Sample sentences for MARTIAL LAW

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the system of rules that takes effect when a military authority takes control of the normal administration of justice

The authorities of the city and state deliberately inflamed the public mind to the point where they could not keep the peace without martial law.
Richard Wright -- Native Son

How could he not have known that staying in New Orleans, a city under something like martial law, would endanger him?
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
It reminded me of some crankheads we busted in the twenties when martial law was declared.
James Dashner -- The Kill Order
But for us here acting not as casuists or moralists, it is a case practical, and under martial law practically to be dealt with.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
Pakistan now operated under martial law.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
My own guess is that it's this business with the pope, even more than the martial law thing.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
Unable to control the protesters any longer, Diem's soldiers place the entire city of Hue under martial law.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
It was incidents of this sort that compelled the authorities to declare martial law and enforce the regulations deriving from it.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
Someone tried to assassinate Korea's president and he declared martial law.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Georgia was virtually under martial law now.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
I anticipate we will have to call for martial law to protect against any insurgence or riots at week's end.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
Being in the service of the crown, your honor, he is amenable to martial law.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
Martial law has been declared, and everyone is going to get one less butter coupon.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
Martial law was in effect in the whole country.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Keats police have been absorbed under the martial law I declared fourteen months ago.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
In March 1960, the government declared a state of emergency and instituted martial law.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
Go in with tommyguns, kill a few men, put the rioters down, place Watts under martial law.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
Police in L.A. have practically instituted martial law in the inner city.
Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
Martial law, sit-ins at the UN, parades, rooftop parties, endless Internet chatter, and 24/7 coverage of the Arrival over every medium.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
Though he usually dressed in uniform, he occasionally wore Western suits and he called himself chief executive instead of chief martial law administrator.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

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