How to Use higher law in a Sentence

higher law

noun

• The highest law enforcement officer in the state should step in now and say that he's got this.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 21 Apr. 2018
• AG Barr is the highest law enforcement officer & the worst.
  — Breanna Edwards, Essence, 2 Oct. 2019
• Because protecting the people of the United States should be our highest law.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 26 Mar. 2018
• Bitcoin can get by without banks or governments because algorithms are its highest law.
  — Joshua Oliver, Slate Magazine, 5 Jan. 2018
• But there is a potential cost to tarnishing the reputations of the nation’s highest law-enforcement agencies and officials.
  — Peter Nicholas, WSJ, 29 May 2018
• Those looking to unseat the first black woman to hold the county's highest law enforcement position, have blasted her handling of the matter as haphazard and indecisive.
  — Don Babwin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2020
• In a very real sense, Becerra’s presence as the highest law enforcement official in California is a rebuke to those who willfully refuse to fix a broken system.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 11 Sep. 2017
• And where abolitionists preached slavery as a violation against the higher law, Southerners angrily countered with their own version of the deity, that it was sanctioned by the Constitution.
  — Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• But last week, Manhattan prosecutors were surprised to receive a letter from the second-highest law enforcement official in the country inquiring about Manafort’s case.
  — Katie Benner, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
• But last week, Manhattan prosecutors were surprised to receive a letter from the second-highest law enforcement official in the country inquiring about Mr. Manafort’s case.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2019
• In these states, there is no higher law than progressive cultural orthodoxy and even dissenting citizens can be conscripted into the ideological crusade.
  — David French, National Review, 16 Jan. 2018
• Many natural-law adherents believe that this higher law originates from God rather than humanistic values, although not all versions of the philosophy are explicitly religious.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018

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