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51 Sentences With "laying down the law"

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Though he's not laying down the law in terms of boundaries.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is laying down the law — literally.
Mr. Millau took great pleasure in stirring up trouble and laying down the law.
Gabrielle Union is laying down the law in her household when it comes to social media.
Beyond securing deals, Qualcomm is also laying down the law with those in China who won't comply.
You'll be laying down the law, and again, you will especially see this play out in your public persona.
So coming up next, President Trump laying down the law while heading to the black-tie dinner at Churchill&aposs home.
Most of the tweets included a photo of other celebs sipping tea, or a GIF of Gomez laying down the law.
It was someone laying down the law — without worrying that a man would label her a virago or harridan or termagant.
Or rather, he is ready to start laying down the law about the boys that Ella will chose to get close to.
Kim Kardashian is laying down the law on her famous siblings now that she has begun her studies according to older sister, Kourtney Kardashian.
"The Wire" was different from other cop programmes because it spent as much time with the law-breakers as with those laying down the law.
It was a clarifying week in US-China relations: Beijing, increasingly confident and powerful, is laying down the law for US corporations playing in its growing market.
The combination of that with laying down the law is problematic, critics say, as it could result in cases of mistaken identity and people being wrongly arrested.
Alicia Keys has no qualms about laying down the law when it comes to her children's movie-watching habits — especially the classics most people don't think twice about.
Donnell Rawlings is laying down the law on who gets to drop "my n****" -- on the President or anyone else -- and says Larry Wilmore is in clear violation.
Ariana Grande is laying down the law on concert photographers for a perfectly good reason -- she's been taken advantage of by greedy photogs in the past ... and she's over it.
I protested that I wanted to finish the film first, but he insisted I go with him, laying down the law as though I too was one of his children.
In a confessional, Kim explains that she's laying down the law since she and Kourtney got into "the most epic fight" last year after her sister "fully copied" her light display.
But if Evans comes timid it is not hard to see Teixeira—who is never worried about getting hit—just walking straight in on him and laying down the law with his hands.
C-SPAN digital and social media specialist Jeremy Art captured an amazing and telling video of the Speaker of the House laying down the law at the swearing in of the 115th Congress.
Collette is an enjoyable screen presence as she swans around laying down the law with her old museum workers and her new clients, wielding the promise of multimillion-dollar art purchases like a spiked club.
While some might consider the peeling of the sticky, succulent fruit a sexual act, the ShowerOrange group comes from a place of purity, laying down the law of what's allowed in the citrus-filled photos.
" In that book, James distinguishes between various religious experiences and "religion's wicked practical partner, the spirit of corporate dominion, and religion's wicked intellectual partner, the spirit of dogmatic dominion, the passion for laying down the law.
And though she doesn't often speak publicly, you get the sense that Rihanna knows exactly what she's going to do and when she's going to do it, and is pretty savage when it comes laying down the law.
"Formation" begins not with a siren but with a twang—and with great authority: onstage, Beyoncé wasn't being policed; she was laying down the law as her dancers, straight-backed and stern-faced, performed in a line alongside her.
Ever since he held a beauty pageant in Russia, Trump has sought to cultivate a bromance with the head man in Moscow, musing about whether he would become his "new best friend" and periodically cozying up when he should have been laying down the law.
With overbroad scheduling that slows down researchers, "you don't know what you're preventing yourself from finding, because you're somewhat arbitrarily laying down the law and saying all this stuff that is in one way or another chemically similar, we're just going to ban it outright," Laredo said.
Time and again Monday, reporters were herded into the Oval Office and the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing to see Trump in action, signing executive orders or laying down the law to union leaders or business leaders from blue chip companies like Dell, Ford, Johnson & Johnson and Lockheed Martin.
The objurgation does not sound like an English papa laying down the law to his errant offspring.
Landseer's painting Laying Down The Law (1840) satirises the legal profession through anthropomorphism. It shows a group of dogs, with a poodle symbolising the Lord Chancellor.Manson (1902), p. 101. The Shrew Tamed was entered at the 1861 Royal Academy Exhibition and caused controversy because of its subject matter.
The subplot contains stories of Maggie's brother, Shep Sheppard, (Glover) who is a fundamentalist preacher that has followed his father's misogynistic ways. Sheppard sides with Pink when it comes to laying down the law, and a hunt ensues for Baston after stories are revealed of him being an axe murderer.
Coming on like a throbbing new-wave funk monster--think Chic brawling with Kraftwerk and Blondie--the accompanying video features iSandi laying down the law, dressed as a school teacher (calm down, boys!). Michel Radermecker and Paul Jeffrey have now joined the ranks to finally give Seize the settled lineup they’d been searching for, and with plenty of activity in 2010, it finally looks like Seize are heading for the stars …catch them before they go supernova.
Daniel I. Greenberg (born c. 1965), writes on legislation and machinery of government issues. He specialises in the meaning of words, and is the General Editor of Westlaw UK Annotated Statutes and Insight Encyclopaedia; the Editor of Craies on Legislation,Sweet & Maxwell, Stroud's Judicial DictionarySweet & Maxwell, and Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law,Sweet & Maxwell, and the Editor in Chief of the Statute Law Review.Oxford University Press He published Laying Down the Law Sweet & Maxwell, and is co-author of Legislating for Wales.
