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Determining just who was in charge that day is a focal point as investigators try to make sense of a series of poor law enforcement decisions and delays in the police response that could well have cost lives.
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Josh Margolin, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2022
Compare this to the Britannica’s article on poor law, still in force then and painstakingly described over a number of pages.
—Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
Get our daily newsletter Breeding tigers and trading them and their parts is banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, but this treaty is widely flouted in Asia because of poor law-enforcement and high demand for tigers.
—The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
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Josh Margolin, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2022
Compare this to the Britannica’s article on poor law, still in force then and painstakingly described over a number of pages.
—Marilynne Robinson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
Get our daily newsletter Breeding tigers and trading them and their parts is banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, but this treaty is widely flouted in Asia because of poor law-enforcement and high demand for tigers.
—The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
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“Poor law.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poor%20law. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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