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• Those skills will stay with me for the rest of my life, both in and outside the law.
  — Laura Wolk, National Review, 23 Oct. 2021
• But the business world is brutal, inside and outside the law.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• In terms of who gets to get away with doing things outside the law and who doesn’t, especially in real time and or after the fact.
  — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2020
• Each tag, each piece insisted on the possibility of a life outside the law, and this was for them its own directive.
  — Hazlitt, 5 Oct. 2022
• Other items show how Ginsburg’s influence grew outside the law.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• An explosion of strange new narcotics is hitting the streets, as clandestine chemists rush to produce drugs that exist outside the law.
  — Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2018
• Not just art thieves but Middle American sociopaths living outside the law.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2022
• The process begins when speculators, who tend to operate outside the law, buy or seize land, sell the timber, graze cattle on it for several years and then sell it to a soya farmer.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• Doing so could justify actions that stand outside the normal political process and maybe even outside the law.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 16 Nov. 2021
• The case has pulled back the curtain on misconduct among some of America's most elite service members, while offering a brief window into how some have addressed grievances outside the law.
  — CBS News, 15 Jan. 2021
• After running into a woman who has been beaten bloody, Hardy’s character enacts revenge outside the law.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2022
• Butler thinks about biopower often: All bodies are potentially outside the law, and all information a means of control.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
• Most commentators, including the Wall Street Journal's editorial board—a vocal supporter of the President—view the plan to pay $400 as outside the law.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2020
• Cosby’s most memorable protagonists — from car thieves to fathers avenging their sons’ murders — were often acting outside the law after the law had proved inadequate to the task.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• Cosby’s most memorable protagonists — from car thieves to fathers avenging their sons’ murders — were often acting outside the law after the law had proved inadequate to the task.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• Wallace garnered more than 400 signatures and many critical messages from students, alumni and faculty members from both within and outside the law school.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 5 June 2021
• The lawsuit argues that the agency acted outside the law by determining claimants weren't eligible for benefits more than a year after benefits were paid.
  — Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2022
• But some growers and processers remain outside the law, joined by a recent influx of outsiders in Jackson and Josephine counties who seek large profits by selling on the black market outside of Oregon while avoiding state taxes and regulations.
  — CBS News, 14 Oct. 2021
• Recently, Trump, his family and his attorneys have unleashed a torrent of attacks on James, painting her as a partisan prosecutor acting outside the law in a series of media appearances and a court filing.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
• What this documentary really offers is an immersive John McAfee experience, plunging viewers into the sometimes dangerous mania of a man determined to prove some kind of a point by living as far outside the law as possible.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• They could be semidomesticated by states or companies into regular armies, operate as a group of independent petty entrepreneurs in a shared enterprise, or act outside the law altogether as smugglers, bandits, or pirates.
  — James Belich, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023
• But a ProPublica analysis of 2020 insurance company financial filings found that insurers offering plans outside the law typically kept higher percentages of premiums collected, sometimes much higher.
  — Jenny Deam, ProPublica, 8 May 2021

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024