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- ordained
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- precedented
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- protected
- right
- rightful
- sanctioned
- sound
- straight
- sure-enough
- warranted
- within the law
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How to use legal in a sentence
She writes with the ease of a novelist rather than the characteristic precision of a legal scholar.
A Georgetown professor trades her classroom for a police beat | Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostAnother proposal would prohibit cars from blocking the box at intersections, which is legal in some parts of the state.
Traffic counts fell during the coronavirus pandemic, but road fatalities still increased | Luz Lazo | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostIn general, ESG stands for “environment-social-governance” and comprises a set of principles that touches on issues from diversity and board structures to labor relations, supply chain, data ethics, environmental impact and legal requirements.
European VC funds are building community around ESG initiatives | Richard Dal Porto | February 11, 2021 | TechCrunch
Companies don’t share that info, in part because of the concern about legal consequences like the ones Trek is facing now.
Jeff Kosseff, a former reporter turned lawyer and legal scholar, has emerged as one of the leading experts on the 1996 law and is author of the aptly titled book “The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet.”
Twenty-Six Words Created the Internet. What Will It Take to Save It? | Stephen Engelberg | February 9, 2021 | ProPublicaThe most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.
Weeks retained an unparalleled legal team, which included bitter political rivals Hamilton and Burr.
New York’s Most Tragic Ghost Loves Minimalist Swedish Fashion | Nina Strochlic | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat if there were a legal dispute between the foreign investor and his or her Egyptian partners or collaborators?
However, legal issues are only one of the things standing between an ex-prisoner and a job.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside | Justin Rohrlich | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Supreme Court eventually stepped in and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education.
The ‘No Child’ Rewrite Threatens Your Kids’ Future | Jonah Edelman | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was guilty of the weakness of taking refuge in what is called, I believe, in legal phrase, a side-issue.
Confidence | Henry JamesThe legal framework of the State and of obedience to the law in which industrial society is set threatens to break asunder.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe seizure was made in legal form; the banker, who lost nothing, was bound to comply with it.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonThis little book contains many of the legal principles that are in most frequent use, as readers will learn who carefully read it.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesThe law only gave you the right to proceed against him to recover money damages for the legal injury.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney Bolles
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