slave states and the old laws were more rigidly enforced. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, ironically, here was the law, with its hand on Sergio’s shoulder. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

M31 has two small satellites, dwarf elliptical galaxies bound to it by gravity, by the identical law of physics that tends to keep me in my chair. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The law was as clear as it possibly could be on this question. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My father loved being a lawyer and was a well-regarded practitioner, but the fact is he never liked the business aspect of the law or figured out how to make gobs of money at it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You know what this means, don’t you? She wants to change these laws. Why else would she be carrying them around?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In just over three years of law practice I had become one of those people for whom such small events could make a big difference in my joy quotient. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In those last seconds, as life prepared to leave his body, it withdrew its laws, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I, meanwhile, had been so afraid of floundering, so eager for respectability and a way to pay the bills, that I’d marched myself unthinkingly into the law. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"In this country, it is against the law not to go to school. You want us to get thrown out?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Not that she’s really a criminal, but if they have bad laws....The people from the alternate world think the Gustano kids are hers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A precise statement of this idea is known as the second law of thermodynamics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He directed me to a wood-paneled office with walls lined with law books, school diplomas, and family photographs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never seen such a conflict in law enforcement,” he said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“There is no English law that makes me responsible for those deaths.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He thought nothing of waiting a decade or two after its discovery to publish the inverse square law. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is impossible for law enforcement to identify and arrest everyone who commits a drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Florida Highway Patrol Drug Courier Profile cautioned troopers to be suspicious of “scrupulous obedience to traffic laws.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Jim Crow” laws, dating to the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, upheld white supremacy and kept blacks in their place as second-class citizens. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of politely asking for modest reforms in seating patterns and more courteous behavior from the drivers, why not try to obliterate the segregation laws in court? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The laws prevented Jews from using public parks, swimming pools, concert halls, and transportation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He considered mentioning that his father was in law enforcement. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Paul was growing up, a half generation before Reggie came of age, there was a coming together of these two fundamental computing principles, Moore’s law and Metcalfe’s law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It concluded that Title VI does not provide a “private right of action” to ordinary citizens and civil rights groups; meaning that victims of discrimination can no longer sue under the law. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Fischer never received the notice and therefore couldn’t appeal it, which according to law he had the right to do. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He would have to stretch humanitarianism to the limits of the law, with a stiff punch always in reserve.... Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her parents are not too happy that I switched majors. They heard from their friends I was going to study law. That’s what they wanted.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a law, see—not written anywhere exactly, but just as good as something written. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The militarized nature of law enforcement in ghetto communities has inspired rap artists and black youth to refer to the police presence in black communities as “The Occupation.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sound and light, Doppler argued, behaved according to universal and natural laws—even if these were deeply counterintuitive to ordinary viewers or listeners. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He said: “You shall be mine. That is the oldest law between your people and mine. But you must agree to it freely; if you do not, then I will not grant your wish.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed the bar immediately, though I know he never intended to practice the law or big corporate business. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For by any law of any land a man caught exciting to armed rebellion might be shot. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“However, the Oakland Police Department cannot comment on pending investigations, nor can it subvert the rule of law in this city.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Under this law the Court is able to hear evidence as to the aggravation or mitigation of the offense. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So I decided to try some of that law school stuff.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I remembered from one science class or another something about Newton, but I couldn’t put my finger on his laws. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was still no specific mention of African American women, who, along with African American men, would continue to be disenfranchised by state laws, especially in the South. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

If he was ordained, he would defy the edict, invoking the tenth commandment, which clearly said he was beholden to no laws beyond the ten—including any edicts levied by the Scythedom. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Enforcement of the laws that govern supernatural entities living in the known world. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

One girl in her group had taken up the study of law, as Claire’s brother had six years earlier, and still went each day after school to the hall of Law and Justice for training. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fiery Samuel Adams, backed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives, called on all the Colonies to disobey British tax laws. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under U.N. law each emigrant automatically received possession of an android subtype of his choice, and, by 2019, the variety of subtypes passed all understanding, in the manner of American automobiles of the 1960s. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The sanctity of the law...and the wisdom to know when it must be broken. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My father ended the interview by saying he intended to stay locked behind bars until the law dealt squarely with Dusty Muleman. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Our only close brash with the law came once when we were making our getaway, three of us in the front seat of the car, and the back seat loaded with stuff. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he graduated from law school in 1978, he had hoped to get a job in neighboring Midland instead of Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s unfair to rats. A law has to be fair to everybody.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

A specified delay, required by law, between taking an action and seeing the results of that action. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Marsha was shocked that law enforcement would do something so upsetting without justification. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The words “law school” escaped from my mouth, the fallback answer for many students who have no idea what they want to do with their lives. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“So, like, you in college and you hate law, so when you graduate you want to be in this?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Nothing would ever stop her from helping them, not masters or slave catchers, or overseers or fugitive slave laws. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In response, one state after another enacted direct-file laws that allowed juvenile offenders to be transferred to adult courts if they committed certain crimes. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“This goes against the ancient laws. A hero is allowed only two companions.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of people rented space in warehouses and other storage facilities, attempting to stock up, until a judge ruled that all liquor stored outside the home broke the law. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

At the time the new rules were adopted, the law governing civil forfeiture was so heavily weighted in favor of the government that fully 80 percent of forfeitures went uncontested. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Their fierceness and savage temper, however, did not grow less; they had no laws or courts of justice, but each one did as he pleased. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found out that only a few days before, the state law had been changed, and now Indiana had a long waiting period. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also didn’t matter that the city bus law—or ordinance, as city laws are called—had said since 1900 that no rider had to give up a seat unless another was available. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Over one thousand Panthers were jailed, many on false charges, as a result of informants, perpetual surveillance, and other law enforcement tactics that would later become defining features of the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A Muslim is a follower of laws—the laws of God and the laws of the society he or she lives in. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was let the unforgiving laws of nature run their course and I would be saved. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were, and are, some men who become judges whose love for the law and for its intention of promoting justice has the quality of love for a woman. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s probably against the law in Singapore too. Yet our brother has two, and his sons have two each. The law doesn’t matter.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll finish high school, go to college, get my law degree, and be out of here. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as such, he comes into this court under a handicap, notwithstanding our pretensions that all are equal before the law. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine they would ever change their minds and allow their children to go to school with me, no matter what laws those men on the Supreme Court made. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madison, and to an even greater extent Jefferson, seemed to think that economic policy consisted of getting out of the way to allow the natural laws of economic recovery and growth to proceed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“She is cold. She has not emotions. She would not stab a man; she would sue him in the law courts.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uto'pian, ideal, fanciful, chimerical: from "Utopia"—an imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called "Utopia," as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics laws, and society. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

In theory, they were even given equal pay to men—an issue that wasn’t dealt with in law until 1963 in the United States and 1970 in the United Kingdom. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Not plants that contradict the laws of nature.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler’s third law described the time it takes for planets to complete an orbit: r3/t2 = k for time t, distance r; and a constant k. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The state engineer, Nelson Bookman, and his personal special assistant, Rudy Noyes, knew more water law than the rest of the state put together. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it meant that the fact had a peculiar status in English law: once determined, it could never be disputed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All of them, to varying degrees, were exempt from the law.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In 1567 the great Protestant logician and mathematician Petrus Ramus referred to ‘the laws of Ptolemy’ and ‘the laws of Euclid’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Normally, such a “recommendation” had the force of law, but Spassky refused, as politely and diplomatically as possible. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these laws and policies had given way over time, but the change was slow and excruciating. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been arrested, dragged from a bus, charged with breaking the segregation law, and jailed. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

But he also senses his friend's fear of breaking the law. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thus some disciples of Newton were prepared to follow the logic of natural law through to its conclusion and maintain that everything that happens happens in accordance with the laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So if a law office wasn't open on Sundays, Black would just pop up and say he could represent someone in court. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I do not know if it is still a law,” Crane-man continued. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

"No. The King's under the law, for it's the law makes him a king. Hast no more power to start away from thy crown than any sentry from his post." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Martial law continued with an eye to the necessity of taking emergency measures for the public disaster of the endless downpour, but the troops were confined to quarters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

One of the laws of physics had to be wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

These are matches with haphazard rules run by gangsters, the matches where I find and catch the gamblers who get in trouble with the law. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When people think about crime, especially drug crime, they do not think about suburban housewives violating laws regulating prescription drugs or white frat boys using ecstasy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t tell us anything, “under penalty of law.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In a victory for the civil rights movement, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that states cannot use trespass laws against individuals protesting state-mandated segregation policies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

These fees, costs, and fines are generally quite new—created by law within the past twenty years—and are associated with a wide range of offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Almost overnight, huge segments of ghetto communities were permanently relegated to a second-class status, disenfranchised, and subjected to perpetual surveillance and monitoring by law enforcement agencies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Since then, bribes from traders have kept police and other security officials from enforcing the law. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The laws that drove Newton’s apples to the ground should also apply to the growth of the apple tree. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

New laws went into effect specifically designed to quell black anger. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was career law enforcement, and if he thought I needed a security team, I really had a lot of thinking to do. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

According to South African law, since we were in the Supreme Court, Duma, as an advocate, was the only one permitted to address the judges directly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week passed in which I could hardly drag myself to my job, an internship at a law firm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Because the “car” was guilty of transporting someone who had broken a drug law at some time, she could legally lose her only form of transportation, even though she herself committed no crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“New laws for each new form, of course. New lines of potential. Complexity beyond complexity, accident on accident, until—” His leer was like icy wind. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the USSR, gender equality in law didn’t always mean gender equality in everyday life. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The following year, the government passed two more laws that directly attacked the rights of the Coloureds and Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now against her will, she is caught up in something she doesn’t believe in and is against the law. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In particular, we know the basic laws that underlie all of chemistry and biology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was unwritten law in China, so my informant told me, that when one man saved another’s life he became responsible for that life to the end of its existence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

First Wife was the head wife, by law and by custom. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the rule that no one under twenty-one is allowed to drink beer, which of those people’s IDs do we have to check to make sure the law is being observed? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result of the two laws, nearly eight million children donned the brown uniforms of the Hitler Youth in 1939. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Isaac Newton established the three laws of motion,” my grandfather says, and points to the plastic fork on his tray. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Not in any law journal that I know about. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

That perhaps at the end of his second term in office, they would move to Chicago and he would practice law again. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barnett excelled, attending Northwestern University and opening his own law office right there in Chicago when he was just twenty years old. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Calculus allowed Newton to combine all these equations into one grand set of laws—laws that applied in all cases, under all conditions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Therapy, hah! Unvarnished flattery is what you hand out—and they eat it up with a trowel. Disgusting! Why couldn’t you have gone into law like your father?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He began practicing law in Natal, a region in what is now South Africa. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Zero is so powerful because it unhinges the laws of physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I vowed that never would I enter such a world, and I thanked the law for making sure I could not do so without a permit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Composers immediately sensed that something transformative had happened; all of a sudden their harmony started obeying laws of attraction and repulsion, whether they liked it or not. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The third part of the picture is the law courts. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

After years at sea McNeish knew his naval law, and he was convinced that Endurance’s Ship’s Articles were canceled. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He followed through with his plans to have us flaunt the law and play on whites- only tennis courts in the city. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; and, by a terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

A weird and convoluted new personality type; no wonder law enforcement agencies were having trouble with the Nexus-6. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Anya stomped closer to the river, her words ripping out of her: “You broke the law too! Don’t you deserve to go to jail?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The prevalence of illegal drug activity among all racial and ethnic groups creates a situation in which, due to limited law enforcement resources and political constraints, some people are made criminals while others are not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The law was due to take effect the next year, and it required every Indian—man, woman, and child over the age of eight—to register and be fingerprinted. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

There should also be a law against going through puberty early. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They were both thinking the same thing: Surely Justice Strauss would have a book on inheritance law. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“In Redding we still have law and order,” Father said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And who was the expert in these two suddenly critical areas of law? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Any lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state law was supposed to be heard by a panel of three judges in a federal court—that was the rule. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Every big construction project is supposed to do one. That’s the law.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop throwing objects at law enforcement,” the officer says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Gerhard is so reasonable, so predictable, so resolute, always doing the right thing, obeying the law, even when he doesn't agree with it. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I sentenced her because it was the law to sentence her. I have done my best to see the sentence will be carried out.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of Jordan’s civil code was based on Islamic law. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Segregation laws and customs in the South between the two races were strictly enforced. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There are certain laws of physics by which all crew coaches live and die. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It might redeem her enough in the eyes of the law that she'd be forgiven for the other bad things she'd done that night. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The books were of the most varied kind—history, geography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law—all relating to England and English life and customs and manners. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The superintendent, who had been looking over Ndlamini’s dossier, suddenly stared at Ndlamini and said, “Why did you break the law, old man?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under California law, a juvenile has to be at least sixteen to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’d led an overhaul of state campaign finance laws that ushered in stricter ethics rules for elected officials. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The clear majority of Americans of all races have violated drug laws in their lifetime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But because they believe themselves to be white, they would rather countenance a man choked to death on film under their laws. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In Utah, there were no laws prohibiting either activity, except among novice drivers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It had ceased to be my childhood playground and had become its own reality, one whose physical laws were mysterious, hostile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the absence of Lord Furnival he was in charge of the manor, the laws, and the peasants. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

So these classical laws would have ruled out any possibility of time travel. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must pay the Hardway when he does wrong, law is Boss he knows that by now. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of those laws, not much foreign beer gets exported to Germany, and because of inefficiency and high prices much less of that wonderful German beer than you would otherwise expect gets sold abroad. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The elimination of judicial discretion through mandatory sentencing laws has forced judges to impose sentences for drug crimes that are often longer than those imposed for violent crimes in many countries around the world. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sheriff returns to the lot with railroad officials and makes noises about vagrancy laws. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

That legislation carved a huge exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, the Civil War-era law prohibiting the use of the military for civilian policing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Black holes are very, very massive, so they are subject to the laws of relativity; at the same time, black holes are very, very tiny, so they are in the domain of quantum mechanics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But as badly as he wanted us to believe it, he never did finish law school. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy Crow says that, and he makes the laws.They don’t come in the White Castle restaurant where Mama takes us to get Cokes either, or the Zoo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new law roped every citizen of the United States into conspiracy with the slave catchers, requiring everyone to search out and turn in any slaves they knew to be in hiding. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“There was only one law officer in town, and when the Hell’s Angels came to town, he would crouch down in the back of his office,” Mark Langan remembers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We made our government write new laws to alter some of the cruelest injustices that affected us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The laws of this state permit the hearing of evidence to ascertain the degree of responsibility. And, also, the law permits the offering of evidence toward the mitigation of punishment.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The quantum laws are more liberal and allow you to be overdrawn on one or two accounts provided the total balance is positive. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But that baby couldn’t have broken the law. Not yet anyway.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Many state and local law enforcement officials were less than pleased with the attempt by the federal government to assert itself in local crime fighting, viewing the new drug war as an unwelcome distraction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jefferson had also shared with Madison his intriguingly utopian suggestion that each generation was sovereign, so that the laws made for one generation should expire after about twenty years. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The fact that most of the evidence in support of any disparity had since been discredited was deemed irrelevant; what mattered was whether the law had seemed rational at the time it was adopted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone I knew respected these customary laws, except for the powhitetrash children. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

From my studies at Fort Hare, I had a little knowledge of law and I put it to use. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The unwritten laws of heaven are not of today nor yesterday, but from all time.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Du Barry had tested us on these laws until we could recite them on command. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He also noted, though, from Kepler’s laws, that the ‘endeavours of receding from the Sun’ of the planets in their orbits were inversely proportional to the squares of their distances from the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

If the media is to be believed, teenagers are too busy breaking laws and trying to kill themselves and the people around them to form any bonds of attachment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Maria turned pale, and Matt realized she hadn’t known about this law. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It enraged Seven that even when a law or issue had to do with them, the simple fact of being young made them unqualified to have an opinion. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Without dogs and cats, there’s more food for humans. My dad says if it weren't for the Barons breaking the law, lots of species would have gone extinct.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, most of us break the law not once but repeatedly throughout our lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He consumed hours each day leafing through law books, compiling research that he hoped would help reverse his conviction. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pondered continuously ways of making money, and the only ways that I could think of involved transgressions of the law. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The law was plain; a deserter’s life was forfeit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But on the part of the prince there is the majesty of the principality, the laws, and the defences of friends and the state to protect him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Those who dreamed and speculated about the laws of Nature talked with the technologists and the engineers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

State and county officials are under no compulsion to follow the federal pesticides tolerances unless local laws happen to conform — and they seldom do. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Apart from the Suppression of Communism Act, two laws passed in 1950 formed the cornerstones of apartheid: the Population Registration Act and the Group Areas Act. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, in any given year, more than one in ten Americans violate drug laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

"It's against the law to marry that doctor-to-be. He's your cousin." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny knew that by law any cargo that was not unloaded within twenty days might be seized by the custom-house and sold at auction. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The message communicated by felon disenfranchisement laws, policies, and bureaucratic procedures is not lost on those, such as Clinton Drake, who are effectively barred from voting for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Gambling on Warcross is illegal in the United States; it’s one of the many laws the government has recently passed in a desperate attempt to keep up with technology and cybercrime. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Because of the third law that I had mentioned, Conservation. ‘Energy cannot be destroyed or created, merely lost or found.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some radical group was holding a community meeting about police brutality, the new three strikes law in California, and the expansion of America’s prison system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I also tell him he better be moving back home after law school. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

