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- Though he usually dressed in uniform, he occasionally wore Western suits and he called himself chief executive instead of chief martial law administrator.† (source)
- Martial law being declared later today.† (source)
- From multiple Internet sources, suggestions that Obama will soon implement martial law in order to secure power for a third presidential term.† (source)
- Martial law, sit-ins at the UN, parades, rooftop parties, endless Internet chatter, and 24/7 coverage of the Arrival over every medium.† (source)
- It was like martial law had been declared: The smaller kids couldn't go anywhere without an escort, the older ones traveled in pairs, and Miss Peregrine had to know where everyone was at all times.† (source)
- Martial law has been declared, and everyone is going to get one less butter coupon.† (source)
- ") Certain elements of the martial law imposed since my arrival had inconvenienced the household: no longer, for instance, were the housemaids permitted to listen to Ten Ten WINS, the news station, while they worked ("No, no," said Etta the cook, with a warning glance at me, when one of the cleaners tried to turn the radio on) and in the mornings, the Times was taken immediately to Mr. Barbour and not left out for the rest of the family to read.† (source)
- The Keats police have been absorbed under the martial law I declared fourteen months ago.† (source)
- How could he not have known that staying in New Orleans, a city under something like martial law, would endanger him?† (source)
- Police in L.A. have practically instituted martial law in the inner city.† (source)
- In August of that year a new civil war, one of the many that had been devastating the country for over half a century, threatened to spread, and the government imposed martial law and a six o'clock curfew in the provinces along the Caribbean coast.† (source)
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- In March 1960, the government declared a state of emergency and instituted martial law.† (source)
- My own guess is that it's this business with the pope, even more than the martial law thing.† (source)
- It reminded me of some crankheads we busted in the twenties when martial law was declared.† (source)
- Pakistan now operated under martial law.† (source)
- The black-market came to an end at the very moment when the Presidential Palace was bombed, because speculators were threatened with martial law and execution by firing squad.† (source)
- Unable to control the protesters any longer, Diem's soldiers place the entire city of Hue under martial law.† (source)
- I anticipate we will have to call for martial law to protect against any insurgence or riots at week's end.† (source)
- After a long childhood with an unbenign father and four years at the Institute, I was looking forward to that day of release when I would no longer be subject to the fixed, irresistible tenets of martial law, that hour when I would be presented with my discharge papers and could walk without cadences for the first time.† (source)
- Someone tried to assassinate Korea's president and he declared martial law.† (source)
- In the devastated areas, and in those other areas where normal functions of government cannot be carried out, I hereby declare martial law, to be administered by the Army.† (source)
- Go in with tommyguns, kill a few men, put the rioters down, place Watts under martial law.† (source)
- Anyway, with martial law, we should only risk one of us going out.† (source)
- I guess we're under martial law now," said Silenus when the Colonel was gone.† (source)
- Martial law was in effect in the whole country.† (source)
- When that happens, they'll have to declare martial law.† (source)
- Without moving her head she said, "Randy, under martial law, can't you make your own rules?† (source)
- In any event, Dr. Juvenal Urbino alerted his colleagues and had the authorities warn the neighboring ports so that they could locate and quarantine the contaminated schooner, and he had to restrain the military commander of the city who wanted to declare martial law and initiate the therapeutic strategy of firing the cannon every quarter hour.† (source)
- Clogged highways, deserted airports, overrun emergency rooms, governments in lockdown, food and gas shortages, martial law in some places, lawlessness in others.† (source)
- Martial law enabled the army to assume the functions of arbitrator in the controversy, but no effort at conciliation was made.† (source)
- Four days had passed since Mike Orear had spilled his guts on CNN, since France had declared martial law, since Monique had returned with the magic elixir firmly in mind, since Thomas Hunter had been killed by a bullet to the forehead.† (source)
- Martial law continued with an eye to the necessity of taking emergency measures for the public disaster of the endless downpour, but the troops were confined to quarters.† (source)
- If martial law stops the riot, the result is a return to the old evil, no change of any significance.† (source)
- These officers will act in accordance with their best judgment, under the proclamation of martial law.† (source)
- We don't have a regular courthouse license, naturally, but I have fixed it up to make it legal under martial law.† (source)
- They had talked of the wedding, and the legal problems attending martial law, and the Admiral had helped him in framing Order No. 4.† (source)
- I appointed Lieutenant General George Hunneker Army Chief of Staff, and Director of Martial Law in the Zone of the Interior, which means within the forty-nine states.† (source)
- No. A company under martial law.† (source)
- ORDER NO. 1—TOWN OF FORT REPOSE In accordance with the proclamation of Mrs. Josephine Vanbruuker-Brown, Acting President of the United States, and the declaration of Martial Law, I am assuming command of the Town of Fort Repose and its environs.† (source)
- Georgia was virtually under martial law now.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- It was incidents of this sort that compelled the authorities to declare martial law and enforce the regulations deriving from it.† (source)
- In August 1861 the abolitionist General Fremont, sorely tried by guerrilla warfare in Missouri, declared martial law and proclaimed that all slaves of local owners resisting the United States where freemen.† (source)
- Since martial law had been declared and the guards might, from a certain angle, be regarded as on active service, they were awarded posthumously the military medal.† (source)
- There would be solace in Fanny's presence, knowing that she and Fanny both had lost husbands in the black days of martial law.† (source)
- Would it be so much we ourselves that would condemn as it would be martial law operating through us?† (source)
- Being in the service of the crown, your honor, he is amenable to martial law.† (source)
- But for us here acting not as casuists or moralists, it is a case practical, and under martial law practically to be dealt with.† (source)
- Stooping over, he kissed on the fair cheek his fellow-man, a felon in martial law, one who though on the confines of death he felt he could never convert to a dogma; nor for all that did he fear for his future.† (source)
- Ben Butler, in Virginia, quickly declared slave property contraband of war, and put the fugitives to work; while Fremont, in Missouri, declared the slaves free under martial law.† (source)
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