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law-abiding citizen

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meanings of law-abidingand citizen


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law-abiding
adjective
uk /ˈlɔː.əˌbaɪ.dɪŋ/ us /ˈlɑː.əˌbaɪ.dɪŋ/
Someone who is law-abiding obeys ...
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citizen
noun[C]
uk /ˈsɪt.ɪ.zən/ us /ˈsɪt̬.ə.zən/
a person who is a member of a particular country and who has rights because of being born there or because of being given rights, or a person who lives in a particular town ...
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Examples of law-abiding citizen


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Or he might conform because he believes that he has a moral obligation to be a law-abidingcitizen.
That is the basic reason for having a police force in any nation—to protect the law-abidingcitizen from the law breaker.
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That was cruel treatment for a law-abidingcitizen.
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There is nothing more aggravating for the law-abidingcitizen than to see other people breaking the law and getting away with it.
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It is important that the county council is encouraged to take action as and where appropriate in support of the ordinary law-abidingcitizen.
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There is always the safeguard of the words "reasonable excuse" for the law-abidingcitizen.
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I cannot and will not support a system that means attacks upon the good law-abidingcitizen, while the culprit gets away with it.
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This emphasises how the law-abidingcitizen is penalised while the villains go laughing from the court.
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From fixed penalty notices to severer penalties, it will be the criminal, not the law-abidingcitizen, who pays.
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The ordinary law-abidingcitizen need not be affected by the existence of these special powers at all.
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That is the supreme and fundamental right of the law-abidingcitizen in this country, to which all other rights are subservient.
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He is an innocent, 43-year-old, law-abidingcitizen, who was just going home.
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In the present climate, the criminal has absolutely no fear—but the law-abidingcitizen certainly has.
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In the recent closure of schools, the authorities did not support the law-abidingcitizen or his children.
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My son is 17 years old and is a law-abidingcitizen (like thousands of other youngsters).
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It targets the essentially law-abidingcitizen, yet does nothing to tackle the rogues responsible for increased lawlessness on our roads.
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It is the law-abidingcitizen who tries to play the game by the rules—if he can understand them—who suffers.
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I suggest that, so far as one can, the time has come to leave in peace the ordinary law-abidingcitizen of this country.
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That is a worrying situation for any law-abidingcitizen.
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