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The choice of Mr. Alfano, a native of Sicily and one of the main architects of the premier's push to overhaul the Italian judiciary, is likely to clash with the League's law-and-order platform and its history as a former separatist party for Italy's richer northern regions.
Berlusconi Lays Out Succession Scenario Stacy Meichtry 2011
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The magazine quoted Chief Jenkins calling SNCC the “violent, nonstudent committee,” a laugh line he would use over the next few years on the law-and-order luncheon circuit.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Perry can play to the party base and capitalize on his Thompson-like, tough, law-and-order persona.
Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto: Rick Perry: Fred Thompson and Barry Goldwater's Lovechild Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto 2011
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A new conservative government, which won elections on a law-and-order platform, wants to shut many of the country's 700 coffee shops and 400 "grow" shops, which legally sell equipment needed to farm hemp.
Joint Effort: Dutch Utilities Help Police Smoke Out Pot Farmers John W. Miller 2011
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Much like Fred Thompson in 2008, Rick Perry is a tough, law-and-order guy.
Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto: Rick Perry: Fred Thompson and Barry Goldwater's Lovechild Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto 2011
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* They needn't have worried: the Liberals, as under Stéphane Dion, remain its staunchest allies, recently embracing the former's brutally primitive law-and-order agenda, for example, and earlier voting with the Cons to abolish pay equity.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for Cuccinelli, known as a law-and-order conservative, said the office supports Haynesworth's effort.
Man imprisoned for 27 years hopes that some evidence is enough for freedom Maria Glod 2011
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Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for Cuccinelli, known as a law-and-order conservative, said the office supports Haynesworth's effort.
Man imprisoned for 27 years hopes that some evidence is enough for freedom Maria Glod 2011
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Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for Cuccinelli, known as a law-and-order conservative, said the office supports Haynesworth's effort.
Man imprisoned for 27 years hopes that some evidence is enough for freedom Maria Glod 2011
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I think people are resorting to hysteria when they generalize that conditions across all of Mexico are deteriorating to a point of break-down in law-and-order.
Concern for MX Govt 2009
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