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Anyway, with martial law, we should only risk one of us going out.† (source)
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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)
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From multiple Internet sources, suggestions that Obama will soon implement martial law in order to secure power for a third presidential term.† (source)
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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)
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Martial law, sit-ins at the UN, parades, rooftop parties, endless Internet chatter, and 24/7 coverage of the Arrival over every medium.† (source)
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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)
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The Keats police have been absorbed under the martial law I declared fourteen months ago.† (source)
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Martial law has been declared, and everyone is going to get one less butter coupon.† (source)
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My own guess is that it's this business with the pope, even more than the martial law thing.† (source)
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Police in L.A. have practically instituted martial law in the inner city.† (source)
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It reminded me of some crankheads we busted in the twenties when martial law was declared.† (source)
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Martial law was in effect in the whole country.† (source)
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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)
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How could he not have known that staying in New Orleans, a city under something like martial law, would endanger him?† (source)
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Unable to control the protesters any longer, Diem's soldiers place the entire city of Hue under martial law.† (source)
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In March 1960, the government declared a state of emergency and instituted martial law.† (source)
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