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"Lawful" in a Sentence (14 examples)
He is the lawful owner of the company.
He recognized his son as lawful heir.
I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished.
We need to handle this in a lawful manner.
A totally lawless state will be quite lawful carried through space and time.
I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other.
All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
"Thou hast whate'er 'tis lawful to advise; / go, and with deathless deeds raise Ilion to the skies."
Is it lawful to conscript such young men against their will?
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Lawful money is always a land asset and can only be issued by an actual land jurisdiction government — not a corporation.
The laws are controversial. Forcing someone to work during a lawful strike is a major step. It was always likely to inflame a situation, and so it proved with LNER. ASLEF's counter-tactic came as a five-day walkout, which would have been the longest stoppage for many years had LNER not withdrawn its plan.
Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?
[…] so that the person's actions are merely the inevitable product of lawful causes stemming from prior events […]
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