So, too, science itself is an invention, but Newton did not invent gravity, he discovered its law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is a fundamental law of Nature, as basic as gravity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Lempert is saying is that by the only measure that a law school really ought to care about—how well its graduates do in the real world—minority students aren’t less qualified. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He had Theresa by the arm, and he was bellowing some nonsense about new laws about rooting out heresy and pagan sorcery and some other fancy phrases he had just learned that week, I reckoned. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"I—I don't know what their intentions are, Your Grace. But the law..." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Barack would be leaving sometime in August, disappearing into law school and whatever else life held for him there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Did you help pass the current beauty laws?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Under Georgia law, he said, he had to arrest her. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Native administration dealt with the laws relating to Africans and was advisable for anyone who wanted to work in the Native Affairs Department. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even started having second thoughts about going to Alabama to start a law office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had flouted the king’s laws all my life. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

These stories showed her exactly what the new law meant to runaway slaves living anywhere in the United States, and that, of course, included her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patiently and unobtrusively Atticus had taught him everything Henry knew about his craft, but Henry sometimes wondered if he would be as old as Atticus before he reduced law to his possession. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The great paradox about the French Revolution is that even as the revolutionaries passed ever more laws to benefit the poor and enslaved, those same leaders turned increasingly zealous in murdering their enemies. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But we had committed no offense and violated no laws, and we could not be arrested simply on the recommendation of a chief, even if he happened to be our father. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And by another treaty, if you're not in any country's territory, maritime law applies. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For generations they had skirmished on the wrong side of the law, hoarding enough funds to become legitimate. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But, Aglavale, I am trying to make a new law in Britain, by which people don’t have to go on shedding young blood for ever. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told a Treasury official that she wanted to lobby for a law making it illegal to mention government workers by name without their permission. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I would have preferred to sit in the front seat, but Alyssa’s brother called it, and if we don’t adhere to the convention of calling shotgun, what rule of law is left to us? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The motion had to do with what was going on inside Reggie’s mind, and it raised fascinating questions about the collision of technology, science, and law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, she got her permission to go to law school. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, for us moderns, laws of nature are scientific laws and natural laws are moral laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It indicated that victims of race discrimination could still state a claim under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees “equal treatment under the laws.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When it came to tribal matters, he was guided not by the laws of the king of England, but by Thembu custom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His reputation—the gushing reports by his law school professors, the New York Times story about his selection as president of the Law Review—seemed to bring a flood of opportunity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

‘Yet this is our law. I am not the master of the law, and cannot set it aside. I have done much in letting you set foot over Celebrant.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There are no physical laws common to both spheres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This principle is Newton’s very first law of motion and was considered old news even in Miss Penelope Lumley’s day. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

This idea long precedes the legal claim to authorial copyright, which did not exist in British law until 1710, and was established later elsewhere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If scientists succeed, they will understand the laws of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Since finishing law school, I’d been living back in my old South Shore neighborhood, which was still relatively untouched by gangs and drugs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If the eugenicist learned these laws and then figured out how to hack them—à la Plato—he would acquire unprecedented power; by manipulating genes, he could manipulate the future. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My plan for a new law project to represent people on death row in Alabama was starting to take shape. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The government went to insane lengths to try to enforce these new laws. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One reason things were changing so much owed to a familiar technology maxim called Moore’s law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

One day I intentionally broke one of these laws: I talked while eating. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither one would help him because of a basic spy law: Give information only to those with a need to know. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At best I’d be jailed and forced to stand against the iron law. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On July 30,1952, at the height of the Defiance Campaign, I was at work at my then law firm of H. M. Basner when the police arrived with a warrant for my arrest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think that law applies here,” said Isa, unconsciously adjusting her neat ponytail into an even neater ponytail. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I read through four of the twenty-five pages, mesmerized by how many laws exist to separate us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The list of signers included Charlotte Woodward, the only person at that meeting who would live long enough to see female suffrage become the law of the land. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The population most affected by this misguided law is formerly incarcerated women with children, most of whom were imprisoned for drug crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This was the first time in my life that I had ever consciously entertained the idea of violating the laws of the land. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beneath your lordship’s roof, your lordship’s word is law... but I shall want a reckoning with this onion lord before he leaves this city.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Justice went to work for her cousin at his law firm, where a flexible schedule allowed her to look after the two children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

You might think that Boyle’s law is a bit like the New World—it was there waiting to be discovered. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“If you are so concerned about the law," said the Governor, “then you should know that you are breaking it as we speak." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Congress had recently passed a law that prohibited mailing obscene material. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My father belonged to a loosely knit group of black families in the neighbourhood to whom tribal traditions were a way of life, and who sought to bring up their offspring according to its laws. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no law against occasionally using and or but to begin a sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe walking out of school can help change gun laws and stuff.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s measurements were used by Newton as the basis of his laws of motion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rhetoric of “law and order” was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As she made a note she said, "Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Not paying taxes is a federal offense." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“There’s no law against destroying abandoned nests,” the vice-president was saying. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His law practice thrived and soon Tony Chavez had it all, money, a six-figure income, a fancy house with a pool, fine cars, an American Express Platinum card. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t know if it’s explicitly stated in the law, but you can’t ever tell a Chinese mother to shut up. You could be charged as an accessory to your own murder.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the OIC called out, “Law library,” for example, I would check the sheet to see if anyone had put down law library when the officer doing the go-round came by his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that all right to do? I thought the black market was against the law.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was a force of nature, the helpless agent of our world’s physical laws. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The enormous stone wall to the right of them seemed to defy every known law of physics as it slid along the ground, throwing sparks and dust as it moved, rock against rock. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In this seminal case on texting and driving, the hearing examined how decades’ worth of attention science might be applied to the law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Why did you break the law? Do you know you can be endorsed out?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my mother’s part, the fact that this man didn’t particularly want a family with her, was prevented by law from having a family with her, was part of the attraction. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“In doing so, I broke the laws of the legion.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If I get caught, I'll go straight to jail for breaking the law, so that idea isn't a very good one. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

To drum up public support for the law, legal injunctions were bolstered by insidious propaganda—a formula that the Nazis would eventually bring to monstrous perfection. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve been dozing with one eye open as long as I can remember, trying to keep a step ahead of the law. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to this theory, there are either many different universes or many different regions of a single universe, each with its own initial configuration and, perhaps, with its own set of laws of science. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Thorne, "he did not understand the laws of physics well enough to be able to substantiate his ideas." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are lessons in foreign languages, social customs, literature, martial arts, the use of firearms, disguises, various accents, methods of forgery, and fine points of the law. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now she’s a paralegal, except she works at a really small law office where she has to be the receptionist and the secretary too. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She became a law clerk, a teacher, and the superintendent of schools in Mason City, Iowa, before devoting her career to suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

For a year, there was a looseness, a freedom from tension, a time when martial law was suspended. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mayor Gayle and several city commissioners insisted the segregation laws were needed to maintain order in the city. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The idea of an omnipotent creator God may help in formulating a theory of laws of nature, but it seems wrong to claim that it is a necessary precondition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Drivers simply ignored the law until it became customary for blacks to move when the driver told them to. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

As a preface, the judge explained that the law allowed a penalty of up to a year in jail for each count of negligent homicide. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The law specified that if the evidence wasn’t actually in your possession, you couldn’t be arrested. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The court said researchers should disclose financial interests in patient tissues, though no law required it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Like the laws of thermodynamics, the principle applies to nature itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Boyle was happy to argue that God makes miracles happen, and that in doing so he breaks his own laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But that year the significance of the new law was brought home to her, in terms of people. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If anyone tried to live by the letter of the law, it was me,” he said later, in an interview published by the Ambassador Report. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Internal conflict resolution within states has become increasingly formalized by laws, a judiciary, and police. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He held a curious view of the law when it came to women and Africans: neither group, he said, was meant to be lawyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems they’ll sell a high-powered rifle to just about anybody in California, but it’s against the law to aim the thing at an animal without a fourteen-hour class and a multiple-choice exam. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t particularly imaginative in how I thought about the future, which is another way of saying I was already thinking about law school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was the first really universal law of nature ever propounded by a human mind, which is why Newton is regarded with such universal esteem. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’s three years older than me and great-looking, tall with wavy blond hair, finishing LSU law school, protected by a hundred and seventy miles of badly paved roads. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That meant a vigorous federal government with sufficient powers to coerce the citizenry to pay taxes and obey the laws. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

My life in Johannesburg, my exposure to men like Gaur Radebe, my experiences at the law firm, had radically altered my beliefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martial law enabled the army to assume the functions of arbitrator in the controversy, but no effort at conciliation was made. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Public opinion in Maycomb was with him: Mr. Fink was an honorable man, he was trying his best to pay his debts, and the law molested him no further. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

You reach for the next rung of the ladder, and this time it's a job with a salary in the Chicago offices of a high-end law firm called Sidley & Austin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now, for the first time in history, law was no longer the shadow of justice, it was justice. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But evidence does exist of a distinct pattern of intimidation and harassment of workers by company-hired gunmen, local law enforcement, and National Guard troops—with little or no redress for the victims. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

In many countries the king’s son inherited the crown, but this was not the law in Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Using Kepler’s third law, Newton mathematically deduced the nature of the gravitational force.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Langley Air Force Base and Fort Monroe moved forward to integrate the housing and the schools on their bases; as federal outposts, they were bound to comply with federal law. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Because maybe, given time, people do change, maybe laws change. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But he should have kept forefront in his mind that he was a Jew, and Louis was bound by law and religion to hate him and all his kind. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m old and missing too many things. The tsar makes his laws in Kiev, but they don’t always apply to us out here away from the cities.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“How could we find out about the law without Olaf’s knowledge?” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“And though I do believe you’re just a man out looking for his son, the law’s the law.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Freas was also no longer leading the investigation; that February, he was expelled from office after a jury had found him guilty of failing to enforce the law. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Gun advocates believe that gun laws are too strict; opponents believe exactly the opposite. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“It predicted what might happen to the seal population off Cape Cod after the Marine Mammal Protection Act became law. Back then, seals had been my focus.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Walter's alibi wasn't the only problem for law enforcement. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As they crossed the line, Bobby Moch, defying the laws of physics and common sense, suddenly stood bolt upright in the stern of his twenty-four-inch-wide shell, triumphantly thrusting one fist into the air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Ranger with whom Tom argued about usurping the law joined a posse of vigilantes and was accidentally shot and killed by one of his own men. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Grunted something about medical school, law school, and “real work.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like many civil rights lawyers, I was inspired to attend law school by the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers,” she says, holding out her glass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In front of a barnful of horsemen, Smith laid down the law. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing brings so much honour to a man newly risen up than the new laws and new institutions discovered by him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

His firm wanted him to come into the office full-time after his graduation from high school, read law with them, and eventually take the bar exam. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Tempier declared that the omnipotent God could create a vacuum if he so desired, Tempier insisted that God could break any Aristotelian law. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Heredity, Bateson warned, would soon be shown to “follow a precise law of remarkable simplicity.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Like us, they were against eating rabbit and pork; they followed the Mosaic dietary laws. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could do no other than to oppose the law and to suffer the consequences for it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This fact is not advertised by police departments, because law enforcement officials know that the public would not respond well to this fact in the era of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Newton discovered the law of inertia, the tendency of a moving object to continue moving in a straight line unless something influences it and moves it out of its path. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mumble thanks for the advice, feeling like I’ve just been stripped naked by the crazed enforcer of some ancient sumptuary law: No chatting for you, girl. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me, Jenna. There are different kinds of laws. Some are written in books, and some are written in here.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Tate, the district attorney, and other law enforcement officers who had become targets of criticism were cheered. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Rumpff always stood for law, no matter what his own political opinions might be, and we were convinced that when it came to law, we could only be found innocent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gray challenged the laws themselves, contending that the provisions of Alabama’s laws and Montgomery’s city ordinances requiring racial segregation were unconstitutional. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The consensus reaction was that Bobby’s expectoration reeked of callousness regarding the carnage taking place in Bosnia, and was a clear flouting of, if not international law, then at least moral norms. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Concentrating law enforcement efforts in locations where drug activity will be more easily detected is viewed as a race-neutral organizational necessity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“So, you see, dear one,” she said sweetly, “it was her mama’s fault the law went looking for my father on the charge of bigamy.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

At Harvard, I could study law while pursuing a graduate degree in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, which appealed to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Barack had originally planned to spend the months leading up to our wedding finishing his book and working at his new law firm, but he’d ended up putting most of it on an abrupt hold. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now imagine that the law says no matter how fierce the fire, if you don’t successfully put it out, you’ll be executed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“What, there’s a law says 1 got to sign that petition?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper demanded that the law “leave no stone unturned to ferret out the perpetrators and bring them to justice.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Instead of poring over tomes about contract law, I was now absorbed by novels. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The country’s legal system would guarantee equality before the law, and a bill of rights would be drawn up to protect civil liberties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It therefore seems equally reasonable to suppose that there are also laws governing the initial state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened quickly: Eleazar, just twenty years old, had recently graduated from Union College and returned to the family estate forty miles northwest of Albany, planning to study law under his father. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It gave him a mysterious air, like a putative from the law. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Watch your words, man. The girl has admitted to being a friend to the witch. And there is a complaint against her, made according to law and signed.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sonny and Lawrence told their father to get Joe to Clover, back to the tobacco farms, where he could hide from the law and be safe. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Violet and I are considering a career in law, so we are fascinated by these books.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sulzberger asked, referring to Louis Loeb of the Times's law firm, Lord, Day & Lord. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But it is doubtful that the drug war would have been launched with such intensity on the ground but for the bribes offered for law enforcement’s cooperation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

These are the laws that we will enforce and you will obey: All citizens must pray five times a day. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Nor I,” Violet said, “on mechanical engineering. I think I’d like to read about inheritance law.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were from Japan, both of them bom there, and there was this law on the books prevented them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What may kill, kills; what may eat, eats. All things are born unequal, and there is no law but that inequality.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But too young to be punished by the law. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is clear that this slave has violated the person of her master, destroyed valuable property, and attempted to run away, all contrary to the laws of our colony.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The announcement of a War on Drugs was therefore met with some confusion and resistance within law enforcement, as well as among some conservative commentators. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Watch out, patron. Don’t start taking the law into your own hands,” they warned me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it’s written in the constitution somewhere, like a law passed down from Moses. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even her brother told her, “The child belongs by law to the father and it is your place to submit. If you make any more trouble about it we’ll send you back to the asylum.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His business interests now dominated the county, and he had become a powerful local advocate for law and order—for the protection of what he called “God-fearing souls.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You driving that vehicle day or night, you already breaking the law. Nothing I can do for you if you break the law.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t like you? I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It cost six dollars. 4TH JUROR: It’s against the law to buy or sell switchblade knives. 8TH JUROR: That’s right. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The federal government mandated high-stakes testing as part of the No Child Left Behind law, signed by President Bush in 2002. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I would, but he hasn’t done anything I can jail him for. You know what the laws are.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Claudette faced three separate charges: violating the segregation law, disturbing the peace, and “assaulting” one of the policemen who had pulled her off the bus. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The federally guaranteed right to vote gave them the opportunity to elect officials who would protect all the other basic rights guaranteed by federal law and the Constitution. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last he had sought to make a map of force, as it were, to bind it down by laws. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chino, he knows the law inside out, like a reversible coat. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

His mother said, “Well, I’m not sure if it’s an actual law but—” “Oh yes, it is,” his father cut in. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The penalty for violating the pass laws was thirty days in jail or a fine of fifty rand, nearly half her monthly salary. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It is not often,” Buckley continued, “that a representative of the people finds the masses of the citizens who elected him to office standing literally at his back, waiting for him to enforce the law. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All persons are forewarned of harboring said girl, under penalty of law prescribed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If the number of field agents expected to see that the law was carried out was pitifully small, the resources devoted to patrolling the nation’s 4,993 miles of coastline were pathetic. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Oh, law, was Mama fixing to hear how he’d loved Miss Love from the minute he laid eyes on her? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They wished to hold Greece in almost the same manner as the Spartans held it, making it free and leaving it under its own laws, and they did not succeed. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

