martial law
戒严令,戒严,戒严法,军法
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- : the law temporarily imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down or during wartime military operations.
- : the law imposed upon a defeated country or occupied territory by the military forces of the occupying power.
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Before the two weeks of martial law had ended, a grand jury indicted 14 men in connection with the destruction — but not for the lynching of Hughes.
Alleging threats of communist subversion and “insurgency,” Marcos instituted national martial law in 1972 that would last 14 years.
There was little doubt that we came within a couple minutes of martial law.
While the English translation is new, The Membranes was first published in 1995, just a few years after a decades-long period of martial law in Taiwan was lifted.
Under pressure from Moscow, the Polish government imposed martial law and cracked down on Solidarity.
Unless there is a court decision that changes our law, we are OK.
Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.
A few days later, Bush replied, “We will uphold the law in Florida.”
To those who agreed with him, Bush pledged that the law against same-sex marriage would remain intact.
In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models.
We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.
He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.
To Harrison and his wife there was no distinction between the executive and judicial branches of the law.
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
These schools became affiliated Universities, but never equalled the Law University in importance.