Giuliani can be counted on, too, to hog the spotlight, ignore the evidence and bend the law.
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Billions is the story of two ruthless geniuses and their intricate scheming as they bend the law in order to settle personal feuds.
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As recently as last Friday, Putin said he would not bend the law to cling onto power after his final term as president ended.
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It's a country in which people in powerful positions — like Tony Stark, for example — can often bend the law to work in their favor.
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In his address, Mr. Barr suggested the president has acted within his powers and that his opponents were willing to bend the law to stop him.
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"Bob is appropriately aggressive, but he's not going to push things that will bend the law or test procedure in new ways," said Mr. Kirschner, the former homicide prosecutor.
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Sadly, as so often happens in countries where wealth can bend the law, despite hefty charges, Premchai quickly made bail and subsequently failed to appear for several police summons.
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" The Heritage Foundation's John Malcolm told BuzzFeed News that Sessions has been essentially doing just that — repairing the past administration's "misguided attempt to bend the law in a political direction.
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For starters, Cohen's testimony paints a picture of Trump as an egotist who is obsessed with public perceptions and is willing to bend the law to get what he wants.
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In his words and acts, critics and experts said, Mr. Trump has sent a permissive message to people in law enforcement that they can bend the law, if not break it.
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The situation sheds light on one of the ugly truths of the banking industry: Firms are sometimes more inclined to ignore red flags, take on risks, or even bend the law than they are to lose a wealthy client.
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ITT also partnered with a Wall Street investment bank to set up a private lending program called PEAKS, which, through a complex series of transactions, helped the company bend the law to legally meet the definition of a "private" loan.
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Trump similarly makes no secret of the fact that he privileges obsequious, cringing (often unreciprocated) loyalty above all else, and that he will bend the law whenever he feels like it if that results in more fealty and fawning praise.
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Finally, tell us more about what you think: Do you agree with the critics and experts quoted in this article who say that Mr. Trump has sent a permissive message to people in law enforcement that they can bend the law, if not break it?
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Role Call: A gruff Texas cop named Bobby Andes, who's willing to bend the law to see justice done for a bereaved man As a huge fan of hard-boiled fiction author Jim Thompson (The Grifters), Michael Shannon needed little persuading to join Tom Ford's slippery psychological thriller as Lieut.
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The testimony underscores many of the unsavory themes and stories that have recurred in public reporting about Mr. Trump — he inflates his wealth, makes racist remarks, threatens his enemies and tries to bend the law to his favor — but puts them on the record, under oath, in the voice of a man who was one of Mr. Trump's closest aides.
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As officers of the law, the Earps were known to bend the law in their favor when it affected their gambling and saloon interests, which earned them further enmity from the Cowboy faction.
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Behan tended to ignore the Earps' complaints about the McLaurys' and Clantons' horse thieving and cattle rustling. The Earps were known to bend the law in their favor when it affected their gambling and saloon interests, which earned them further enmity with the Cowboy faction.
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They were resented by the Cowboys for their tactics as when Wyatt Earp buffaloed Curly Bill when he accidentally shot Marshal Fred White. The Earps were also known to bend the law in their favor when it affected their gambling and saloon interests, which earned them further enmity with the Cowboy faction. Under the surface were other tensions aggravating the simmering distrust. Most of the leading cattlemen and Cowboys were Confederate sympathizers and Democrats from Southern states, especially Missouri and Texas.
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Wellman Anthony Santee is a former race car driver who has turned to a life of crime since the death of his mother. Santee and his friend Eddie Turner bend the law for profit by hauling exotic stolen cars. Santee's latest assignment is to transport such goods across the desert, but a Highway Patrol officer pulls him over. The officer notices that Turner carries a gun hidden behind his back and prepares to arrest him, when suddenly a pair of cops named Frank Severance and Jack "Rudy" Rudisill show up.
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One episode has Uncle Jesse mentioning that he and Boss had known one another "since we were kids", and others mention that they had run moonshine together. Just like the exact specifications of the Duke Boys' probation rules, the extent of just what was and wasn't within Boss's powers often seemed to vary from episode to episode. However, this can be countermanded slightly, as Boss would often bend the law and make up rules to suit himself. Every morning, Boss Hogg would drink coffee and eat raw liver (as seen in the pilot episode, "One Armed Bandits" and several later episodes).
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This political and organised crime comes as a shock to Dhruva and his friends. Dhruva takes them to his house and shows his research on connecting all small unrelated incidents into the global view of a hidden network of politicians, industrialists and criminals who bend the law for their own financial benefits. He singles out three prominent business oligarchs, including pharmaceutical mogul Dheeraj Chandra (Sayaji Shinde), don Irfan Ali (Madhusudhan Rao) and a minister. When Dhruva tries following Dheeraj Chandra, he realises that all three of them work as a group and they all work for an affluent scientist Siddharth Abhimanyu (Aravind Swamy).
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O'Connor refused to interfere, finding that the formative Irish Free State, unlike General Macready, did have power to establish military courts that could impose the death penalty. He summed up: While O'Connor was universally regarded as a man of integrity, who would never consciously bend the law, it is possible that his attitude had hardened since Egan; certainly it cannot have helped Childers that his allies had destroyed the Four Courts, a fact to which O'Connor drew attention in stressing the magnitude of the problems which the new Government faced. Childers appealed, but before this could be heard, he was executed three days later.
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Mithran and his friend catch the gang and their leader and hand them over to the police; however, four days later the leader of the gang comes to the IPS headquarters with the home minister. This political and organised crime comes as a shock to Mithran and his friends. Mithran takes them to his house and shows his research on connecting all small unrelated incidents into the global view of a hidden network of politicians, industrialists and criminals who bend the law for their own financial benefits. He singles out three prominent business oligarchs (a pharmaceutical mogul Ashok Pandian (Nagineedu), a mineral magnate Charles Chelladurai (Saiju Kurup) and a don Perumal Swamy (Madhusudhan Rao).
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He finally goes to see Commissioner Gordon at Gotham City Police H.Q. The Commissioner suggests that Batman does not want to find any clues because the suspect is someone close to him. Batman suddenly leaves Gordon to reminisce about the first time he met Batman; how Batman initially only left scrawled notes on the criminals he tied up and left for the police, until one day he caught a man about to attack Gordon with a knife. Batman quickly left, but later that night, he came to Gordon's office. Gordon pulled a gun and prepared to shoot him, but Batman explained that they were two of a kind, and that he was able to bend the law that Gordon could not in order to achieve justice.
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