All authority to pass laws and raise money was held by a variety of committees made up of members of the town council. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We followed neither the laws of God or of your pagan god, and we paid no heed to the magic of your Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the modern world, it is often considered a violation of international law. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly whatever was going on down there in the world of the very small was not governed by the laws that applied in the macro world where our expectations reside. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Working as a lawyer in South Africa meant operating under a debased system of justice, a code of law that did not enshrine equality but its opposite. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll try to get word to Bridgebane’s family tonight. It is against all the laws of war to treat prisoners so badly.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And do you know that it’s the law to have those things? And do you know that you may fail as a result? Do you know?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I assure you,” the doctor said, “that Hill House will be quiet tonight. There is a pattern to these things, as though psychic phenomena were subject to laws of a very particular sort.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Treating us as unequals was a privilege granted them by the laws of our land. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Along with the Post-Impressionists and, more recently, Op artists, color theorists have tried to set down their understanding of colors as perceptual and artistic laws equivalent to those of optical physics. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who am I to argue with the law?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But even if the law didn’t make him do the job he wouldn’t do on his own, I knew something he didn’t. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Stories of law violations are weighed on a different set of scales in the Black mind than in the white. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Negative, Holly...Captain Short. You don’t have an invite. You know the law. Hold your position.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Be more careful, Mike. The law was designed to save, not to destroy.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because they thought the rules and the laws and the Word of God would save them from any more pain. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Our God is bigger than the facts. He’s not limited by the laws of nature, science, or the almighty dollar.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Yet it appears that he chose to make it evolve in a very regular way according to certain laws. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breaking the law goes against their church teachings, but the boys feel sure that they have a responsibility to learn the truth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Writing Cop told him, “These are kids. You’re”—he glanced at his writing pad—“an adult by law.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Freshmen had already mapped the progress that would lead them to business or law school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony’s friend Judge William Hay came up with thirteen laws for Stanton to include in her remarks. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The academic courses—math, science, law—at school became less demanding for her group. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As required by law, he had tested the chemical on laboratory animals and submitted the results with his application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The term ‘law’ implies unbroken regularity, with no exceptions, but nothing is conveyed about causation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I plunged deeply into the law and the sociology of race, poverty, and power. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Did Mendel know that he was trying to uncover general laws that govern heredity? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was astonished to find there were real laws set up to justify mistreating us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Jack Franklin is not being tried by the media. He can't be. That's a job for a court and a jury. The media is simply asking questions that law enforcement should be asking." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I take ‘laws of nature’ and ‘scientific laws’ to be synonymous, although I am aware that some philosophers want to use these as labels to distinguish two different types of law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Go visit your mother and father first,” my mother-in- law said, a generous woman. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jews inside were selling anything and everything for food, and for those of us outside, there was a bargain to be had, German laws or not. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The regent was acting in accordance with Thembu law and custom, and his own motives could not be maligned: he wanted us to be settled during his lifetime. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there was Bigger No. 4, whose only law was death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go, Tansy. I told you, this floor is off-limits. Entering a crime scene before it’s cleared is evidence tampering. It’s against the law.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She had met a kind Egyptian-American man, and the two of them had followed traditional Islamic marriage laws and were going to have their wedding celebration in March. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The races were segregated by a dense, carefully woven web of laws, signs, partitions, arrows, ordinances, unequal opportunities, rules, insults, threats, and customs—often backed up by violence. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He could not imagine turning the republic of letters into a vast law court. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Antigone rebels, on the grounds that there is a higher law than that of the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did lives have laws, could he have described his with an equation? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, a white woman who fell in love with a black man and hoped to spend the rest of her life with him was directly harmed by anti-miscegenation laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not interested in admirers until I have my law degree.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems you take very good care of the laws in Chattana City.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was not fair, but it was the law. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“The Department doesn’t want you to enforce the law—it doesn’t train you to do that,” Voltraw said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall learning these laws clearer than I recall learning my colors and shapes, because these laws were essential to the security of my body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He might have been with a law firm. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It might consist of a terse statement of law, or a question on the statement, an answer to the question, a brief or lengthy commentary on a Biblical verse, and so on. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In other words, the racial ideology that gave rise to these laws remains largely undisturbed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She isn’t a person who breaks the law, no matter how small the law might be. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The government subsequently passed a law that made it an offense punishable by fine or imprisonment to offer unauthorized education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madame Ratignolle had spoken what she believed to be the law and the gospel The young man shrugged his shoulders impatiently. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It literally means “apartness” and it represented the codification in one oppressive system of all the laws and regulations that had kept Africans in an inferior position to whites for centuries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the energy that directed the armies of the law in Harare. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I am in charge here. And once I tell my mother, it will be as good as law." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The guardians of his republic, its elite ruling class, having deciphered the “law of births,” would ensure that only such harmonious “fortunate” unions would occur in the future. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In vain Milton tried to get me to wear one of the paper hats his employees had to wear by law. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The country developed ways by which some could become formal citizens of this nation of laws. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A British reporter covering the trial marveled at "this crew-cut, diffident, simple, rather polite man, surrounded by the entire apparatus of Soviet law." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The outlines of the law were explicitly borrowed from the American eugenics program—if amplified for effect. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Never Tell Our Business to Strangers was a memoir by a woman whose father lived on the run from the law. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he returned home, he resumed college at Temple University and then went through its law school, with every penny of his higher education paid by that great entitlement program called the GI Bill. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“In fact, Colonel Arbuthnot, you prefer law and order to private vengeance?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the perspective of the law, this was another moment where Dr. Strayer was touching on the state of mind of the person texting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even if the actual enforcement of these laws was sporadic at best. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When we write of ‘laws of nature’ the word ‘laws’, too, is being used in a metaphorical sense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the first stage, a small number of well-trained volunteers would break selected laws in a handful of urban areas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge then asked the twelve chosen jurors to swear that they would render a true verdict according to the law and the evidence—“so help you God!” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Or wait, okay, actually, I think the point is that above all other laws is the law of love. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ramus, as we have seen, writes of the ‘laws’ of Ptolemy and of Euclid. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Your Honor, I would like to begin by pointing out that Jeremy Tyler has never been in trouble with the law before,” his lawyer began. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a law against riding out on Sunday for either business or pleasure. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Hoover had no particular devotion to the niceties of the law, he did not seem to believe that White was capable of such tactics. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The attorney Leahy would hail the outcome as “one of the greatest indications of law and justice that has been realized in the country.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the mission schools, black people learned English, European literature, medicine, the law. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“But Dr. Bulkeley says that Connecticut has misinterpreted the charter. His knowledge of the law is so wide. He says that justice is not always served by our courts and — ” “Bah!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The law was all around me, but it had never come down on me, Trevor, specifically. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They covered the secretary’s table, the reading desk, the stools—dreary papers of government, still bravely persevered in—of law, still to be codified—of commissariat and of armament and of orders for the day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

See, the law in America had always been that you couldn’t give up your citizenship during times of war, but President Roosevelt had signed the law just to get rid of them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Are the migrants hiding in clumps of yellow flowers between the tracks innocents traveling north or dangerous men who are running from the law in their own countries? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Bacon writes of ‘the law of nature and the mutual contracts of things’: he is paraphrasing Lucretius. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My parents moved to Birmingham when I was two years old, and there I came face-to-face with Jim Crow laws, which enforced segregation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Without the vote, women would not have the power to change unfair laws. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In recent years, civil rights advocates have launched important reform efforts, most notably the campaigns challenging felon disenfranchisement laws, crack-sentencing policies, and racial profiling by law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, he issued a terse statement saying, “We shall enforce the law equitably and equally for all people in the community.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Galton knew that the crowning achievement of the law would be its ability to accurately predict a real pattern of inheritance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Trotter had obviously never heard of either the minimum- wage or the child-labor laws. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“There is no law above the Sorrows, not for a thousand years.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to go to law school and start changing some things,” Miss Ohio said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Of all these ways, none came to symbolize this national evasion of the anti-drinking laws more dramatically than a brand-new and illegal type of drinking establishment that replaced the closed-down once-legal saloons. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The law student taunted her, saying that if at some point in the future she should become his wife, then the jewelry would be his. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact this might violate a federal statute; he tried to remember the relevant law, found he could not. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The new system of control is traceable, to a significant degree, to a massive bribe offered to state and local law enforcement by the federal government. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Did corn somehow sneak into Washington and change the laws? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

My money perish with me if it stand between me and the eternal law of God!” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Troublemakers or brawlers, or other sorts of unpleasant characters who required restraint, and God knows where they go under martial law. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“But everybody knows about it now. It’s all over. Everywhere. The law is the law.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could imagine the expressions on the faces of the law officers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“We have almost as many laws as words,” grumbled the king. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

They also claimed that the Jews dominated professions such as banking, law, medicine, and journalism. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then I wonder what will happen to my sister when her boyfriend graduates from law school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The agency, created in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001, is in charge of implementing our country's immigration laws. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She promptly went back to school and earned three degrees in law from the Washington College of Law at American University. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The halal food laws exist so Muslims avoid eating najis things. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t ask no questions ’cause I didn’t know how to say “Jim Crow laws” in Spanish. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem arose because the ordinary assumptions of statistical mechanics—the laws of physics—did not lead Planck to his formula. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It is important to approach this subject from a variety of strategies, including mental health assistance but also from a law enforcement perspective. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Instead, they enter a separate society, a world hidden from public view, governed by a set of oppressive and discriminatory rules and laws that do not apply to everyone else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In addition to his school work, he put in his afternoons working for a law firm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was teaching a class on racism and the law at the University of Chicago Law School and working by day at his law firm, mostly on cases involving voting rights and employment discrimination. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And if there is a reasonable chance that readers will misinterpret a statistical tendency as an absolute law, a responsible writer will anticipate the oversight and qualify the generalization accordingly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Newton’s law of gravity says that the gravitational attraction of a star is exactly one quarter that of a similar star at half the distance. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It defines a different kind of change to the world and our lives, and indirectly would drive Paul’s eventual research: Metcalfe’s law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Just three weeks after Henrietta’s name was first published, Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law and launched the War on Cancer, designating $1.5 billion for cancer research over the next three years. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The rally reached its climax that night when Adolf Hitler stepped before the German parliament, the Reichstag, to introduce three new laws. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When the laws for the Games were laid out, they dictated that every twenty-five years the anniversary would be marked by a Quarter Quell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m all for the law and order he and the president talk about.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They have all the law and all the machinery on their side. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Just as there is no law requiring informed consent for storing tissues for research, there is no clear requirement for telling donors when their tissues might result in profits. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He became so engaged in the work that he asked the federal judge he was clerking for after law school if he could cut short his two-year clerkship to join us in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On that first day of the Defiance Campaign, more than 250 volunteers around the country violated various unjust laws and were imprisoned. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The laws of quantum mechanics treat particles such as the electron as points; that is, they take up no space at all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“My father wants me to go to law school, my mother’s always throwing hints about medical school, but I’m going to be a teacher. Doesn’t pay much here, but it’s what I want.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Xhosa are a proud and patrilineal people with an expressive and euphonious language and an abiding belief in the importance of laws, education, and courtesy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But our tax laws and the way we think about them were long developing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, of course, Adams himself must bear the responsibility for signing into law the blatantly partisan legislation that has subsequently haunted his historic reputation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Black people knew that education was important,” wrote one historian, "because under slavery the law had rigidly denied it to them.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Garfield continued to practice law, including an 1866 appearance before the U.S. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Prohibition, gambling and their related vocations were so obviously practiced that it was hard for me to believe that they were against the law. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Klan portrayed itself as the patriotic defender of law and morality in turbulent times, but the group actually caused much of the lawlessness and terror that gripped the region during those postbellum years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship, declaring them non-Germans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the physical and psychological intimidation of minors—not even martial law allows that!” she yells. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Is it ever all right to break the law?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Since it was against the law for private cars to charge fares like licensed taxis, the network would be paid for by donations collected at the mass meetings. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Seeing my old friend and law partner was the reunion I most looked forward to. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For even as the revolutionaries in France passed humane laws, they began using the guillotine to execute their own lords and nobles. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Suffrage for African American men had become the law of the land. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At the time of Walter's release, only ten states and the District of Columbia had laws authorizing compensation to people who have been wrongly incarcerated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bright and serious, Ismail Meer was born in Natal, and while at law school at Wits he became a key member of the Transvaal Indian Congress. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Galileo described nature as inexorable and immutable, and it is very hard to understand how there can be exceptions of any sort to Descartes’ laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Next to your name is another name, that of some hotshot law student who’s busy climbing his own ladder. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Being in law enforcement, Roy’s father probably was required to report all crimes, even truancy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps most revealing of all the hysteria propelling the Red Scare were laws passed by local and state governments throughout the nation that restricted parades and what they termed “radical activity.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The axiom that a man is innocent until proved guilty by a court of law has been flagrantly ignored once again in the State of Mississippi. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, there are the laws that tell us how the universe changes with time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When other scholars have tried to replicate his results, they found that right-to-carry laws simply don’t bring down crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The newspapers took up the cause in outraged editorials; the law stepped in. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was my favorite episode, the one about the law of conservation of energy. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When we got into the car, Myron said, “Did you do anything against the law?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Much racial bias, though, would operate unconsciously and automatically—even among law enforcement officials genuinely committed to equal treatment under the law. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Sheriff. No one doubts your word is law.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Probably a book on Jewish law or something.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I would say that the whole life of any thinking African in this country drives him continuously to a conflict between his conscience on the one hand and the law on the other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a new one on the law courts of fifth-century Syracuse. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

There are similar galaxies, as if stamped from the same mold, all over the Cosmos because these simple laws of nature—gravity and the conservation of angular momentum— are the same all over the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, one of the most important thermodynamic laws—the so-called Stefan-Boltzmann equation—seems to tie the wiggles of molecules to the wiggles of light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Remarkably, under current law, an actual conviction or finding of a formal violation is not necessary to trigger exclusion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She does not know how or where to join in when her children are talking about Woody Allen movies or real estate tax laws or somebody’s yoga class. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walls sparkle with golden plaques that showcase the imperial beauty laws. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bhaer’s devotion was sincere, however likewise effective—for honesty is the best policy in love as in law. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she takes about three minutes and tells the condensed version of how Bobby became a fugitive from the law. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a good familiarity with the driving laws, the reckless driving laws, the negligent homicide laws. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“A law that says kids have to live in a jail? You’d blame me for breaking a law like that?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Like consent searches, pretext stops are favorite tools of law enforcement in the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I know it’s nothing to you now, but I was from a place—America— where cruelty toward humans who loved as their deepest instincts instructed was a kind of law. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The old-line Wall Street law firms had a very specific idea about what it was that they did. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

This is a simple issue of law: Two men murdered a child. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

"I'm going to have to shut you down. It's the law." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

South African law does not guarantee a defendant the right to legal representation, and thousands upon thousands of indigent men and women went to prison every year for lack of such representation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, a god cannot usurp another god’s symbol of power directly—that is forbidden by the most ancient of divine laws. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“No one knew him. He was one of those leeches, hanging around the school, cornering the teachers to do something about the integration laws. Well, she did something alright.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown; no one can say why...the child often reverts in certain characters to its grandfather.... The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At the same time, however, many of the new civil rights laws were proving largely symbolic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the penalty of law if you refuse to register these names?” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Students went by going up to the law school, or down to the Sorbonne. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There is no need for formal ranks, titles and law books to keep order. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not talking about breaking the law,” Mr. Griffiths continues, not appearing the slightest bit amused. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Might was a law of Nature, needed to keep the survivors fit. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no law against a peaceful demonstration. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And I repeat: The price of the liberation of the white people is the liberation of the blacks—the total liberation, in the cities, in the towns, before the law, and in the mind. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Besides, there’s no law that says you can’t paint swastikas and still be part of the group making a paper chain to fight against them. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The following day El Barrio resembled a country under martial law. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Johnny knew that working on the Sabbath was against the law as well as against all his religious training. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of women have been sent to prison under this law in recent years, rather than getting the help they needed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He smiled and said, “That’s your opinion. But the law is the law. If you don’t hire an attorney yourself, the court will appoint one.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I know I’m just a troublesome old woman. But I know that people cannot flout God’s laws with impunity.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A foedus is a league, or compact, but it is often used as synonymous with lex, and Renaissance commentators on Lucretius interpreted him as talking about the laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Well, what kind of law is it, Ma, that lets a man mistreat his dog?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And contrary to countless barroom conversations, the law of large numbers doesn’t imply the gambler’s fallacy: that a head is more likely after a string of tails. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He himself graduated in law from Leicester University, and now he was going to the LSE to write a doctoral thesis on law and poverty in the third world. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I went back to law school with an intense desire to understand the laws and doctrines that sanctioned the death penalty and extreme punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

How else will they be taught that law and order guarantees their children a brighter future than begging, horse dealing, and petty crime? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It is an Iron law that the soldier must be employed under every circumstance. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Possession is nine tenths of the law, and the Army had the meat and the agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Naw, I’m worried about your hand. If you get hurt then the law’s gonna come and say I have to pay all the doctor bills.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My lawyer tells me that the exterminator is required by law to either post a guard or to arrange for guards to patrol around the houses that are tented.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or at least enough attention to pass laws and voter propositions. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That would violate fundamental laws, we thought Well, we were wrong; we learned to see the world up there. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the law courts the judges were dispensing the King’s new law, instead of file fierce law of Fort Mayne. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Breaking the law is serious. But God gave us free agency," says Gerhard. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that this machine-city was governed by strange laws and I wondered if I would ever learn them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was quite a scandal when they married. She had no money and no connections, but at least she abided by the law. Not like your birth mother.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My room was in the graduate dorms near the law school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Other actors were milling about, finding their places for Act Three, and Justice Strauss was off in a corner, practicing her lines from her law book. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The American colonies passed laws barring people convicted of crimes from a wide variety of jobs and benefits, automatically dissolving their marriages and denying them the right to enter contracts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They ask my thoughts on the latest beauty laws. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

‘I do not think your law was made for such a chance,’ said Aragorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He defined reliable evidence as one would in a court of law: more than one witness, and the witnesses must be of sound mind, not partial or prejudiced. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe that I would actually have a say in who makes the laws in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the 1850s, however, William Thomson, a British physicist, noticed something odd about Charles’ law: the specter of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The law was intended to reduce overgrazing by cattle, but its impact would be to further abridge land for Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was ever my lord husband’s wish to grant sanctuary to these savage peoples. So long as they keep the king’s peace and the king’s laws, they are welcome in our realm.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s against some other law for you to go away from the bank and leave me here. How do you know? I may be a robber.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, I would have hurt him, or even maybe killed him if I could. I’m a person who respects the law, but... sometimes there’s things you can’t help, right?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will be Jewish, of course, and so, locked out of the old-line downtown law firms on account of his “antecedents.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As a result of immunity law, the Court held that a prosecutor cannot be held liable for misconduct in a criminal case, even if he intentionally and illegally withheld evidence of innocence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While an enormous hurdle had been cleared, the suffragists knew their work was not done: Before the amendment would become law, three-fourths of the states needed to ratify it. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

