bend the law
Example Sentences
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But Jimmy, for all of his small cons and efforts to bend the law to the breaking point, is essentially a good man.
From Salon • May 24, 2022
And given that he might have the Supreme Court’s ear, he’s well-positioned to bend the law in more just direction.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2021
“He was strictly honest. He was very competent. He had a lot of tact and diplomacy that he could bring into dealing with animal owners. But he would not bend the law for people.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2020
Do we all have to break, or bend, the law to succeed?
From Forbes • Jul. 28, 2015
Prodigies the most brilliant cannot make it do violence to itself or bend the law of righteousness and love beneath any manifestation, however striking, of brute force.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste
