This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

And Belize is a mostly law-abiding country, which makes it a lot safer to travel in than its near neighbours.

This is a law-abiding country with a low crime rate - but take the usual precautions in any jostling crowd.

Having been one of the most law-abiding countries in the world - a byword for stability, order, and decency - are we changing into something else?

This is a frighteningly law-abiding country.

If you don't--it's a fine, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman within hail.'

In Tunisia, once one of the most law-abiding countries in the Arab world, violent crime has rocketed - not least sectarian offences.

The reason it was not attained was that it was conducted as if the Iraqis knew or could learn to run a law-abiding country by simple American hope.

Police commissioner Yohanan Danino told the press that "The lynch in Jerusalem was the most severe and contemptible act imaginable in a democratic law-abiding country."

One month later, he told a Japanese parliamentary committee that "[Taiwan's] democracy is considerably matured and liberal economics is deeply ingrained, so it is a law-abiding country.

Mainichi Daily News reported that on 9 March 2006 he referred to Taiwan as a "law-abiding country", which drew strong protest from Beijing, which considers the island a part of China.

At the time of the Austrian elections, when the coalition came into being, we accused this law-abiding country of illegality and sought to use all our powers to get our own way, and the same is happening now.

Therefore, we have publicly called on the United States to desist from unilateral action and seek to resolve our differences according to the lawful multilateral channels which are readily available and are the sole means that a law-abiding country should choose.

No one is seriously predicting that South Africa or the other law-abiding countries here will go the way of Zimbabwe, where Mr. Mugabe and his followers have been assailed by the United Nations, the State Department and human rights groups for arresting critics, harassing journalists and threatening judges.