From what I could see, there simply was no commitment to the rule of law, no accountability, and little shame. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The act complies with the requirements of due process of law,” the decision read. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But with drug crime, neither the purchaser of the drugs nor the seller has any incentive to contact law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And that ancient law went into effect which says that when you need towns they are very far apart. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want those laws back,” I say, my voice shaking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Huge cash grants were made to those law enforcement agencies that were willing to make drug-law enforcement a top priority. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“A group of men who have quarrelled with the law cannot be expected to set up a government patterned after the one they antagonized.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being young, funnily enough, I was more worried about getting in trouble with my parents than with the law. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The most famous gun-control law is the Brady Act, passed in 1993, which requires a criminal check and a waiting period before a person can purchase a handgun. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The reason is this: drug-law enforcement is unlike most other types of law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She moved to Chicago in February 1893 and took a job as a stenographer for a law firm. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Finally the new science was given a distinctive identity by a new language of facts, theories, hypotheses and laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The only witness present was his assistant as the Nineteenth Amendment officially became law. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Newton’s laws of motion put an end to the idea of absolute position in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this singularity the laws of science and our ability to predict the future would break down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

By all the laws of conventional physics, atoms shouldn’t therefore exist. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And she’d returned law and order to the town she claimed she didn’t give two hoots about. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Following the collapse of Jim Crow, all of the race-neutral devices for excluding blacks from the electorate were eliminated through litigation or legislation, except felon disenfranchisement laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m from the law firm of Able and Stone,” I heard her say. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I said I needed access to a law library and demanded to be taken to Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll probably have to pass a new law,” I say with a giggle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Beachcomber’s hilarious columns about the Apostropher Royal in The Express, a certain per-versely comforting law is often reiterated: the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

At the time the electric-execution law was passed, questions persisted about whether electric shock would always prove fatal. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Snowden anticipated, American law enforcement agencies were eager to arrest the leaker and haul him home to face charges of violating the Espionage Act. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This brings us to our fourth and final problem: Does God override the laws of nature? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We are above the law, but that does not mean we live in defiance of it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Success in other states followed, with California, Kansas, Arizona, and Oregon passing laws in the next few years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He even talked enthusiastically about going on to get a law degree when he graduated. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

First he reversed the law that had freed the slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The possibility that Mendel had deduced a fundamental natural rule—a dangerous law—by tabulating pea hybrids seemed absurd and far-fetched to Nägeli. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

What a shock it would be were Valeria to stomp right in and start talking to her about the laws of thermodynamics, or the life of Thomas Jefferson, in flawless English. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

On the scientific side, apart from the work on gravity, in 1678 Hooke came up with his best-known piece of work, the discovery of the law of elasticity which bears his name. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The advice to bring zombie nouns back to life as verbs and to convert passives into actives is ubiquitous in style guides and plain language laws. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I also became interested in laws that protect human rights. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

From the White House, President Johnson announced that he was determined to press for a powerful new voting rights law. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

This law held true for private property owners only, however. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren, that’s the law. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good question, Isabella. It’s when people decide to be judge, jury, and executioner without following any laws. People were hanged or shot or imprisoned, without ever getting a proper hearing!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I was told I couldn’t drive him because it was against the law and the authorities would take him at the border rather than let his body cross. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The courses seemed esoteric and disconnected from the race and poverty issues that had motivated me to consider the law in the first place. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Now they’re even talking about passing a law to make ticket scalping illegal.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

These early equation-laws were extremely good at expressing simple relationships, but equations have limitations—their constancy, which prevented them from being universal laws. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He came up for lieutenant, but then he decided to quit the police department altogether and go to law school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were breaking a law that had been established in the South. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The intellectual apparatus of the new science—facts, experiments, theories, laws of nature, evidence—did not establish its worth by philosophical arguments; its success depended upon the fact that, in practice, it produced good results. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At first, these laws were rather weak and generally ignored by all. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

They were in the process of being codified into law when Hsu called Day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“He put the ring in a doughnut. He’s in law school. I won’t have to work unless I want to.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I read that, I thought to myself, What are the Jim Crow laws? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The kidnapper had told him not to involve the law. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By law no apprentice was allowed out so late. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They also debased their currency, undercut the universality of the iron law, and antagonized the Adem.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His projects conduct electricity, engage motion with toothed wheels, react in concert with universal laws of physics. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newton’s God did not direct individual arrows to their targets; he established the laws that determined the flight of each and every arrow. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

According to law, the trashman had to dump his baskets outside the city limits, where the river made a wide bend. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He spoke with the king's voice, commanded the king's armies, drafted the king's laws. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All my life I’ve tried to set my shoes squarely into his footprints, believing if only I stayed close enough to him those same clean, simple laws would rule my life as well. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles isn’t remembered for his aeronautic stunts, but for the law of nature that bears his name. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Haven't you learned? Government leaders are the worst ones for breaking laws. How do you think we got this house? How do you think I got Internet access? How do you think we live?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said, ‘That is my business. I am ready to serve five years but I am not prepared to be bullied. You must act within the law.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of forty- one he started attending Fordham full-time for his law and business degrees. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur Dula, an American lawyer who specializes in laws governing international space-related activities, stated that such discrimination should make Russia's Federal Space Agency ineligible for any more funding from the United States. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

But if Dusty Muleman was starting to obey the law, I thought, how would we ever prove that Dad’s accusations were right? Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The marriage laws in this community are quite simple,” Count Olaf said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The room became an impromptu court of law. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Plessy fought back, hoping to show that the law was unfair. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Like Susan, she’d been smart enough to land herself a job in a blue-chip firm after law school and had then been self-aware enough to realize that she wanted out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some think that the laws of nature are then randomly reshuffled, that the kind of physics and chemistry that orders this universe represent only one of an infinite range of possible natural laws. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he wasn’t married to Constantine’s mother, because that was against the law. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The fact that white people made all the laws, ran the country alone, had not yet entered my mind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most important, under the Netherlands’ more progressive laws for women, Maria could open her own business, train apprentices, and paint whatever she wanted. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The law of the world is a winter law, and casual. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daniel jingled his keys at her and said, “We represent a two-thirds majority,” while I reminded her, “Possession is nine-tenths of the law.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The law also requires that states permanently bar individuals with drug-related felony convictions from receiving federally funded public assistance. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Drug laws in particular have had a huge impact on the number of women sent to prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some historians and legal scholars refer to the United States as “a nation of laws.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Most of these businesses reopened, however, which led temperance workers to realize that they would have to change the laws. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s easy for you to follow the law,” said Pong flatly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Two scientists discovered the law governing the acceleration of falling bodies at around the same time—Harriot and Galileo. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The only exception is for those jobs for which state or local laws expressly bar people with certain specific convictions from employment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All of the financial incentives granted to law enforcement to arrest poor black and brown people for drug offenses must be revoked. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was reviewing his applications for law school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen, let’s don’t be childish! This boy’s going on trial for his life. My job is to enforce the laws of this state. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the law firm would take the lion’s share of the money, leaving only a pittance for the African real estate agent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all of the new procedural rules and formal protections, the law does not address the single most serious problem associated with drug forfeiture laws: the profit motive in drug-law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He thinks back to Psychology 110, wishing his memory would yield some image of her, taking notes on the other side of the law school auditorium, her head bent over her desk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The six laws we singled out were not overturned; but we never had any illusion that they would be. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The feebleminded and the man of genius should not be equal before the law,” he wrote. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For the laws of economics to work, the “players” need to be well informed about their options. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where did Descartes’ conception of a law of nature come from? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The more she learned about the law, the more unfair to women it seemed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“There are chuckles in the Kremlin these days....What is needed most is enough law enforcement, whatever the cost, to put down any further rebellion.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Despite its success, the new laws in North Carolina had rendered the station inoperable—he was visiting the mine merely to leave a message for the underground railroad that he could accept no more passengers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

During that period some medicinal substances were being pressed into service as substitutes for liquor, being exempt from the prohibition law. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was easy to get an Illinois law license in 1868, and after several months, Guiteau learned enough to pass the simple oral examination. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The laws forbade them from employment in certain professions, denied Jewish children an education, and made marriage between Jews and Aryans illegal. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In my first year, I studied English, anthropology, politics, native administration, and Roman Dutch law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our absence was noted, and of course, leaving any gathering before Trujillo is against the law. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, there are no laws against imprisoning apostrophes and making them look daft. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

But it enables us to establish the laws that would need to apply in any possible universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Movement, travel, impermanence, and passing in the night were laws of the tribe. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Michael has never been in trouble with the law before,” the lawyer went on. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The ANC drafted a letter to the prime minister advising him of these resolutions and the deadline for repealing the laws. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

—Phathmus Mouzaive: natural philosopher; liked to declare that his field was no less than “the physical laws of the universe,” but whose focus, in reality, was somewhat narrower: magnetic fields. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My mom was in law enforcement; she was explosive and impossible to please. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even if it was determined that gender discrimination had occurred, that wasn’t against the law yet. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

They took the lands, remade the laws to make their titles good. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law, Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli, or Christ, it's here. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the only spot in Zimbabwe beyond the reach of the law: the Gondwannan Embassy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You are harassing and talking back to an officer of the law,” he shouts. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as Gandhi was working for Balasumdaram, the South Africans passed a new law designed to make life difficult for Indians. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Don’t break the law of the Bible. Don’t go into that gentile church,” he said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more general version of Newton’s law is F = p, where p is an object’s momentum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Court’s ruling in Lyons makes it extremely difficult to challenge systemic race discrimination in law enforcement and obtain meaningful policy reform. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the experimental chambers, Mr. Gitney delivered addresses on our expedition to witness the Transit of Venus and the determination of natural law. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A full compendium of those laws would run more than three thousand pages and weigh approximately ten pounds, but the general thrust of it should be easy enough for any American to understand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But on this side of the highway green fields led directly up to the road’s eastern shoulder—an unnatural setup; obviously the result of a strange, possibly a bad, law. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As previously noted, poll taxes, literacy tests, and felon disenfranchisement laws were all formally race-neutral practices that were employed in order to avoid the prohibition on race discrimination in voting contained in the Fifteenth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But these black Washingtonians were angered and deeply disturbed by the discriminatory laws the city’s government was intent on passing. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s the...what’s that thing called? Oh, yeah, the law. It’s the law.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The strike was to be orderly and peaceful: signs posted in five languages reminded strikers to “Obey the union’s rules to molest no person or property, and abide strictly by the laws of the country.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just hearing it was like violating the law. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1940s and 1950s, the old-line law firms of New York operated like a private club. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In 1936, the same year that Hitler Youth membership became law, other young Germans were tired also of the Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is a regular procedure provided for by the enlightened and progressive laws of our state. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You of all immortals must respect the laws of death.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Another legend claims that we descended from wolves — and that the wolves are our brothers still. It’s against tribal law to kill them. “Then there are the stories about the cold ones.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Everybody else just has to obey the law. We have to obey it twice as well.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The same month we met in Padre de Jesus’ rectory, a new law was passed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was about the facts, and the case, and the law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Did you know at the time,” Knabe said, voice rising, “that he sustained that the state law didn’t apply at all in the city of Montgomery?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I then made application for the recusal of the magistrate on the grounds that I did not consider myself morally bound to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I had no representation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore impeccable three-piece Brooks Brothers suits, Bostonian loafers, and staid horn-rimmed glasses, and he knew the law. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Applying these methods to government, Progressives sought to end the tradition of crooked party bosses packing government agencies, including law enforcement, with patrons and hacks. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Passed in 1917, this law states that anyone who “willfully communicates or transmits” documents related to national defense to others who are not authorized to see them can be fined and/or sent to prison. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The better question is, Can God create a law so big that He himself has to obey it? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

This is voluntarism, and it seems to follow naturally from the idea of laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It says that even if space-time is warped so that it would be possible to travel into the past, what happens in space-time must be a consistent solution of the laws of physics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bound by strong vows that had never been pronounced, obedient to laws that had long since ceased to run, he sat averted and in silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The law enforcement team explained to Leila that there had been an accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Why, then, were they taking to their heels in such numbers that it was necessary to pass a law to compel them to enjoy the benefits they derived from slavery? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of this is to suggest that the financial rewards offered for police participation in the drug war are the only reason that law enforcement decided to embrace the war with zeal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That way he wouldn’t have to pay more than the law should allow to sit his car in an airport lot. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Rosa Vaughan’s suit against Burt, who was represented by one of the same law firms that had represented Hale in the murder trials, was initially dismissed in state court. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“They said it's against the law to have German books.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mac had studied law and was adept at putting the authorities on the defensive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Congress, she argued, was the right body to decide whether the law was still needed. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the statistical description of a gas explains Charles’ law. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Three years later, a tougher second law warned parents who did not comply that their children would be taken from them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the new laws thrilled the country's religious citizens, but my mostly secular family wasn't having it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There is absolutely no reason to suppose that white people are better equipped to frame the laws by which I am to be governed than I am. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“And when I come to you, a commissioned officer of the law,” Jason said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, black women were still prevented from voting in many states because of white supremacist laws already in place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“If you were a woman,” I asked, “would you still study law?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We heard news — which word could not but quicken the blood—of common men rising in the thousands to empty the rural law courts of corruption and expel the un-elected favorites of government. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t think so. I don’t think they’d want you to know about that. The problem is, some people think they’re above the law. There are plenty of good reasons why we have so much regulation.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“The first law states that an object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion unless an external force acts upon it.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The US Congress was close to enacting a law that would prohibit the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“J.J. really knows how to work the law, doesn’t he? That old Chatham doesn’t have a chance, not one chance in hell.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

There may be some laws about this kind of communication, mandating a critical density and mass before it can function with efficiency. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On March 25, Governor Jon Huntsman signed into law the toughest ban in the country on texting while driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The law binds my hands and my actions. You must return with your mistress,” he said, concentrating on his task. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, you must know that there are two modes of fighting: one in accordance with the laws, the other with force. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The election would determine everything from the fate of the new health-care law to whether America would be part of the global effort to combat climate change. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ms. Morengo's law firm spent more than two months going through all the papers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

If you evolve such a universe forward in time according to the laws of science, you will end up with the lumpy and irregular state you started with. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past decade, the United States government and law enforcement agencies around the world have documented that some of these North Koreans are involved in criminal enterprises that funnel hard currency to Pyongyang. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were often full of messy feelings, having trouble with relationships, trouble keeping a job, trouble staying out of trouble with the law. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was ignorant of the inverse square law for light propagation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he wouldn’t vote for such a law, arguing that it was just another example of the government sticking its nose into people’s business. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Headlines cluster and flash across the parchment, announcing Princess Sophia's upcoming engagement, and the latest imperial beauty laws to be passed by the queen and the Beauty Minister. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A vocational school student had sent a matchbook application to a correspondence law school along with the required, but now missing, dollar bill. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One can take this either as evidence of a divine purpose in Creation and the choice of the laws of science or as support for the strong anthropic principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

History lessons remind us that the states in which we live, their institutions, even their laws, have come to us through conflict, often of the most bloodthirsty sort. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If firings had fallen out different, Lyra, you might have been brought up a gyptian, because the nurse begged the court to let her have you; but we gyptians got little standing in the law. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Mayan people were governed by a system in which the priesthood and the nobility shared the power to make and enforce laws that affected all of Mayan society. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Claiming that the ghettos were in danger of disintegrating into anarchy instigated by the ANC, the Afrikaans papers urged the government to use maximum force to restore law and order. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you’ll get your degree. Those tax laws are complicated!” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Nothing to gambling, for a poor man. There ought to be a law against it.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, pretending to conform to the laws of the whites, grinning, bowing, they let their fingers stick to what they could touch. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ubiquity of illegal drug activity, combined with its consensual nature, requires a far more proactive approach by law enforcement than what is required to address ordinary street crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Yes, but an almost all-powerful entity can figure out a way to give me what I ask without breaking its own laws, can’t it? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"Some trifling affront. He sold some poachers to a Tyroshi slaver instead of giving them to the Night's Watch. Ab-surd law. A man should be able to do as he likes with his own chattel." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Release your weapon. Let the law handle this.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He had taken a degree in law and was happy to have forgotten the whole experience. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Before I’d even enrolled in kindergarten, he began preparing me for a shining career in medicine—or, failing that, law as a poor consolation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One effect of these laws was an increase in the prison population, over the next twenty-five years, of 560 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let him keep you on one condition: that he take the job as warden of Namwon, so that he would never forget the price of turning away from the law. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“They keep law and order. They arrest criminals.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

