Definition of "law-and-order" []

• Advocating and following the established social order and the statutes written to enforce such order: running for election as the law-and-order candidate. (adjective)

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• "Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for Cuccinelli, known as a law-and-order conservative, said the office supports Haynesworth's effort."
• "* They needn't have worried: the Liberals, as under Stéphane Dion, remain its staunchest allies, recently embracing the former's brutally primitive law-and-order agenda, for example, and earlier voting with the Cons to abolish pay equity."
• "Perry can play to the party base and capitalize on his Thompson-like, tough, law-and-order persona."