breach of law
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbreachandlaw
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breach
noun[C]
uk/briːtʃ/us/briːtʃ/
an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, ...
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law
noun
uk/lɔː/us/lɑː/
a rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order the way in which a ...
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(Definition ofbreachandlawfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is perfectly clear that a very seriousbreachoflawand order was committed.
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I firmly believe that the people to determine whether a company or individual is inbreachoflaware the courts, not local authorities.
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We are not talking about accidental obstruction orbreachoflawbecause people do not realise what they are doing.
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There is nobreachoflawin refusing to register or refusing to attend a civil hearing if one is prepared to accept the consequences.
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Clearly there has been abreachoflaw.
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We face two grave problems—inflation, of which the papers warned us again today, and thebreachoflawand order.
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He said it was abreachoflaw.
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They are very concerned about thebreachoflaw.
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The thirdbreachoflawis the attempt to subvert and disaffect individual police officers.
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It was an income derived by the cemetery company inbreachoflaw, about which action might have been taken.
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No one can complain that that was violent or abreachoflawand order.
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They are not in the in-between position of simply being a guide so that a breach is not abreachoflaw.
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One of the situations most likely to result in abreachoflawand order is the gathering of a number of people, commonly called in law "an assembly".
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The word "flagrant" in this case embodies not only the idea of a gravebreachoflaw, but it also involves the elements of magnitude, danger and urgency.
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It was not abreachoflaw.
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However, actual laws and the maximum ages that constitutebreachoflawvary by state.
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They were there for some time, and obvious and blatant breaches of law took place.
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Every now and again you are going to have breaches of law and order.
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He has told us that trade union activity gives rise to breaches of law.
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