law-abiding in the PONS Dictionary

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For more than 50 years, the municipality evolved into a dynamic yet peaceful community of law-abiding people.
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There he realized that he was not living in a law-abiding society, that theory taught at university and judicial practice are two different things.
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He has also sported a neat short-cropped hairstyle to look like a serious law-abiding police official.
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Be disciplined and law-abiding; not chaotic and lawless.
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Patrols and vehicle checkpoints on public roads were designed to hinder the activities of paramilitary groups and to reassure the law-abiding general public.
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Differential association predicts that an individual will choose the criminal path when the balance of definitions for law-breaking exceeds those for law-abiding.
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Would not a "real" threat be more likely to inspire the younger generation to be law-abiding than an urban legend?
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Reports indicate several bystanders were also hit with pepper spray for law-abiding behavior.
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This caused great inconvenience to the law-abiding citizens on whom the soldiers were billeted.
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This will transform the contemporary backward, not law-abiding, undemocratic society into highly developed, law-abiding, democratically minded, moral society aware of its citizenship responsibilities.
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