NOUN
- the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law
How To Use martial law In A Sentence
- Florin dismissed any notion of martial law-like conditions prevailing.
- After all, isn't martial law the brand of democracy he has advocated for the country after the transfer of sovereignty?
- A violent conquest would be followed by a prolonged period of martial law before the successful imposition of the English law became practicable.
- Instead he is talking of changing legislation to allow the imposition of martial law.
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- And twenty million resident aliens live suddenly subject to the exceedingly broad terms of a new martial law.
- The added revenue can be invested in new schools or health-care clinics in areas where education and medicine are scarce; it can subsidize short-term make-work projects to appease the angry unemployed or patronage networks that control dissent at the local level; it can finance the construction of better roads and bridges to open internal trade; it can bankroll the imposition of martial law. The J Curve
- Marseilles is taken, and put under martial law: lo, at Marseilles, what one besmutted red-bearded corn-ear is this which they cut; -- one gross Man, we mean, with copper-studded face; plenteous beard, or beard-stubble, of a tile-colour? The French Revolution
- Qiao Shi, the intelligence chief who had abstained in the martial law vote earlier, endorsed an immediate army crackdown.
- The martial law status was imposed on troubled Aceh on May 19 for a six-month period and was extended for another six months on Nov.19.
