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prep.phr. (context idiomatic English) exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else.
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Above the Law (also known as Nico) is a 1988 American action film written, produced and directed by Andrew Davis, and also produced by and starring Steven Seagal in his film debut. The film co-stars Pam Grier, Sharon Stone, Daniel Faraldo and Henry Silva. This came about after a successful screen test, financed by Michael Ovitz, leading to Seagal being offered a contract by Warner Bros. The film was set and filmed on location in Chicago. The film was released in the United States on April 8, 1988.
Above the Law may refer to:
- legibus solutus, doctrine of Roman Law
- Above the Law (blog), a law blog
- Righting Wrongs, a 1986 Hong Kong film titled "Above the Law" for international release
- Above the Law (film), a 1988 action film starring Steven Seagal
- Above the Law (group), an American hip hop group
- Above the Law (TV series), an Australian television series
- "Above the Law", a song by Bad Meets Evil from Hell: The Sequel
Above the Law is a hip hop group from Pomona, California, founded in 1989 by Cold 187um, Laylaw, KMG the Illustrator, Go Mack, and DJ Total K-Oss
Above the Law was an Australian crime/ drama television series broadcast on Network Ten from February 2000 to August 2001.
The drama showed the life for the residents of an apartment complex which features a police station on the ground floor.
Thirty 1-hour episodes were shown, and five episodes remain unaired.
AboveTheLaw.com (often abbreviated as ATL) is an online news and commentary publication about law, law schools, and the legal industry as a whole that reaches over one million visitors per month. Founded in 2006, Above the Law’s reporting mixes straightforward accounts of industry developments such as mergers, salary increases, and bonus announcements — offered with wry, sometimes biting commentary — with stories about the unsavory, salacious, and insane escapades of law students, lawyers, and judges across the country.
The blog has received some positive attention (In 2008, Above the Law was listed as one of the ABA Journal 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers. A 2007 article in'' The Washington Post'' referred to website as "a must-read legal blog.")
In June 2013, the web site's traffic exceeded one million visitors per month.
Usage examples of "above the law".
On air, he accused the Detroit underworld and high ranking officials in the Bowles administration of collusion, of placing mobsters above the law.
He was the law, he was above the law--he ruled with the force of royalty through an effective political machine while serving as governor of the state (1928-31) and U.
It wasn't so much that he was above the law as he was one of the people who decided what the law meant.
Either the French and the Germans consider you above the law or else you have managed to outwit the French and Germans.
Men like the one salivating over the womanly assets of an overeager girl considered themselves to be above the law.
She did know that the people who ran the main computers were potentially above the law, so the safeguards against illegal tampering were stringent.