People think rural areas are like lawless frontiers.

Analysts said Pakistan might also use the deployment to finally assert control over the lawless frontier.

The main focus is along the lawless 1,600-mile frontier with Afghanistan, where insurgent commanders can recruit, re-supply and seek finance with little interference.

The Omaha Claim Club and others like it are credited to bringing order to a lawless frontier.

The Wild West was quickly transformed from a lawless, agrarian frontier to what would become an urbanized, industrialized economic and political powerhouse.

As such, jagds tend to be harsh, lawless frontiers, uncontrolled by any nation.

Manistee was a wild, lawless frontier.

Such is the corporate but still consummately dangerous world of "security" or "risk management" firms that have struck gold in the lawless frontiers of Iraq.

The other problem with seeing the internet as a lawless frontier is that it validates stealing.

"As if the state outside the metro area is a lawless frontier," Cameron complained.