How I cursed Dr. Verwoerd and his law for prescribing how I should feel and think. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you leave, you lose Spanish protection and are subject to the laws of the colonies.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping track of the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy is as difficult as keeping track of the tax laws in the nineteen fifties and sixties in the United States. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In February 1989, Eva Ansley and I opened our new nonprofit law center in Tuscaloosa, dedicated to providing free, quality legal services to condemned men and women on death row in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For his part, Walter had always stayed clear of the courts and far away from the law. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“True, quite true. The law is the law, and since it is, then I assume you will not mind if I review each new edition of this paper before it is distributed, correct?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The silent treatment merely gave approval of the mob taking the law into its hands. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, the older Dicey reasoned, her father had probably broken the law. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conservatives could point to black support for highly punitive approaches to dealing with the problems of the urban poor as “proof” that race had nothing to do with their “law and order” agenda. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Darwin writes that man is liable to slight variations, which are induced by general and complex laws.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Did such a law uniquely require that planets must follow elliptical orbits? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The fundamental postulate of the theory of relativity, as it was called, was that the laws of science should be the same for all freely moving observers, no matter what their speed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesus Christ died on the cross because the Pharisees of His day were upholding their law, not the spirit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, we were met by another crowd of supporters, so that the hall seemed more like a raucous protest meeting than a staid court of law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police force responded by declaring that the regulation banning them from forming a union was “invalid, unreasonable and contrary to the express law of Massachusetts.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Go to college, get a law degree, and then you’ll be able to have a real impact.’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He frantically searched the room for someone to help but saw only law enforcement personnel and reporters. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before the Thunderhead achieved consciousness, when it was merely known as “the cloud,” criminals—and even public agencies—would find ways into people’s private doings, against the law, and exploit that information. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Who can say?...The communists want law and order destroyed in America....They want riots in the streets, and demonstrations on the campus. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court ruled the death penalty for nonhomicides unconstitutional and international law strongly disfavors the practice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When they turned twenty the land’d go over into their name—law said they could do that, put it in their kids’ name at twenty.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The law would require that students and teachers inform the administration if they thought someone in the school might be interested in doing harm to students, teachers, or school property. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgment, not till he’s shown his colors, ruling the people, making laws. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but. . . they wouldn’t do anything against the law to get gold.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They are barred by law from doing so. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sisters voiced suspicions about their brother and about local law enforcement but complained that the prosecutor had disrespected and ignored them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Can’t we black people make our own laws? Alexandra is our world, isn’t it? And white people have their own world.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the hall from his office is a law firm, affiliated with Kavesh and Gau, that handles wills and living trusts and all other legal matters related to financial planning. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But was this an inevitable consequence of an inverse square law? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

From her distinguished post at the Smithsonian, she battled on behalf of the law of environmental limitation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Kepler’s laws were empirical, based upon the painstaking observations of Tycho Brahe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If heredity too had a universal natural law, then it was likely influencing the genesis of peas as much as the genesis of humans. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The new law placed a limit on the number of Jews allowed to attend elementary schools, secondary schools, and universities. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Laughing is against the law. Don’t you have a rule book? It’s local ordinance 574381-W.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The law failed to stem the cotton tide. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

All three of Kepler’s laws of planetary motion can be derived from Newtonian principles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In June, an escort officer up on T-and-Y had marched with a law enforce-ment contingent in New York City’s annual Puerto Rico Day parade. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He calls it the “law of the second bite.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The law is very clear. All clones are classified as livestock because they’re grown inside cows. Cows can’t give birth to humans.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a devout man, and, even with all his impatience, he wanted to live his life in accordance with Muslim law. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of the guys from my army company is now the vice president of a bank. Another owns his own law firm. And another is a judge.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “There is virtually no case law whatsoever in the entire United States that has addressed it. The technology is just too new.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

An ice cream vendor near La Arrocera adds, “If you turn them in, they get out, and they come after you. They operate by light of day. There is no law here.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The tall man was the Texas Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer for the state. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

These standards were not peculiar to any one system of law but were generally acknowledged throughout Europe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The men studied medicine, law, theology, and emerged repeatedly in the powerless government offices available to the native population. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In law, a covenant is a contract or other agreement between people or groups, in which they agree to do or not do a particular thing. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Under the law he belongs to his father, ma’am.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“That’s me,” I say, “I was the youngest boy. I turn thirteen in twenty-seven days and officially become a man according to Prentisstown law.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Science was barren of the idea that underlying the phenomena of Nature might be the laws of physics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it follows from Newton’s laws that there is no unique standard of rest. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

These rules have made it possible for law enforcement agencies to boost dramatically their rates of drug arrests and convictions, even in communities where drug crime is stable or declining. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“No. I told him we'd been married four years. You see, darling, if I marry you I'll be an American and any time we’re married under American law the child is legitimate.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Consequently, the Greeks and the Romans were incapable of formulating the idea of laws of nature, and without them they could not develop modern science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Our lives were not without anxiety, since our relatives in Germany were suffering Under Hitler’s anti-Jewish laws. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

While most of her workweek is devoted to commercial law, Justice spends Mondays in family court, representing families with the kind of problems hers had. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In Albert Dussel’s home his word is law, but that doesn’t suit Anne Frank in the least. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This idea was hard for the Pythagoreans to believe, but it was incontrovertible—a consequence of the mathematical laws that they held so dear. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“No! She broke the law! She deserves to go to jail!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

According to Florida law, dependency cases are supposed to be brought before the court every six months. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Practicing magic is a sin against God and a violation of the law,” Sir Fabian announced. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Homework First” was the law from September to June. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Congress later expanded the law to include Hispanic, Asian, Native American and other minority citizens, and in so doing, transformed America’s political landscape. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I spoke at local meetings and tried to sensitize people to the need to insist on accountability from law enforcement. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He then attended law school and, following graduation, opened a small law practice while still in his early twenties. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The second law of thermodynamics results from the fact that there are always many more disordered states than there are ordered ones. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am the law,” the Director rages, then motions to his private security detail. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

You may think that this is simply because Galileo’s law is incomplete: Newton’s theory of gravity provides an explanation both of Galileo’s law of fall and of Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

R.C. ain’t no saint, not by a long shot, but my boy’s white, and the law got no business worrying him ’bout some black boy floated up in the Tallahatchie.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

What I meant was being a fugitive from the law. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would still have to pass the Senate and be signed into law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Women do have rights here too, you know. Even Dominican law grants that." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

During Council’s trial, one of his lawyers pointed out that the driver was merely upholding North Carolina’s segregation law. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We, the Klan, were following God’s laws, he said. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, this drug forfeiture regime proved highly lucrative for law enforcement, offering more than enough incentive to wage the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Far away I see the glow of Erudite headquarters, their lights violating our energy conservation laws. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the United States might develop into a nation of laws and established institutions capable of surviving corrupt or incompetent public officials. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Then why did you break the law if you knew it was most important not to?” came the retort. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nok, the Governor came to me not even an hour ago and asked me to change the laws so he could do exactly as you say.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

That changed in the 1980s, when local law enforcement agencies suddenly had access to cash and military equipment specifically for the purpose of conducting drug raids. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the National party refused to end apartheid; instead, each year the system was fortified by the promulgation of laws to entrench white rule and privilege. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rader did most of the talking at the press conference, and he was good at it, having graduated first in his class from law school. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans, with their law and order, with their traffic lights everywhere — how could the Americans of all people do this? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now called the Sugar Act, the law was designed to make sure the American colonists stopped smuggling and paid their sugar tax. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The law helped transform the country into a police state; no dictator could covet more power than the Ninety-Day Detention Law gave to the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing sanctified about the laws of the streets—the laws were amoral and practical. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m the law around here. I didn’t like you before, and I like you even less now that I know you’re only here to make trouble for this decent little town.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They kept their secrets, becoming a kind of gateway beyond which I believed there was a world of law and reason. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We would have to be married under Italian law and the formalities were terrific. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Few legal rules meaningfully constrain the police in the drug war, and enormous financial incentives have been granted to law enforcement to engage in mass drug arrests through military-style tactics. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid recognized him as the brother-in- law in photographs, not as the young man who left on a ship. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no law against keeping of but by all means drop it if you want to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white judges, the intimidating police, the insulting drivers, and the crushing weight of all the years of custom and law were simply overwhelming. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

But the crucial modern inventions depend on prior scientific discoveries: in the case of the steam engine, Boyle’s law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It would be better if we had no courts of law, than that justice should be administered under such conditions! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That may be true, Dan. But our local guy says he was not aware of that law.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

More repressive laws designed to suppress black anger sailed through Parliament with little opposition; more black informants were recruited to report on events in the ghettos. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the argument, he says, that Antigone makes in burying her brother Polynices: it may be against the arbitrary and temporary law of the tyrant Creon, but not against the unwritten law of justice. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“The law of Leviticus states ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life.’ Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Five miles over the speed limit is against the daggone law.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, law and order rhetoric—first employed by segregationists—would eventually contribute to a major realignment of political parties in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1927, the state of Indiana passed a revised version of an earlier law to sterilize “confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hooke, though, told the other two that he could derive all the laws of planetary motion starting out from the assumption of an inverse square law. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The more troublesome offenders were tweaked with shock nanites in their blood, just powerful enough to deter any scoffing of the law. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That was the law there and they meant it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She needs to be firmer, lay down the law for Dad instead of getting hysterical all the time. What Dad needs is a strong woman.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The reply came: Keeping still, so that restlessness dissolves; then, beyond the tumult, one can perceive the great laws. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the old king, afraid the desperation would lead the people into disorder, had imposed strict laws with harsh punishments. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He taught that the laws of Nature could be deduced by pure thought. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jim Crow laws denied blacks access to the white world at the most basic levels. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

By way of example, there was no primary law requiring the use of seat belts by drivers, and no law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He found his way down a pink-wallpapered hallway and into a room with a huge wooden desk that looked like the kind of place where a president might sign a bill into law. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Something always stopped him: bad luck, a racial barrier, a law, his own vanity or arrogance or fear of losing face. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a violation of the first law of thermodynamics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The new race laws forbid colored men and women from setting foot on North Carolina soil. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Even when agents seemed to be moving on the right track, they had not managed to produce any evidence that would be admissible in a court of law. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But, beyond that, like the planets around the Sun following Kepler’s third law, the outer provinces rotate progressively more slowly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew from personal experience how crime existed only to the degree that the law cooperated with it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under naval law, a ship’s crew is free of obligation when the ship sinks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We got a law here in this town.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was a man of high professional standards, a careful and deliberate, exacting judge who held himself to the letter of the law, however soporifically. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stand such blithe defiance of petty laws. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, as civilization developed, and particularly in the last 300 years, more and more regularities and laws were discovered. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then lamented that the law no longer authorized the execution of children because he just couldn't wait to put this fourteen-year-old boy in the electric chair and kill him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By the summer following passage of the law, nine thousand blacks in Dallas County had been registered to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can, by law, change the outside, I thought. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I have that high-powered law firm intern money.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The laws are neither threatening nor friendly, just citing the facts: No person shall require any white female to nurse in wards or rooms in which negro men are placed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s a difference between breaking a rule and bending a rule. We borrowed twenty bucks from a billionaire. We bent a law. Plus, we returned the wallet?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The upshot of all this is that physics ended up with two bodies of laws–one for the world of the very small, one for the universe at large–leading quite separate lives. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Its constituents are men and women and children of all ages, folks on the dodge from collection agencies, relationships gone sour, the law or the IRS, Ohio winters, the middle- class grind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Connecticut General Assembly had made laws about how much you could charge for things. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That," said the AC, "seems to be the point. U. N. Owen dealt with cases that the law couldn't touch." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The laws of Nature must be identical no matter who is describing them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Professor Dash asked me whether I took any encouragement from the government’s stated intention of repealing die mixed-marriage laws and certain other apartheid statutes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty years later, the General Assembly passed a law prefiguring the Nazi requirement that Jews wear yellow Stars of David. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Outraged by the lack of local law enforcement interest in the case, the black community and civil rights activists persuaded the United States Department of Justice to get involved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Practically overnight the budgets of federal law enforcement agencies soared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s against the law for black people to own houses,” my mother said matter-of-factly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That seemed the most effective way to overthrow segregationist Jim Crow laws. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Ottoman law, Turks must occupy a city’s highest ground, so the convoy is high above the city now, heading down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Puma reinforced my sense that the work was awful, that prison guards were the dentists of the law enforcement world. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This blatant disregard of the law outraged the packinghouse owners; future cases were removed to the court of another community where the law was better upheld. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Those sorts of laws don’t get enforced out here. You know that.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But for the most part the new scientists avoided the word ‘evidence’ because it inevitably carried with it an implicit reference to the law courts—a reference that Sprat was willing to make explicit. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The rules governing jury selection provide yet another illustration of the Court’s complete abdication of its responsibility to guarantee racial minorities equal treatment under the law. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

More to the point, a modern list of laws would have deeply puzzled Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had ideas for writing a book about race in America and planned, he said, to find work that aligned with his values, which most likely meant he wouldn’t end up in corporate law. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some aspects of Islamic law are observed in Iran's legal system, but today the country mostly operates under civil law, ratified by the parliament. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We need to know more about the law. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the classical theory of general relativity one cannot predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were born at the right time with the right parents and the right ethnicity, which allowed them to practice takeover law for twenty years before the rest of the legal world caught on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Most of them worried that the school integration law had started things going in a bad way, and that Northern rabble-rousers would use the trial to force other changes in the South. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then again, how many business or law students ever visit their old professors once they leave? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sort of mathematical homunculus—an idea borrowed from Pythagoras and Plato—but dressed up with fractions and denominators into a modern-sounding law. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He said slowly: “You know a great deal about the law.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If you work hard and follow the law, good things happen to you. ‘The law is the light, and the light shines on the worthy.’" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

After his sojourn among the scientists and engineers of Aberdeen, Loomis returned home to find the practice of law at the Stimson firm unutterably dull. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And laws started to keep Iranians out of America—even just to visit. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Life on Winter is hard to live, and people there generally leave death to nature or to anger, not to law. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw,” he said, “was an obsession with order. One sees it in their architecture, their literature, their laws—this fierce denial of darkness, unreason, chaos.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

More are disenfranchised today than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Those laws said whites and blacks should be separated in all public places: drinking fountains, parks, trains, buses, downtown food counters, and public schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It turns out, this special person is also studying law in the capital, although he’s two years ahead of her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to boil them down, from Customary, Canon and Roman law, into a single code which he hoped to call the Civil one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The law said they could not own land unless they became citizens; it also said they could not become citizens so long as they were Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you read carefully, the laws only cover hunting with weapons,” he informed me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Of course, there had to be laws on the books before one could press to enforce them. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Miguel was a pale student, with feverish eyes, faded trousers, and miner’s boots, in his final year of law school. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having a law license didn't get him much business, however. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

International law, in effect, has been trumped by the strategic interests of North Korea and China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It did not say how the laws should be chosen and it did not specify the initial configuration of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Hey, Charley, why don’t you run down for me again what the law is about that water, okay? Just so 1 can get it straight in my mind.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Citra’s investigation was troubling, yet try as he might, Rowan could not find a single instance since he’d been in Goddard’s presence where Goddard did anything that was illegal by scythe law. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The law says the penalty is harsher if someone should have known of the risks and harsher still—manslaughter—if the person does know the risks and wantonly disregards them. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mandatory drug sentencing laws strip judges of their traditional role of considering all relevant circumstances in an effort to do justice in the individual case. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

"He was within the law. Now wasn't that the wise thing to do?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Klaus sighed, and relinquished—a word which here means “gave to Count Olaf even though he didn’t want to”—the book on nuptial law. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were new laws now, because of Denmark. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes on to say that it wasn’t a career in law enforcement that killed him but two packs of cigarettes a day. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Knocked on her door so early in the morning Alice thought it was the law. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The law ends at the Wall, Your Grace. You could make good use of Mance.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The technological advances defined by laws of Moore and Metcalfe got married and long since overtook what our brains can handle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Under sharia law, which applied to domestic and inheritance matters, the testimony of two women carried the weight of that of one man. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Catholic Church had made a bad mistake with Galileo when it tried to lay down the law on a question of science, declaring that the sun went round the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better than wading through a sea of law enforcement. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was this obscure need that had pulled me into the labor movement in the beginning and by exercising it I was but fulfilling what I felt to be the laws of my own growth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Town law don't want no cons loitering. Gotta take you back." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Though he claims that by justice the bird is his, by the law of the land it belongs to Simon’s father, since it was captured on his land. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Barack’s teaching duties at the law school had wrapped up for the semester, and I’d put in for time off at my job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Voting rights were taken away from African Americans, and a series of racially restrictive laws enforced the racial hierarchy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many of these men still stood by the rule of law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked earnest questions about what kind of work might be available to a lawyer who didn’t, in fact, want to practice law. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Since there are serious consequences to misinterpreting these statements as absolute laws, a responsible writer should insert a qualifier like on average or all things being equal, together with a slightly or somewhat. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Phineas had been working as a security guard in the city for ten years, and in that time, because of Influx Control laws, he had visited his wife and children only ten times. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spoke regularly with Verna Williams, a close friend from law school, who until recently had been living in Cambridge. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He asked Dr. Strayer if talking on a phone while driving was against the law in Utah. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She knew he was right; the laws didn’t protect us—they were apparently only there to protect whites from us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The black businessman and the black maid were undifferentiated by the law that forced them to the rear of the bus. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newton kicked up a fuss about the use of the word ‘hypothesis’; but there was no comparable debate about theories, facts, or laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I am here to remind you all of the price of breaking the law. Tell me, child, are the nights dark here in Namwon?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