A concert film of this event was made by Richard Lowenstein and released later that year. Australian Made: The Movie (1987). IMDb.com "Good Times" peaked at No. 2 on the Australian chart and several months later was featured in the Joel Schumacher film The Lost Boys, allowing it to chart Top 40 in the US. The "Good Times"/"Laying Down the Law" release was the first in a long line of songs Barnes would record with other well known singers and artists.
In 1896, Chamberlain wrote to his aunt: > The English press is the most insufferably arrogant, generally ignorant, the > most passionately one-sided and narrow-minded in its judgments that I know; > it is the universal bully, always laying down the law for everybody, always > speaking as if it were umpire of the universe, always abusing everybody all > round and putting party spirit in all its judgments, envenoming thus the > most peaceful discussions. It is this and this only which has made England > hated all the world over.
When the case went before Edward Coke, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, he overturned the decision of the King, and held that cases may be tried only by those with legal training and subject to the rule of law. Coke stated that common law cases were "not to be decided by natural reason but by artificial reason and judgment of law, which law is an art which requires long study and experience":Cook, C. (2001). Laying down the law. Sydney: LexisNexis Butterworths.
Pritchard lobbied Guyana and private sources for grants that lowered the Arawak consumption of turtle meat, and helped them to farm chickens. He hired Arawaks at his study camp to tag turtles for research and to police nesting grounds to prevent attacks from poachers. The turtle population has increased, he says, because turtle protection is now "a family discipline thing" among Arawaks "rather than an outsider laying down the law." Along the way, Pritchard's own scholarship has benefited from centuries' worth of tribal turtle knowledge.
The office decor includes the Jonathan Swift quote "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster". When thinking about investing the proceeds, he meets Bill and Hillary Clinton at Whitewater. The business had been threatened by locals angry that the competition was racially integrated, and Forrest defends Kranz against the bullies. The final chapter deals with Forrest arguing with Forrest Jr., who has taken up to adolescent rebellion by clandestinely drinking beer, and Forrest Sr. laying down the law in an old- fashioned way.
Law signed with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) on October 1, 2012; nearing the end of the 2012 CFL season. He played in 3 games that season and recorded 2 quarterback sacks. The following year proved to be a breakout season for Law, as he played in 16 of the 18 regular season games, tallying 41 tackles and 14 sacks.Stamps defensive lineman laying down the Law on CFL quarterbacks As a pending free agent, Law had a workout with the Baltimore Ravens (NFL) in December 2014.
Fellow singer Katy Perry and her 2008 song "I Kissed a Girl" were referenced in the lyrics for "Whatcha Think About That". A R&B; and electropop midtempo song, "Whatcha Think About That" sees the group "laying down the law to a deadbeat boyfriend" over a melody of chants, and vocal harmonies and bhangra-ish guitar. A reviewer for Newsday noted that they sounded "sleek and empowered" on the song. "Whatcha Think About That" features guest verses from Missy Elliott and a sample of "Je M'appelle Jane", written by Mickael Furnon and performed by Jane Birkin.
Trial by Jury, or Laying Down the Law as it is commonly known, is an oil-on- canvas painting from 1840 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer, which satirises the legal profession. It depicts dogs in the roles of members of the court with a French poodle centre stage as the judge. The painting was inspired by a chance comment by a judge, while at dinner with Landseer, that the French poodle belonging to amateur artist and renowned socialite, the Count d'Orsay, "would make a capital Lord Chancellor". Landseer was a member of the Royal Academy and had become famous for his paintings and drawings of animals.
Both songs were recorded, with "Laying Down the Law" also written, and "Good Times" film clip made, all on the same day. Tim Farriss, INXS lead guitarist, was unavailable for the recordings, as he was unable to be contacted due to fishing commitments. The single peaked at No. 2 on the Australian charts, and months later was featured in the Joel Schumacher 1987 film The Lost Boys and the associated The Lost Boys soundtrack. This allowed it to peak at No. 47 in the United States on 1 August 1987. The tour had a budget of $3.25 million, when the accounts were finally tabulated the promoters had lost $30,000 each.
The Law was formed when Paul Rodgers met Kenney Jones in a nightclub in London and decided to put a band together. The two teamed up with different supporting musicians in order to give Rodgers freedom to pursue whatever music style he felt like. Unlike his previous projects, in which he wrote or co-wrote most of the material, Rodgers relied heavily on outside writers to write songs for the album (such as Phil Collen, Chris Rea and Bryan Adams); the only chart topper of the album, "Laying Down the Law", was written by Rodgers himself. The album features notable appearances by David Gilmour, Bryan Adams and Chris Rea.
