stand your ground
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7.9
- noun
- /stænd jʊr ɡraʊnd/
- NSFW
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ley de legítima defensa sin deber de retirada
- We agreed that Zimmerman should have been arrested since the 'Stand Your Ground' law didn't seem valid in this situation.
- Stand Your Ground law
- Stand Your Ground defense
- stand-your-ground states
And Illinois, as it happens, doesn't have a stand your ground law, but it does have a castle law.
- And Illinois, as it happens, doesn't have a stand your ground law, but it does have a castle law.
- But with Trayvon and this Stand Your ground law, it said any Tom, Dick or Harry could kill our children.
- When you get to what was the one like the Trayvon Martin one, the stand your ground law, slightest self-defense law is super complicated.
- When you get to what was the one like the Trayvon Martin won the stand your ground law, I say slightest self-defense law is super complicated.
Examples
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That was the law before the stand-your-ground law was passed.
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Because of the stand your ground law, the State Attorney in Sanford, Florida, did not want to prosecute Zimmerman.
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The stand your ground law is a great law.
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Well, more than anything, it's because of the stand your ground law and what Zimmerman did.
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There's a law in this state called the stand your ground law.
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So that matters because the Texas stand your ground law Viva says as follows.
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Florida's 'stand your ground' law and its relation to homicides.
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He says they are all trying to get the stand your ground law repealed in Florida.
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In cases of self-defense, the stand your ground law allows individuals to use reasonable force without retreating.
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The jury was instructed about the stand your ground doctrine before reaching their verdict.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents combine transparently to give the basic sense 'hold your position / refuse to retreat' (stand = hold, your = possession, ground = position), so a B1 learner who knows the words will likely infer that core meaning. However, the detailed legal sense (permission to use reasonable or deadly force and removal of a duty to retreat) is a technical extension not predictable from the parts, so the expression is only partially compositional.
Etymology
Stand your ground as a legal term also uses the picture of someone who will stand on their ground and defend themselves instead of running away. So, the law means a person may 'use force in self-defence' without first trying to run away if they believe they are in danger.