By law, it was the Treasury Department that had to enforce these acts, and Elizebeth and her team were the Treasury’s “eyes and ears.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Many states—more than thirty, in fact—had passed laws protecting the confidentiality of a patient’s medical records, but Maryland was not one of them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It is remarkable that we have all accepted this, without hooting, as though it simply conformed to a law of nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four hundred Customs and Border Protection agents and officers deputized for local law enforcement. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The federalization of drug crime violated the conservative tenet of states’ rights and local control, as street crime was typically the responsibility of local law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She says why keep her promesa when Mama and Papa still won’t let her go to law school in the capital? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Advisory Board meetings were perfunctory and bureaucratic, but the ANC meetings were lively with debate and discussion about Parliament, the pass laws, rents, bus fares — any subject under the sun that affected Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our moral laws were policed by our Fmit of Islam—able, dedicated, and trained Muslim men. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even with this incentive, getting through the law books in Justice Strauss’s private library was a very, very, very hard task. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Alcohol was against the law then as much as it was in 1917, but folks could usually get a bottle of the stuff here or there. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before the law could declare him to be just another piece of property subject to disposal as the tailor’s heirs saw fit, Jones applied to the courts for protection and obtained a certificate of freedom. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

State law required credible corroboration of accomplice testimony in a murder case, and there simply wasn't any in Walter's case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

T. R. Wexler had a master's degree in business administration, an advanced degree in corporate law, and had served two years as legal counsel to the Westing Paper Products Corporation. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he encountered a wave of enemy resistance to this attack, he stuck to his position without regard for his safety or reputation and gallantly invoked the law of supply and demand. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The French, by contrast, had a Roman law system. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Why would eighteenth-century musicians have wanted to do away with nature’s musical laws? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“White people make laws because they’ve been making all the laws since they took over our country.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

To this reader, at least, it can hardly be argued that Mendel was unaware of the far-reaching implications of his study: he was trying to unlock the material basis and laws of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The new racial caste system operates unimpeded by the Fourteenth Amendment and federal civil rights legislation—laws designed to topple earlier systems of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They lost in the lower courts, so they appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that the federal protections of a citizen’s right to vote superseded any state law that says otherwise. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I take it you have perused the laws of your state? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The “drug-courier profiles” utilized by the DEA and other law enforcement agencies for drug sweeps on highways, as well as in airports and train stations, are notoriously unreliable. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The result of these discriminatory laws is that virtually every job application, whether for dog catcher, bus driver, Burger King cashier, or accountant, asks people with criminal records to “check the box.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When he was given the opportunity to study law in England, he faced the same problem as the indentured sugar workers: He would lose caste if he crossed the black water. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

On t’other hand, the law allows any man to avenge the violation of his wife, and the dead man’s lawyers argued that he were doing just that. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s against the law to bark without using the barking meter. Are you ready to be sentenced?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

While I examine my patients, I teach them Nature’s laws regarding disease. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Many times I asked Elzbieta the wife, “When will the law be over? When can I go to the ovens?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Descartes’ conception of the laws of nature was deeply influential. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now repenting of their wickedness, the Bible explains, the tribes resolved to “go to a distant land never yet inhabited by man, and there at last to be obedient to their laws.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The black-market came to an end at the very moment when the Presidential Palace was bombed, because speculators were threatened with martial law and execution by firing squad. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, our intuitions and perceptions might allow us to grasp these natural laws. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“How could I possibly not know the law?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

One day, much later, when I was practicing law in Johannesburg, a young woman and her mother walked into my office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her quiet defiance inspired the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott, mobilizing Montgomery’s black community and resulting in a Supreme Court decision that Alabama laws requiring segregation on city buses were unconstitutional. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adams went to his grave claiming that these laws never enjoyed his support, that their chief sponsors were Federalist extremists in the Congress, and that he had signed them grudgingly and reluctantly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“No,” my mother said, “black people can’t carry guns. It’s against the law.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After nine months, the woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Now the parents’ joy turned to grief, for the law said that twins were evil and must be killed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aristotle names five of them: laws, witnesses, contracts, tortures, and oaths. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Even though many of these children have done nothing wrong, they are targeted by police, presumed guilty, and suspected by law enforcement of being dangerous or engaged in criminal activity. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’d helped pass a law, spoken at numerous events, put himself out in front of three hundred people in Washington, D.C., at the conference organized by Secretary LaHood. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

According to Icelandic law, a wife receives 100 percent of her husband’s estate if there are no children and only one-third if there is one child or more. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The laws of at least one town required automobile drivers to stop, get out, and fire off Roman candles every time horse-drawn vehicles came into view. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night remained calm and still, but Matthias and Constance stayed alert, both knowing if they failed to observe this rudimentary law of nature, the penalty could be fatal. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Yet as more and more women followed in Elizebeth’s footsteps, taking jobs in intelligence, technical analysis, and law enforcement, she began to be remembered more often. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Purchases will be required by law to end in either zero or five. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I did not sign the document in my own hand, as the law states,” Violet said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

But even before that law, most states gave annual standardized tests to students in elementary and secondary school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Suburban homemakers could have been placed under surveillance and subjected to undercover operations designed to catch them violating laws regulating the use and sale of prescription “uppers.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But you heard the ranger—they’ve been looking for a way to get him off our island. Sounds like he can’t risk breaking any more laws.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

By foiling the heist, Hale had reinforced his reputation for upholding law and order. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some laws of physics would be reassuring right now. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The CIA also admitted that, in the midst of the War on Drugs, it blocked law enforcement efforts to investigate illegal drug networks that were helping to fund its covert war in Nicaragua. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By law, white-collar jobs and skilled-labor jobs were reserved for whites. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That bothered the social workers and the forces of the law more than anything else. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One man may put it down to sun spots while another invoking the law of probabilities doesn’t believe it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff and local judges enforced the law only when it suited the coal companies. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Our civil suit ran up against laws that give police, prosecutors, and judges special immunity from civil liability in criminal justice matters. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Order was drawn from chaos by cunningly applied laws tested on previous moving days. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It certainly seemed bizarre to my guards, who said I would not need a law degree where I was going. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the law was applied much more broadly, and soon thousands of mothers with children living in poor, marginalized communities where drugs and drug addiction are rampant were at risk of prosecution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was an extremely shy, gentle young man of twenty-two or -three, a law student at N.Y.U., and altogether a very memorable person. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Gill nets, by law, must be on board by nine o’clock—is that right, Sheriff Moran?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the Nuremberg Code —like other codes that would come after it—wasn’t law. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And the waitress will, by law, have to serve me? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Secondly, it is a question about intellectual tools: the concept of laws of nature, for example, shapes the sorts of questions scientists ask and the sorts of answers nature provides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Here he is in a court of law with the evidence displayed and the testimony given, the facts all aired and the arguments made and the truth of the matter manifest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are no formal institutions, such as laws, police, and treaties, to resolve conflicts within and between bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because Obie was certain of one thing as if it was a natural law, like gravity—Renault wasn’t going to sell the chocolates. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right before the court date, I spent one whole Saturday night on my laptop, researching custody laws in Ohio. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“By invoking the ‘treasure trove’ notion of common law,” said Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Laws were passed prohibiting sex between Europeans and natives, laws that were later amended to prohibit sex between whites and all nonwhites. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Standing in my own private hallway looking at my own private intercom can’t be against the law, can it? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One couldn’t be sure, but the impression was there that any model placing the sugar-phosphate backbone in the center of a helix forced atoms closer together than the laws of chemistry allowed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; and, by a terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The result is that there is no agreement on how to answer the question ‘What is a law of nature?’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And so it was not so difficult to see why Father Mike decided to flee his marriage, and why he needed money . . . . . . none of which, however, could Milton read in his brother-in- law’s eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Southern Baptist Mission League gave us this hint, without coming right out and telling us to flout the law of the forty-four pounds, and from there we made our plan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martial law is the last step before everything falls apart. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At any given time, two or three law students studied under her father, and many of them delighted in teasing Elizabeth about her passion for equality. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Tribal law was perfectly clear on that point: boys and girls had different duties, and unfortunately, the nastiest ones fell on the girls. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They represented, he liked to say, his authority as an officer of the law. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was not one of the reformers who had campaigned for Prohibition, but she believed in the rule of law, and the rise of the gangsters appalled her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was, perhaps, no more bizarre illustration of the conflation between cleansing and racial cleansing than a law that barred Jews from employing “German maids” in their houses. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A notice inviting public comment on that proposed new law would be published in the Federal Register in October 1973, just a few months after Hsu called Day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But Newton was a great one for rewriting history in his own favour, and the inverse square law emerged much more gradually than the story suggests. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The fellow sounded rather sinister to me, like a fugitive from the law or someone hiding from his family. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, he’s very high up, very important. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had something to do with the law. Or the government. Was he very grand and proud?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Although chemical manufacturers are required by law to test their materials for toxicity, they are not required to make the tests that would reliably demonstrate genetic effect, and they do not do so. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By an unwritten law, it was a boys’ store. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far, in tracing the idea of a law of nature, we have been following an established line of argument. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In a few years, when her older cousin retires, Justice will most likely take over the practice, a solid prospect, though far less lucrative, and less glamorous, than a partnership at her Lexington law firm. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Board represented the law of the land and not merely the abstract recommendations of a federal commission. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a law that says you must go to school...and I guess you should. You are nine years old. And I must go to war. The government is fighting somewhere.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We just decided to take a walk. What, there’s a law in this town against taking a walk?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed uncharacteristically powerless and contrite, a far cry from the tough, resolute and absolute ruler of the house I knew him to be, the father whose words were law. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Is there a law? Show me the law, and I'll turn off my radio." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And yet the laws and customs governing segregation in the nation’s capital weren’t nearly as strict as those in the cities of the Deep South. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The more time I spent in jail, the more I realized that the law isn’t rational at all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This was the state of the art in the mid-1800s, and it seemed to mesh perfectly with the laws of statistical mechanics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: “For every apostrophe omitted from an it’s, there is an extra one put into an its.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Almost two-thirds of the students at Kabul University were women now, Babi said, women who were studying law, medicine, engineering. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Thirty-six states enacted laws that gave victims specific rights to participate in the trial process or to make victim impact statements. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Those laws you were carrying around? About what the—” Miss Hilly look back at me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Armed with real numbers, Galton could now find the elusive “law of heredity” that he had hunted so ardently for decades. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Constance, would you please let the rat up? Much as I would like to see him get his just desserts, you must remember we cannot break the law of hospitality in our Abbey.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Don't say such a thing! It's still our country, no matter who leads us. We must obey the law. I hate the thought of war, too, but we must defend the Fatherland, no matter what." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Is there a law against doing both things at once?" he asked. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Unable to think of answers, Amarante just stood still, his hat off in the presence of the law, grinning and wheezing laboriously, playing the fool. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I figure if we break one law, we might as well break another.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s against the law to have your boom boxes turned up like that,” one cop said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lived in Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, who channeled some part of her grief over losing her daughter into fighting for better gun laws. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some said Caesar planned to pass a law so that he could have two wives. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Forrest lets me poke around his law office,” he said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can appeal, as above, to the written or universal law in support or against a given contract. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

These figures reflected in the mirror are slightly askew, as if a different law of gravity, a different arrangement of space, exists inside, locked in, sealed up in the glass as if in a paperweight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Laws stripping people of their rights were inevitably described as laws restoring those rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In theory, a drug-courier profile reflects the collective wisdom and judgment of a law enforcement agency’s officials. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Volstead Act, which banned the manufacture, sale, and transfer of alcoholic beverages, was now the law of the land. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The law enforcement methods described in chapter 2 have been employed almost exclusively in poor communities of color, resulting in jaw-dropping numbers of African Americans and Latinos filling our nation’s prisons and jails every year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I returned to Johannesburg at the beginning of 1943,1 enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand for an LL.B., a bachelor of laws degree, the preparatory academic training for a lawyer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had grandparents who’d lived through the horror of Jim Crow laws and the humiliation of housing discrimination and basically mistrusted authority of any sort. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In Philadelphia, she heard stories about three different runaways who had run afoul of the law, for these stories were being told everywhere —North and South. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seven cents between him and starvation and the law and the long days ahead. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s against the law. You know the penalty.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Soup! Gor! That’s against the law ” “Yes,” said the princess, “my father outlawed it because my mother died while she was eating it. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Retiring from politics, he entered private law practice, which he pursued until his death in 1936. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

C. J. inspected the bags—it was a relief to see that the monkeys were double-bagged or triplebagged—and he decided to take them back to Fort Detrick and worry about health laws afterward. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a law of the rackets that every criminal expects to get caught. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, free men still needed to obey laws, but only if they had a say, a voice, in making those rules. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the sublunary sphere it might seem easy to formulate some general laws: all living creatures die; children take after their parents. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“A representative from the law firm is on the phone now,” she said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Are you thinking of breaking the law? You'd better tell me." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Conformable to the Orgota law that each “unit” must have employment, I work from Eighth Hour to noon in a plastics factory. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was a radical change: the ANC’s policy had always been to keep its activities within the law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, if you looked carefully, all the chaotic and complex phenomena of the world were the result of highly organized natural laws. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The five-year limit on benefits, however, is not the law’s worst feature. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Against regulations. These birds are protected by federal law.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had it not been for the tribal law which forbade children from intruding in adult conversations, I would have long said something, for I too had strong opinions about what was being discussed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now the state was about to bring the law back, proving conclusively that the danger for Tennesseans isn’t so much that they may be descended from apes as overtaken by them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If the tide of bad press and angry editorials about the potential law continued, they both agreed that it would be sunk before it ever had a chance to be tested. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For Newton to explain the laws of the universe, he had to ignore the illogic within his calculus—an illogic caused by a division by zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She spoke of taxation, child custody, and inheritance laws that treated women unfairly. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“To hell with the law,” he said angrily. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

These laws operate collectively to ensure that the vast majority of people convicted of crimes will never integrate into mainstream, white society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He reiterated his concerns, but he changed the emphasis of his opposition to whether a law like this could be enforceable. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But these were troubled times and technically, as per the law, he was an innocent man. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Khomeini came to power, he founded the Islamic Republic of Iran and introduced Islamic law to the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Shortly before he met McCandless, however, one of his talents had got him in trouble with the law. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout Europe, wherever the influence of Roman law was felt, the law concerned itself with the factum—the deed, or crime. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As she hurried to the door, she heard the sheriff say, "The law will punish Sam. And God will punish you." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In 1782 the Virginia legislature passed a law permitting slave owners to free their slaves at their own discretion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The trouble was that most patients refused to be photographed, and hospitals were afraid of law suits. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

English kings had allowed their subjects to participate in making laws through representatives in Parliament. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I recounted in detail the numerous times the government had used the law to hamper my life, career, and political work, through bannings, restrictions, and trials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He also ran away. The fugitive laws suggest how often.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zakariyya had been in and out of trouble with the law since he got out of jail, with various charges for assault and drunk and disorderly conduct. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was one of those laws of children, like their tendency to be least grateful when you were trying your hardest to please them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like Claudette, he had vowed to study law in the North and then return home to “destroy everything segregated I could find.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The school desegregation laws established in 1954 were little more than a piece of paper in Alabama because, thus far, nothing had changed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Brewing home beer was one thing, because the Prohibition law only profited the bootleggers. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Goodale called Louis Loeb to update him, and to suggest the law firm begin preparing to be in court in the morning. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The law that applied to her was the law of sacrificial love. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"What kind of thing are you talking about? Do you mean something illegal? Breaking the law?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The contact page only listed a general email address and phone number for the law office. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And so we scramble to do what he says, because red-handed is red-handed, and this is martial law, and Jacqui’s motivational poster is truer than anything right now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“He shouldn’t even be here if he is not going to believe in the laws we learn,” Lloyd said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prohibition was on in those days, which meant that selling liquor was against the law. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when a law school classmate, Charles Bliss, moved to Atlanta for a job with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, we realized that if we pooled our meager salaries, we could afford a low-rent apartment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the king’s own castle, against the king’s law, right under the king’s very nose, Cook was making soup! The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The laws were intended for her benefit—to protect her from the corrupting influence of the black man and the “tragedy” of mulatto children—but she was directly harmed nonetheless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s the law. Don’t ask me why. I can’t tell you.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

These brats talk better than most of the unwashed hordes that appear before your bench, and the law insists on calling that lot human, doesn’t it?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“What is the first law of the foot?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no intention of seeing laws proliferate and multiply. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Kepler’s third or harmonic law, a precise connection between the size of a plan- et’s orbit and the period for it to go once around the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new law requires the public school system to abandon any programs that involve bilingual students. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In Puritan England, about 300 years ago, it was against the law to wear the color red. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nowjust a minute ago I understood you to say that you selected somebody that knew the law better. Now who was that person?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Richardson, newly graduated from law school, was busy building his practice, working long hours in an attempt to make partner. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

However, the laws of thermodynamics state that it is impossible to create such a machine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Southern governors and law enforcement officials often characterized these tactics as criminal and argued that the rise of the Civil Rights Movement was indicative of a breakdown of law and order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the 1890s, Populists buckled under the political pressure created by the Redeemers, who had successfully appealed to poor and working-class whites by proposing overtly racist and increasingly absurd Jim Crow laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In both judicial and forensic rhetoric, it can be necessary to establish not only whether x did y or x should do y, but whether or not that falls within the law. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was like martial law had been declared: The smaller kids couldn’t go anywhere without an escort, the older ones traveled in pairs, and Miss Peregrine had to know where everyone was at all times. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“The first law I mentioned, ‘Similarity enhances sympathy,’ simply means that the more things resemble each other, the stronger the sympathetic link between them will be.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