In 1983–84, she was a regular background vocalist on Alan Thicke's Show the "Thicke of the Night" and in 1988, was part of the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary Celebration. Writing collaborations followed, including "Price of Love" (with Jack Ponti and Vic Pepe) on the Baton Rouge album Lights Out on the Playground, "If You're Not The One For Me" (with Bruce Gaitsch), sung by Bill Champlin and Brenda Russell, on Tom Scott's album Keep This Love Alive, and "Stone Cold", released by Paul Rodgers (Queen/Bad Company) with his band The Law on their album Laying Down The Law (1991). She was a background vocalist on Peter Cetera's album World Falling Down.
In the earliest times, according to Dalabon cosmology, men passed the night-time under water, and had stumps for legs. The crocodile was master of the secret of fire. This changed when the kingfisher managed to filch a firebrand from the crocodile, and set fire to the landscape, and men were burnt, leading them to learn the art of cooking and also acquire the legs they now have. Two pairs of immemorial, ancestral people (Nayunghyungkig), the Yirritja men Bulanj and Kodjok, and the Duwa women Kalidjan and Kamanj, -collectively referred to as the Nakoorkko - wandered the earth, laying down the law (walu-no) inscribed in the nature of the Dalabon landscape and its reflex in Dalabon social customs.
Mushroom Records had released material by Models, managed by Murphy, while their touring partners I'm Talking were managed by Ken West and had released material on Regular Records. These band managers used their record labels and industry contacts to provide other local acts that had toured internationally, The Saints, The Triffids and Mental As Anything. The Triffids' guitarist Graham Lee stated that Hutchence had insisted on them being part of the bill, on the basis of their international success, even though they were not well renowned in Australia. To promote the tour, INXS and Barnes (ex-Cold Chisel) recorded two songs, a cover of The Easybeats song "Good Times", and "Laying Down the Law" which Barnes co-wrote with INXS members Garry Gary Beers, Andrew Farriss, Jon Farriss, Michael Hutchence and Kirk Pengilly.
The Law, Rodgers' 1991 musical venture with former The Who and Faces drummer Kenney Jones, produced Billboard's number one AOR chart hit "Laying Down the Law" written by Rodgers, but the album peaked at number 126 on the Billboard 200 chart. A second album can be found on the bootleg market, which is often referred to as The Law II. It is believed that this collection of songs were leftovers from the first album. Rodgers acknowledged the influence of Jimi Hendrix by collaborating with Steve Vai, Hendrix's Band of Gypsys (Buddy Miles and Billy Cox) and the London Metropolitan Orchestra and recorded the track "Bold As Love", on the Hendrix tribute album In From The Storm. Then Rodgers teamed with Journey guitarist Neal Schon and released The Hendrix Set, a live 5-track CD, recorded in 1993 with Rodgers' interpretations of Hendrix songs.
Lead singer Michael Hutchence in 1986. Whilst on an eight-month break before beginning work on a new album, their manager Murphy decided to stage a series of major outdoor concerts across Australia, featuring INXS, Jimmy Barnes, Models, Divinyls, Mental as Anything, The Triffids and I'm Talking. To promote the tour INXS recorded two songs with Jimmy Barnes of Cold Chisel: The Easybeats cover "Good Times" and "Laying Down the Law" which Barnes co-wrote with Beers, Andrew Farriss, Jon Farriss, Hutchence and Pengilly. "Good Times" was used as the theme song for the Australian Made series of concerts in the summer of 1986–1987. It peaked at No. 2 on the Australian charts, and months later was featured in the Joel Schumacher film The Lost Boys and its soundtrack, allowing it to peak at No. 47 in the US on 1 August 1987.
The Law were an English rock group formed in 1991 by singer Paul Rodgers (ex- Free, Bad Company and The Firm) and drummer Kenney Jones (ex-Small Faces/Faces and The Who). They intended to use different supporting musicians, to allow Rodgers to pursue whatever style he wished. They assembled a core band of studio musicians, consisting of Jim Barber (whose credits include The Rolling Stones, Ruby Turner and Mick Jagger's solo album Primitive Cool) as the main guitarist, second guitarist John Staehely (ex-Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne) and bassist Pino Palladino (formerly of Paul Young's and Jools Holland's bands), with guest spots by guitarists such as David Gilmour, Bryan Adams and Chris Rea. The band produced the Billboard #1 AOR Chart hit "Laying Down the Law", written by Rodgers, but the group's only album peaked at a disappointing #126 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart.
The Jimmy Barnes band that toured Australia in support of the album featured Howe and Arnott, plus keyboardist Peter Kekell, former Rose Tattoo guitarist Robin Riley and American guitarist Dave Amato. With the release of the album in America, Barnes headed off with a band of Canadian musicians hand-picked by his North American management team and toured with ZZ Top. It was the first time since 1981 that he had toured without his family as part of his entourage, as Jane was pregnant. Shortly after their son Jackie (named after Jackie Wilson) was born on 4 February 1986, she and the children joined him in the US for the rest of the tour. In 1986 Barnes recorded two songs with INXS, an Easybeats cover "Good Times" and "Laying Down The Law", which he co-wrote with INXS members Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence. "Good Times" was used as the theme song for the Australian Made series of concerts that toured the country in the summer of 1986–87.

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