Word: martially
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...began with a flurry of announcements. He decreed, for example, that all members of the national football team would go on the government payroll, and that the date of the coup, April 12, would thenceforth be known as National Redemption Day. At week's end he imposed martial law. Several times a day he roared out of the executive mansion in his Mercedes limousine to visit schools, markets and other gathering places. Wherever he went, thousands of chanting women-who, like Doe, belong to Liberia's long oppressed country people -romped and shouted in the streets...
...party regime, human rights activists predicted that the hearing would be a travesty of justice. Leading U.S. law professors, scholars and writers fired off protests and pleas for leniency to Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark denounced the "brutal use of martial...
...charges against the defendants stem from their association with Formosa, a now banned magazine that had called for representative elections, free speech and an end to martial law, which was imposed in 1948 as an anti-Communist measure. Moreover, Formosa had been sympathetic to the aspirations of native Taiwanese who desire a greater voice in the island's government, which has been dominated for three decades by mainland Chinese in the Kuomintang Party...
...martial law: Curfews must go; they are unnecessary now. The war has come to an end. We are a country at peace. We don't need martial law. We don't need unnecessary poli tical arrests. Those who have been arrested must now be released. We are beginning a completely new chapter with the hope that there will not be any victimization of anybody for political reasons. We will allow as much freedom of political organization as possible. Why shouldn't opposition parties continue to campaign as they campaigned during the elections...
...presence of females on the force by dealing with them as natural subordinates -and the females accept the situation. A policeman talks to a policewoman in a teasing kind of banter, as if the female cop were a tomboyish kid sister. Because women cops were not trained in the martial arts or encouraged to handle tough assignments, they often showed a lack of confidence, and sometimes deliberately drove slowly to a potentially violent call. Says Remmington: "Either the view of females as weaker or the view and self-image of American police as symbols of physical power will have...