More in his hand—movements, riddles, proposals for laws. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Why would being a Muslim prevent me from doing the work at a law firm? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“This box has specific instructions to contact a law firm in Denver if anyone ever arrives with the key.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Is there a law Against a boy With glasses, Sticky face, No hair, And a tongue Between his teeth On a Saturday morning? Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with the rituals, there were also tribal laws governing manners. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, if one is not permitted to grow such a crop on private premises by law, such pharmaceutical farming initiatives are forbidden. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Studies have shown that most of the new inmates swelling the system are nonviolent drug offenders subject to mandatory sentencing laws. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as “mischief” and “insulting gestures” as crimes were enforced vigorously against blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So doth even the most absurd of habits, after a time, inscribe itself as law, and come to resonate as ineluctable truth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t make the laws, sir. Your outrage notwithstanding, you still need to prove the par­ents are deceased. The boy has to be declared a legal orphan.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Calculus, on the other hand, gave scientists a way to express the laws that govern the motion of the celestial bodies—and laws that would eventually tell scientists how those moons and stars had formed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He wore civilian clothes, replaced the soldiers with unarmed policemen, enforced the amnesty laws, and helped a few families of Liberals who had been killed in the war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But in the early eighties, when someone gave Henrietta’s medical records to Gold, there was no such law. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was Murphy Homes law and Wes took it to heart. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

During the Jim Crow era, African Americans were denied the right to vote through poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and felon disenfranchisement laws, even though the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The modern idea of laws of nature is a by-product of Descartes’ philosophy, for Descartes was the first person to treat the laws of nature as being what knowledge of nature was all about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Who knew the law better? A lot of people know the law better. Now, are you trying to say that Dr. King was the leader of the whole thing?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

That was when he and Nan still laughed together, when Pop’s advice was law, when he had no secrets from me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Anya quoted a sentiment she’d heard a lot in the village when people decided to break the law: ‘“God is far up high, and the tsar is far away’?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Richard Parker’s nocturnal practice of sleeping in the lifeboat was never a law in my mind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler’s first two laws may seem a little remote and abstract: planets move in ellipses, and sweep out equal areas in equal times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did that to save time. Am I going to have to go to law to compel you to do your sworn duty?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would call pretty women who worked in the factory to his room, and on the pretext of lecturing them on labor rights and trade union law, flirt with them outrageously. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"By the laws of the green lands, you might be. But we make our own laws here, or have you forgotten?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He cares for the babies at times, but has laid down the law at diapers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The first indication that the laws of physics might really allow people to travel in time came in 1949 when Kurt Godel discovered a new space-time allowed by general relativity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that was basically a law of the universe. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I been in trouble with the law before, and I can take it, but like I said, he knows Pa and what’s been goin’ on at home. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The first is the law of large numbers, one of the most significant though often misunderstood theorems in probability theory, and one which people sometimes invoke to justify all sorts of bizarre conclusions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In minutes, he will jump off to again try to outrun law enforcement officers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Deciphering the laws of heredity, he wrote, would transform “man’s outlook on the world, and his power over nature” more “than any other advance in natural knowledge that can be foreseen.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In those days before the Thunderhead, human arrogance, self-interest, and endless infighting determined the rule of law. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He was a Buddhist and believed in the laws of karma, so it made sense to him that he might pay for his war murders: everything comes back to you, nothing is accidental. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Men who went from town to town, bringing the rule of law to small Aturan towns.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His view of the law was broad rather than narrow, for he believed that it was a tool that could be used to change society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I enrolled in every course I could squeeze into my schedule, from German idealism to the history of secularism to ethics and law. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In doing so, she was forced to turn right at every turn, and the simple laws of physics and geometry ensured that eventually she found the exit. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They run through the streets, not caring about traffic, as if they’re invincible against speeding cars and completely untouchable by the law. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There are laws now that make segregation illegal. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Yet the law had not been changed, and White suspected that this setback had prompted Hale to turn to the insurance murder plot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

According to the teachings of Mr. Elijah Muhammad, Mr. Yacub, except in his mind, never saw the bleached-out devil race that his procedures and laws and rules created. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His three laws were intended to be the only laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They christened him Aureliano and with his mother's last name, since the law did not permit a person to bear his father's name until he had recognized him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

This law doesn’t apply so strictly to the service jobs I’ve held so far. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, the prefect was above the law because he was the law, and one prefect was not supposed to report another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As noted earlier, studies suggest that most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He kneels in the center of a thick mass of people, everyone touching everyone because one of the laws of nature is that theater people love to be touchy. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It was a problem of the law, and the law would work it out—isn’t that what it was for, for God’s sake? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m Mr. Lawrence. Recess is now against the law!” I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Myriad laws, rules, and regulations operate to discriminate against people with criminal records and effectively prevent their reintegration into the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Journalism gave me another tool of exploration, another way of unveiling the laws that bound my body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The trouble with this was that the laws of mechanics and electricity, before quantum mechanics, predicted that the electrons would lose energy and so spiral inward until they collided with the nucleus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others, though, argued that it was quite clear that general laws of the sort described by Descartes could never produce the perfect design that one could find in the paw of a dog. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Harry Jamieson has broken two laws—the law against being mean and the law against swiping. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Cole thought about his own troubles with the law and about all his troubles at school. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His story was a counternarrative to the rhetoric of fairness and reliability offered by politicians and law enforcement officials who wanted more and faster executions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes in laws and policies, not changes in crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Board, five Southern legislatures passed nearly fifty new Jim Crow laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Isn’t there some law that protects the privacy of people in public places? Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as we obeyed the enforced Jim Crow laws and kept our mouths shut, things were bearable. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ritual had a tang of divine law and was strictly adhered to by the boys of Hobie’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The New Orleans Police Department had put out a nationwide request for law enforcement help, so Gonzales agreed to go, along with about thirty other officers from Albuquerque. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Meggers’s “law of environmental limitation of culture,” her critics in essence say, is nothing but a green variant of Holmberg’s Mistake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Boy, are you reading for law?” my aunt would demand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, USA Fencing officials and my management team took the matter seriously right away and took it to the highest levels of law enforcement. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In Islamic law, it means to set out for Ka’ba, the Sacred House, and to fulfill the pilgrimage rites. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One need not be formally convicted in a court of law to be subject to this shame and stigma. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Gerry is the perfect example of “quitters never win” because he quit law school. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

For it purported to create a consolidated federal government with powers sufficient to coerce obedience to national laws—in effect, to discipline a truly continental union—while remaining true to the republican principles of 1776. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

At precisely noon on March 25, King George III signed the law. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You know the law of sanctuary?” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed in Southern legislatures. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to object, because it is a traveler’s first law never to get separated from his passport, but I didn’t. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was anger and argument and a lot of talk about the law, but in the end, they couldn’t banish Ares. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He expressed himself in the dietary laws, which favored native African foods—the yam, the cassava—and prohibited the consumption of swine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It remains the law in Alabama, where judges almost exclusively use this power to turn life sentences into death sentences, although they're also authorized to reduce death verdicts to life if they so choose. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

However, this “law” can hardly have dictated his choice of green to stand for the girl’s psyche. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some considered the federal amendment a challenge to states’ rights to make their own choices and laws, and others worried that expanding African American suffrage to include women could threaten white political control. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Like Kelvin’s discovery of absolute zero, the laws of thermodynamics erected impenetrable barriers that no scientists can ever cross, no matter how hard they try. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Since Mr. Johnson signed that law, it was like somebody had ripped the side seams out of American life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delta Mermaid replied that women simply had laws protecting them in America and the divorce rates would be just as high if those laws were in Nigeria. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mandatory sentencing laws are frequently justified as necessary to keep “violent criminals” off the streets, yet those penalties are imposed most often against people who are guilty of nonviolent crimes and drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the sideshow, a scruffy carnival barker was shouting through a megaphone, promising glimpses of “the most shocking errors of nature allowed on view by law” for a trivial fee. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The new laws and tactics of the government had made the old forms of mass protest — public meetings, press statements, stay-aways — extremely dangerous and self-destructive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, at the same time that civil rights were being identified as a threat to law and order, the FBI was reporting fairly dramatic increases in the national crime rate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The authority of the law loomed big in his mind; he remembered, “You and your family will be in serious trouble.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he was now permitted to practice law in Ohio, he didn't have the chance. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Harry was still an underage wizard, and he was forbidden by wizard law to do magic outside school. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Managing the multitudes in such a limited space would have been difficult under the best of circumstances, but the convoluted Jim Crow transportation laws turned the commute into a gauntlet for all riders. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The laws of science will hold at them, just as they do at the North and South Poles on the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in a country where men and women had equal constitutional rights by law, letting girls into after-school flying clubs fulfilled Komsomol requirements, so they couldn’t be turned away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I knew I would not be practicing law again very soon, but I did not want to consider the alternative. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I wanted the laws category too and, hey, guess what? It’s still available. What do you say—you do seerah and I do laws?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

‘For that reason I would have slain him before, forgetting the law of the hall. But there are other reasons.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the public's disdain for the spoils system, he called for a law regulating civil service jobs within the government. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It didn’t look like my idea of a law office. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody understood that it was a word imported from the law courts, and with it came an established set of standards for judging the reliability of testimony. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Stop in the name of the law!” he bellowed. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would, of course, still have had the freedom to choose the laws that the universe obeyed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew with certainty what law they were breaking, but it seemed unlawful somehow. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I wish we knew something more about inheritance law,” Klaus said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

It would be his bounden duty to turn Hannah over to the law. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The new law ended any agreement between Hitler and the Catholic Church. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

God would choose how the universe began and what laws it obeyed, but he would not intervene in the universe once it had started. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I attributed it more to the laws of probability than from any human kindness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Learning is just the process of uncovering that previously imprinted code of laws about the workings of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

These quantum theories are deterministic in the sense that they give laws for the evolution of the wave with time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But for now, I am queen. My word is law.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

How can he be expected to obey a law that feels so wrong? The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s against nature,” he explained, “and besides, it’s against the law.’ One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A few years ago, however, the University of Michigan decided to look closely at how the law school’s minority students had fared after they graduated. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

If the British had considered the Indigenous peoples to be rightful owners of the land, British laws against squatting might have worked in their favor. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The law had caught up with a station master in southern Virginia, he said, who gave up the name of Martin’s father. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Kids are not going to spontaneously ask for a parent,” explains Barry Feld, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and one of the nation’s leading experts on juvenile justice. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Three strikes” laws have also played a considerable role. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The track, with its violent nature, includes attacks against law enforcement and is said to be a hit among young listeners.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They post a stake with a sign over all the nests they find—the ones they move and the ones they do not—saying that it is against the law to disturb the nest. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve declared martial law all over the city,” he said, wide-eyed with fear. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scott didn’t much like his job’s chief responsibility: hang out at bars and, as Singleton put it, “enforce Utah’s crazy alcohol laws.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

From these laws, Newton wrote with undisguised pride in the Principia, “I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a natural law of athletics that there must be whispering before a game and nothing else. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack was relieved to be done with law school, eager to get out of the abstract realm of academia and into work that felt more engaging and real. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The process that Josquin had prophetically anticipated, namely the change of musical texture to make the meaning of the text clear and transparent, had by mid-century turned - in effect - into state law throughout Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If this were a real law, most of the world’s ranchers and dairy farmers would be outlaws, because they let their cows stay in the same pasture without stop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Miss Deveraux, you are a kind girl, but law and order must be upheld.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As historian Michael Lerner has observed, “The law that was meant to stop Americans from drinking was instead turning many of them into experts on how to make it.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Alabama and common law pleading, for instance, was a subject so ethereal in nature that Henry passed it only by memorizing the book. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The English had the common law, which relied on the jury system. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had begun correspondence studies for my LL.B., a bachelor of laws degree allowing one to practice as an advocate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marveling at Ann’s vast knowledge of federal housing laws, a HUD consultant admitted that “she knows more than most bureaucrats in Washington.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

To head the Communist-seeking group, he selected a young lawyer fresh out of law school named J. Edgar Hoover. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, if you had some interest in this world besides law, taxes, and your grandchildren, you could almost be a fascinating person. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in addition to these subtle gestures, she laid down the law. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was organized if this guy sets up fights. There are laws against that. It’s cruel.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was against the law, of course, so he had concealed the truck behind some bushes, off the trail, under a big beech tree. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

There is a point at which gas, in theory, takes up no space at all; Charles’ law says that a balloon of gas must shrink to zero space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The hearing reached absurd, numbing proportions as lawyers tried to ascertain Edwards’s algebra grade in a court of law. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he is capable, the republic must restrain him with laws so that he does not exceed his authority. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Then they started running all that on TV about the Population Police, how the Population Police had ways of finding out everything, how they'd do anything to enforce the law.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Zero wavelength equals infinite energy; zero and infinity conspired to break a nice, neat system of laws. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid this dreadful nonsense is the law,” Justice Strauss said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

One center, one seeing, one law, one light. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Much of the southern highlands were “debatable lands” in the border sense of a contested territory without established government or the rule of law. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Over the next three years, the Nazis passed a series of laws called the Nuremberg Race Laws. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred marchers headed downtown, through streets lined by glowering law enforcement officers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a law of the Nazi regime. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She talked about finishing college and going to law school, but distractions kept cropping up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, was Attorney Gray here one of those whom you felt knew the laws?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

This does not mean that Homo sapiens and human culture became exempt from biological laws. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke as though he wanted to leave nobody in any doubt that all his ancestors had abided strictly by the law. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even as genetics was being used to justify sweeping changes in law and society, the gene itself had remained a doggedly abstract entity, a ghost lurking in the biological machine. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Segregation was also enforced by law, and a breach could result in fines or time spent in jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Enforcement remained a serious problem even where there were laws, notes Harsha and other public safety advocates. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Andre flaunted this unwritten law whenever I was with him, but on this occasion our presence in a parking lot teeming with white faces made me insist on sitting in the back. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Realizing that I barely had enough money to pay for school supplies, let alone legal expenses, John suggested soliciting a big law firm because sometimes they do work pro bono. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

State legislatures were eager to jump on the “get tough” bandwagon, passing harsh drug laws, as well as “three strikes” laws mandating a life sentence for those convicted of any third offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She showed me how, in the country’s entire social, political and economic structure, the criminal, the law, and the politicians were actually inseparable partners. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The senator’s aide who planned the bombing with Diana had told the authorities that it had been her idea to demonstrate how vital the Safety Through Education law was. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One began to get an inkling of what law was about only when the time came to practice it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“My word will be absolute law, beyond appeal. If you don’t like a particular decision I make, I’d be happy to discuss it with you afterward, but not while we’re on the hill.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The once marginal, second-tier law firms started by the people who couldn’t get jobs at the downtown firms ten and fifteen years earlier. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

God tells the Pope what He wants done and the Pope lays down the law. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was an extraordinary claim that promised to rewrite fundamental laws of physics, backed up by extensive results from the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Pater Aquillus is a jurist, and his library is filled with everything from obscure law books to ancient Scholar tomes on mathematics. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But again, similar to Prohibition, gun control laws can only be as effective as the organizations that enforce them—another lesson to be learned from the past. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Reich has also passed a new law, the Extraordinary Radio Law, intended to protect the Fatherland from lies and other enemy propaganda. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, is against law. Government tell you what to do with your crop. But I will not listen! We will make more money this way! Sell on black market instead of to government.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The land of his birth was at war with America; yet after thirty- five years here he was still prevented by law from becoming an American citizen. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

These laws resulted in inferior accommodations for blacks and served only to fuel the existing fear and hatred between blacks and whites. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d tried, without success, to get a law passed to allow immigrant workers to get permits to work in the state. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We have the right to execute you, under the laws of Dauntless.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But that’s so elementary. Newton’s third law. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If someone bought her from her New York owners and brought her South before the Northern laws could free her, she might spend the rest of her life picking cotton. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There had never been a chance before, since no one except Claudette Colvin had ever pleaded not guilty to breaking the segregation laws in a bus arrest. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In 1870, most people believed that the word “male” in the Fourteenth Amendment explicitly excluded women from voting, but others read the law differently. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Or it may have been a fear of the whole position, of its instability and the nemesis inherent in it Women know, far better than men, that God’s laws are not mocked. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you flunk out of law school, you have to go to work at your father’s insurance company. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Now there were laws on the books, not debates about abolition; there were contracts signed by both parties, not just the rule of guns and torture. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The actual operation of drug forfeiture laws seriously undermines the usual rhetoric offered in support of the War on Drugs, namely that it is the big “kingpins” that are the target of the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At its peak, some 20,000 to 30,000 people lived in Palmares, following laws and customs in which beliefs brought over directly from Africa mixed with Native American and European practices. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Some historians of science want to argue that you cannot have laws of nature without voluntarism, and you cannot have voluntarism without an omnipotent creator God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were the familiar redline laws that made it impossible for blacks to obtain mortgages or home improvement loans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for nine years, South Carolina has operated as if this law did not exist. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This “nation of laws” is also often called a “nation of immigrants.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But Samuel had put up a laughing wall against natural laws, and Una’s death breached his battlements. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, we Dinka say that he held the laws in his heart. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officials periodically descended on the markets and arrested traders under vague laws that criminalize buying and selling. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She was convicted of violating the Jim Crow law and fined five dollars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

