Sentences with phrase «arm of the law found»

When the long arm of the law found me, I was escorted to the municipal lockup.

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Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Employment law experts say they have found significant problems with the executive and Senate sexual harassment bills; the New York arm of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), a bar association comprised of employment attorneys, has asked its members to oppose the measures.

The soldier (name withheld) was alleged to have committed the offence on a minor was found guilty on one count charge punishable under Armed Forces Act Cap 20, laws of the federal Republic of Nigeria as amended 2004.

McDowall saw that the effect of these laws would give him a laboratory in which to test the arms - race hypothesis: he could find out whether criminals, knowing their victims are more likely to be armed with handguns, are more likely to use guns themselves.

Marc is settling in to his new role as Baby Daddy and Lianna is lost in the arms of the hunky Dan once again.When Oliver declares it time to meet the Texan in - laws, Clara is ecstatic and even more so when she discovers that the introduction will take place on the sandy beaches of Mexico!Will Clara be able to win over Oliver's audacious mother?What secrets will unfold when she finds an ally in the beaut...

For us, while finding a new rental home is always more challenging, we do avoid homes with «no pets» designations because, even though we don't have to (we could rent one of those homes with the law behind us) we want to find a landlord that loves pets as much as we do and would welcome at least some dogs with open arms.

In many of their territories, Afro - Colombians have found themselves literally in the line of fire between government forces and armed actors operating outside the law who are in dispute over territory, agricultural and mineral profits and control of illicit crops.

I find it reassuring that Gonzales is not being met with open arms in the world of Big Law.

Pollard is to join the top 20 US law firm's London arm in the New Year to found and head the practice along with a team of two associates.

At the law office of Bailey & Galyen, we won't charge you for an evaluation of your case, so you can find out what your rights are without it costing you an arm and a leg.

Armed with my law degree at the beginning of my career, I found myself, more by accident than design, working as a legal editor at Sweet and Maxwell in London; I was fortunate indeed.

The principle enunciated in the title of the entertaining article «Judge not that ye be judged» (see NLJ, 26 January 2007, p 146) by Geoffrey Bindman ought to be compulsory reading for those who so eagerly find fault with solicitors in the various arms of the Law Society and beyond — especially, the new regulator who wants more, not less, complaints.

Thus, in Oscanyan v. Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 103 U. S. 261, it was held that, where it was shown by the opening statement of counsel that the contract on which the suit was brought was void as being either in violation of law or against public policy, the trial court might properly direct the jury to find a verdict for the defendant.