How to Use martial law in a Sentence

martial law

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  • The government has imposed martial law throughout the city to stop the riots.
  • That evidence, and his notes suggesting martial law, gained no traction.
    — Stephen Montemayor, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Most are not anti-government but fear martial law or some rupture with democracy.
    — oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Why? Claude Joseph, the foreign minister and acting prime minister at that time, declared a state of siege and imposed martial law.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • White House aides pushed back strongly on the idea of invoking martial law, officials said, but the raw feelings from the meeting have since spilled into public view.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Flynn has publicly suggested Trump use martial law to send the military into battleground states to demand a second vote.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Perhaps Mr Xi will ride through Taipei streets still scorched by fire, stained with blood and emptied of ordinary Taiwanese by the diktats of martial law.
    — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Jade Helm 15 was ultimately run free of martial law, though the concern surrounding the wildfire of conspiracies lingered.
    — Alex Briseno, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2021
  • And with martial law, all men ages 18 to 60 were required to join the army.
    — Anna Conkling, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2022
  • All Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 must stay in the country per martial law.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • The area is now under martial law, but many workers have vowed not to give up.
    — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The lockdown was like martial law; people put up with it.
    — Stuart Emmrich, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Even Greene’s call for martial law likely is not enough.
    — Ronald Sullivan, The Conversation, 9 May 2022
  • There was talk of martial law happening and all these things.
    — Patrick Lyons, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2023
  • At the very beginning of March, a rumor spread that martial law was about to be declared.
    — Maxim Osipov, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
  • The strongman praised the martial law era and in some ways emulated it with his bloody six-year war on drugs.
    — Regine Cabato, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • Ukraine says adoptions will resume three months after the end of martial law.
    — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
  • He was arrested in the central province of Samar in 1972, the year martial law was declared in the Philippines.
    — Jes Aznar Jason Gutierrez, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The current state of martial law was expected to conclude on April 25.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Textbooks have glossed over the consequences of martial law.
    — New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • Her father stayed in Ukraine, where, under martial law, men of fighting age cannot leave the country.
    — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
  • At the start of the war, Ukraine imposed martial law, barring all males between ages 18 and 60 from exiting the country.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2022
  • With martial law having been declared in Ukraine, all able-bodied men ages 18 to 60 were required to stay and be available to join the army.
    — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Their split added to the turmoil that gripped the country after the end of martial law imposed by the Marcos dictatorship.
    — Camille Elemia, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The attack took place in an area of the city that is under martial law, and the court action appeared to be the first time the death sentence has been imposed under the junta’s rule.
    — Associated Press Staff, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • By the end of May, the government had enacted martial law to dispel the demonstrations.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Experts warn a form of martial law has also been imposed across Russia.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Gorman said her brother stayed in Kharkiv with his oldest son because of the martial law, while her brother's wife and youngest son fled to Germany.
    — Fox News, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The declaration put the military and the police in charge of the regions and instituted martial law in a bid to end the bloodshed.
    — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The massacre ended when the Oklahoma National Guard declared martial law on the afternoon of June 1st.
    — Kizzy Cox, Essence, 4 July 2024

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