What I had not yet learned was the depth of hatred that mandated those segregation laws. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No one stirred or spoke until Ekheneos broke the spell—an old man, eldest of the Phaiakians, an oracle, versed in the laws and manners of old time. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The laws of Nature are the same everywhere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though they were willing to try anything, I'd personally reached peak frustration levels at our country's complex and seemingly arbitrary immigration laws. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I am not, as it happens, a stranger to law enforcement. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This second witness gave law enforcement officials what they needed to charge Walter McMillian with capital murder in the shooting death of Ronda Morrison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By its own law of noninterference in scythe affairs, it could do nothing to stop the purge. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Some would argue for the third possibility on the grounds that if there were a complete set of laws, that would infringe God’s freedom to change his mind and intervene in the world. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that Frankie must have told Mr. Whitby that he was from Russia, although by imperial law he was considered neither a Russian citizen nor an ethnic Pole or Lithuanian. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Growing up in this environment, the young Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we headed out of London by the dismal Westway, he gave me his condensed version: no property law, therefore no capital, therefore no wealth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant It has no rules. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holder released nine states, mostly in the South, from the requirement that they must seek advance federal approval before making any change in their election laws. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why should I want to do anything? I ain’t got a chance. I don’t know nothing. I’m just black and they make the laws.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The prisoner has been tried according to the established forms of law.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“That’s what the law says. White law. There are other ones.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The object of this law is to caution the Court to seek to find out why a man killed and to allow that why to be the measure of the mitigation of the punishment. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Matters of fact’, as opposed to matters of law and of faith, becomes an intellectual slogan and a powerful political weapon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"As you know, all eligible young people are required by law to join the Hitler Youth," Herr Asmus says crisply. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Just like you or me, it is bound by the laws of the countries in which it operates. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went to law school, and no less than nine of their grandchildren ended up as doctors and lawyers as well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When you study the science of philology, you learn the laws governing how a consonant can lose its shape, but it keeps its identity from language to language.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a duty you are bound to by law. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cops can draw, break the law, ’cause you fret. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Actually it only served to widen it, primarily because of the terms of the new law covering fugitive slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Then your dad and I will have to deal with the law." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who violate Japanese law, even unknowingly, may be arrested, imprisoned, and deported. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were laws and things to keep people from doing that. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She needed a new plan to get her sister and brother-in- law together. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, if we compare the grades that the minority and nonminority students get in law school, we see that the white students do better. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Even striving to obey the law fits the profile! The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although K.D. was counseling me to study law, I had my heart set on being an interpreter or a clerk in the Native Affairs Department. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the segregation laws didn’t matter too much in the daily lives of black citizens, but the bus was different. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

By 2000, the DEA had directly trained more than 25,000 officers in forty-eight states in Pipeline tactics and helped to develop training programs for countless municipal and state law enforcement agencies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Federal law provides that a child-support enforcement officer can garnish up to 65 percent of an individual’s wages for child support. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If she caught him, it would help her father make his case to Father Cham about the need for orbs and laws. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Easy, the governor. I saw him just last week on the news, talking about a new law for small business.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

If laws of nature are something less than mathematical truths and something more than perceived regularities, then it would seem clear that they exist only because God has chosen to make them apply. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Under the old law there was no penalty for killing a witch. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time of the 1880 convention, Arthur was practicing law. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

That’s not surprising: if one group has higher undergraduate grades and test scores than the other, it’s almost certainly going to have higher grades in law school as well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She might not be able to afford law school, she thought, but she could always make a living doing public relations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I can have you court-martialed for this, Corporal. She is a prisoner, and in this facility, I am the law.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I was interviewing for a paralegal position in the mergers and acquisitions department of a prestigious multi-national corporate law firm. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“This must be the influence of that ludicrous representative of the law. He seems to have turned you against your own child. By the way, he has left, hasn’t he?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Those are the places all over the country where folks sell and drink bootlegged alcohol and hope to not get caught by the law. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The United States and other Western nations demanded the abolishing of South Africa’s Draconian security laws, which allowed for detention without trial. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The laws of succession are clear in such a case. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One could appeal against the judge’s interpretation of the law and his guidance to the jury, but not against the jury’s determination of the fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At first, these regularities and laws were obvious only in astronomy and a few other situations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The threat of violence didn’t just come from law enforcement officers, marchers were told; waiting for them downtown were members of the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The same law of gravity applies everywhere in the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are laws against impersonating workers in any profession, but no law preventing anyone from impersonating a scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That the military was accountable, reasonable, and was kept in check by concentric circles of regulations, laws, common sense, common decency. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I thought again about the law that forbade women to make weapons. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The topic of the speech would be injustice in the laws facing women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Two years earlier, King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” published in newspapers around the world, had been greeted as an important defense of nonviolent resistance to unjust laws. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t call for any help because the people who are enforcing the law on this train are the ones I’m afraid of. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

This was to carry vengeance beyond the ordinance of the gods, beyond the law of right; it was to punish the dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew her parents wanted her to study law, but she wanted to pursue filmmaking and be a cinematographer. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“He’s one of the chief law officers of the Crown. He’s the Speaker of the House of Lords.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

According to Newton’s law, the extra stars would make no difference at all to the original ones on average, so the stars would fall in just as fast. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But nobody cared, so the law was never enforced. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The subjects would range from report writing to the use of force, from penal law to “standards of inmate behavior,” from tool and key control to drug awareness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Distant galaxies revolving about one another follow the same laws of gravitational physics as govern the motion of an apple falling to Earth, or Voyager on its way to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This uncomfortable fact creates strong incentives for minority officers to deny, to rationalize, or to be willingly blind to the role of law enforcement in creating a racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If the forfeiture had been successful, it would have netted the law enforcement agencies about $5 million in assets. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At that time, the law said that blacks could not sit in the same car as whites. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

While Mr. Sidelsky imparted his views of the law, he warned me against politics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even more troublesome, some Rangers had no patience for the niceties of the law. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You know the law. Strict to the letter. No books, no houses, nothing to be produced which in any way suggests ghosts, vampires, fairies, or any creature of the imagination.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine that we had met any one of these four fresh out of law school, sitting in the elegant waiting room at Mudge Rose next to a blue-eyed Nordic type from the “right” background. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Just what we need, skirts in the law!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe during those three years you make friends you’ll love and respect forever, people who seem genuinely called to the bloodless intricacies of the law, but you yourself are not called. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I just know that it rubbed me in a weird way, because ROTC, especially to people like my dad, was the first step to the military, and ultimately into law enforcement. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But these are the laws our planet obeys as we ourselves, glued by gravity to the surface of the Earth, hurtle through interplanetary space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Make no mistake—we scythes are above the law because we deserve to be. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

However, now that martial law has been declared and the national guard has been activated, Alyce has been called on to airlift drinking water to evacuation centers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon,” Frank said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It has produced laws of a cynicism scarcely believable in a civilized society. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Further south, towards the Mediterranean basin, you might have seen a seaman being punished for gambling, under a law of Richard Coeur de Lion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Join the Kings, break the law, end up behind bars. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

An elegant way to sidestep the law rather than breaking it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He might be running from the law, or maybe a charm had been placed on him, which would explain why every ordinary hex he tried to put on his wife failed to work. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Might there be a universe in which Descartes’ third law of nature actually holds? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Professors, relatives, random people I met, asked what was next for me, and when I mentioned I was bound for law school—Harvard Law School, as it turned out—the affirmation was overwhelming. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He'd grown up on a farm in Kentucky and ended up in Washington, D.C., after finishing law school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Todd was a joker, and he’d had a run-in or two with the law, so even in the back of a military van he seemed amused. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Kepler’s first law of planetary motion is simply this: A planet moves in an ellipse with the Sun at one focus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it was created in defiance of nature's musical laws, the new, interlocking, standardised system came with huge benefits, not least making all twelve key-families compatible. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Rhoda Fuller had been a schoolteacher until the state started making laws to free up jobs for unemployed men. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was sort of like Kepler’s third law. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His mouth talks, but his eyes never stop hunting, looking for some hidden law of physics that could explain the missing head and hands that ought to be sticking out of my black turtleneck shirt. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know it is against the law to deface a passport?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Treaty of Treason gave us the new laws to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They ruled that moral laws came before duty to any nation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Throckmorton is the headmaster. That means he is the head. There is no higher authority. His word is law.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I knew money would be tight at our house as long as Dad was in jail—my mother only works part-time at the law firm, so the pay isn’t so hot. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

On 29 January 2016 the South Korean government passes a law giving incentives to citizens who use Mind’s Eye for a minimum of sixteen hours daily. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Though legally bound by her husband’s wishes under German law, Maria did not want to return to him or to Nuremberg. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It is hardly surprising that there is a book on the Scientific Revolution entitled Nature and Nature’s Laws, since the discovery of laws of nature is one of the Scientific Revolution’s most remarkable achievements. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Mama! We learned this in elementary school. The president signs bills into laws! The president!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He did not go to school to learn the law. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority, arguing that the law’s original requirements were no longer justified. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed a law called Extraordinary Radio Measures, making it illegal to listen to foreign radio stations. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After high school, Gray worked his way rapidly through Alabama State College and then went off to law school in Ohio. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

After the Voting Rights Act passed, court clerks and judges still kept the jury rolls mostly white through various tactics designed to undermine the law. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There is no law that requires the universe to fill itself with small particles of matter or to produce light and gravity and the other physical properties on which our existence hinges. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Without being held, she had no standing for an appeal, because federal law did not allow appeals of criminal convictions. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The guy who normally lived there was a University of Chicago law student and he’d furnished it like any good student would, with mismatched garage-sale finds. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You say you like what he has done. But he has broken the law.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Martial law has been declared, and everyone is going to get one less butter coupon. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Our liturgy', endless; my own body immune to the laws of time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We must, by law, keep a record of the innocents we kill. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Since then, the law has been expanded to cover most federal government positions. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In 2006, Alabama passed a law that made it a felony to expose a child to a “dangerous environment” in which the child could encounter drugs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That was the period when divine good humor and the hidden forces of human nature acted with impunity to provoke a state of emergency and upheaval in the laws of physics and logic. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for Einstein, the laws of quantum mechanics work incredibly well, and you can’t successfully explain quantum effects with traditional classical physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"A hanging? Who—" "It's against the law for a Negro to kiss a white woman." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She took a beat to compose herself, then summoned me over to confide that she was leaving in a week to work at a “real law office.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She wanted to hire women, but by law she had to choose from lists of people who had taken civil service exams in math or science. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He chose to stay and act, even though he knew it would mean breaking the law. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Both the Army and the Navy were forbidden to engage in law enforcement. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Death-Cast did not call Ariel Andrade because he isn’t dying today, but since he’s an officer of the law, getting the call is his greatest fear every night when the clock strikes midnight. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every day, it seems, the Nazis pass more laws against the Jews. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He outlined a plan under which selected volunteers from all groups would deliberately invite imprisonment by defying certain laws. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are the primary objectives of Islamic laws? The primary objectives of Islamic laws? Islamic laws? Objectives?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In March, the German parliament endorsed the Enabling Act, granting Hitler unprecedented power to enact laws without parliamentary involvement. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They came from just about every tribe in South Africa, all of them on the run from the law because something was wrong with their passbooks or permits. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had to stand here until that picture came back, that motive, that driving desire to escape the law. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

This phenomenon leads to nonsense when people attribute the regression to the mean to some particular scientific law, rather than to the natural behavior of any random quantity. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he had been transferred over to the law buildings, for his clerkship and studies. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And I can never prove it, not in a court of law, not even in the public eye. But I know in my heart why that man fired his gun that day.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the ancient lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Figuring out Alabama civil and criminal law while managing death penalty cases in several other states kept me very busy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Our law professor, Mr. Hahlo, was a strict, cerebral sort, who did not tolerate much independence on the part of his students. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in Alabama, Kennedy noted, “Governor Wallace has refused to respect either the law or the authority of local officials.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had read extensively into law and politics and understood that political machines operated on a first principle of power: If you worked to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She is required by law to wear plastic gloves—I guess in case I have some kind of infection or disease. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Second, Smeaton’s work depended on the systematic application of Torricelli’s law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was reason to worry, too, for just a few years ago, the demons had broken their own laws and turned away over twenty thousand of their former guests who had expected to be readmitted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

More often, the theme was politics and the awkward cold war thought up by the American paranoids, who should be back in the law offices of middlewestern towns. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

New Jersey motorists, learning about the invasion on their car radios, headed west, “disregarding speed laws and curves in their race to escape the death rays.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy gave the astrologers the information they needed, and Newton explained Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I filled it full of hay so she wouldn’t have to climb the ladder to the loft Papa laid down the law to my sisters about being good and helping Mama while we were gone. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Northern slavery had been abolished, every black person was still presumed a slave—by law—and could not testify or introduce evidence in court. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was then working for a new law firm and they did not give me permission to take two days off to attend the conference in Bloemfontein. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have to say anything—he was, after all, a scythe, above the law in every way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Where blacks had been able to serve on juries and share public accommodations with whites, Jim Crow laws were passed denying them these rights. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How can I be surprised just because the administration breaks the law?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I pointed out to him that none of this had anything to do with my case, but all he said was that it was obvious I had never had any dealings with the law. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“The penalty for violating that law is either ten years in prison or one Ben Starling tongue bath,” Radar said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Acting under the Michigan pest control law which allows the state to spray indiscriminately without notifying or gaining permission of individual landowners, the low-lying planes began to fly over the Detroit area. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I explained how as a lawyer I was often forced to choose between compliance with the law and accommodating my conscience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The true crime section is to the right. The criminal law section is behind it.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Certainly they have laws. They meet in the autumn, in a field, to talk them over.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

To prepare for this eventuality, he ruled the house strictly according to tribal law, tolerating no deviance, particularly from his children. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mix of shame for having gone back to the law of the streets mixed with rage—“I could have you arrested!” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Now to explore another pair of common crime-drop explanations: Tougher gun laws Changes in crack and other drug markets First, the guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Even so, the law firm was far more liberal than most. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like there was a law or something against doing anything but buying. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

To disregard these laws often meant severe punishment. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was petty stuff in a transaction that was already law enforcement at its most utterly trivia! level. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The governor got the legislature to pass laws closing the schools. But a new school board,” Mother said, “might make a difference. They’re the ones who set the start dates for the schools and...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyone suffering from a hereditary disease can be sterilized by a surgical operation,” the law mandated. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

After some days the farmer’s wife came to the barn and said, “You must not run away. There is a new law. All children must work on the farms.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

By comparing their numbers each year, the counters could tell whether or not their efforts to ban pesticides and pass laws protecting the birds were working. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing she had been told—about the Governor, or the law, or even herself—was true. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There has to be something serious, something provable, something that violates school policies, or something that violates the law. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did these statements make Myers's recantation more credible but they had also been documented in medical records that had never been turned over to Walter's trial lawyers, as the law required. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Do you have information for me? Perhaps you know somebody who is breaking the law? A neighbor or relative or teacher, perhaps? Something you've overheard? Some suspicious activity?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would reply that for as long as meaningful contact between the races was forbidden by law, the stereotypes each race had of the other would persist. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t make him yours. Not in the eyes of the law, it doesn’t.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an even more obvious metaphor for Christians, as it was easy to think of God as a legislator imposing laws on nature and to personify nature as obeying him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Today, July second, 1964,” he said, “the president of the United States signed the Civil Rights Act into law in the East Room of the White House....” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another phenomenon of Prohibition was the “booze cruise,” which would take passengers just beyond territorial waters, where they were out of reach of the law. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Keeping patient information confidential was emerging as a standard practice, but it wasn’t law, so releasing it wasn’t out of the question. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

From that moment on, they adhered to the unwritten law of Christmas past. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine if there was a law that the walls of America’s slaughter houses had to be made of glass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Then he’s breaking the law by having you here. Do you have any money?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t American laws apply in the Delta? What R.C. and those two men did was wrong, Grampa. It makes me sick just to think about it.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The new law added more fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy to roughly forty-three million meals served daily. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t think of any other way to demonstrate all three laws with the materials on hand.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Oklahoma attorney general soon charged Sheriff Freas with willfully “failing to enforce the law” by permitting bootlegging and gambling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was Antigone who symbolized our struggle; she was, in her own way, a freedom fighter, for she defied the law on the grounds that it was unjust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the South the races were strictly segregated by law, not just on railroads but on streetcars and buses, in schools, restaurants, hotels, theaters, and parks, and even in cemeteries and at drinking fountains. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

What a shock, then, when Minerva got handed the law degree but not the license to practice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something visceral and less tangential than, say, statistics, laws, police enforcement, or television commercials: The issue had to be made personal. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After passing the bar exam, he was all set to take over a country law practice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is against the laws of the University for a student who is not a member of the Arcanum to use sympathy without permission from a master.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All the laws and beliefs of Earth were burnt into small hot ashes which soon would be carried off in a wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by now, Chapman and all of the law enforcement officers had grown tired of us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Here we all thought El Jefe had relented against our family and let Minerva enroll in law school. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Counterpoint, to Bach, was the ultimate set of laws in music; obeying these laws was for him something beautiful, uplifting and reassuring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Acted in veritable defiance of law and common sense. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I am the law,” the Director rages, then motions to his private security detail. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Being against the law, at least against its letter, she must be twice as law abiding as anyone else. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got his law degree and set up a practice on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

You might make an application to a South African library for a book on contract law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ANC’s leaders, we said, had to be willing to violate the law and if necessary go to prison for their beliefs as Gandhi had. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planned to complete work for an A.B. degree and then enter law school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm spoke like a man who was free, like a black man above the laws that proscribed our imagination. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He ruled out law, because he didn’t like lawyers, and he ruled out medicine, because he couldn’t take the sight of blood. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell what the bystanders think: he’s a common criminal; he’s broken the law, likely more than one. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

After graduating from law school, I went back to the Deep South to represent the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor insisted that Charlie be tried as an adult, and he announced that he intended to seek the maximum punishment permitted by law. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I could stand up and demand fair and just treatment by law enforcement and our elected officials. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z