These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'martial law.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Matt Gardner, Forbes, 26 June 2022 See More 2022 The 33rd declared martial law, with reports of atrocities against civilians members of the unit then staged a coup d’etat against Konrad, but lost. 2022 The 91-year-old noted that the venue had been a detention center for political dissidents during Taiwan’s long years of martial law. Los Angeles Times, Meanwhile, Amnesty International accused Marcos and his running mate of avoiding discussing human rights violations, including those committed under martial law and during President Duterte's bloody war on drugs.įox News, With a culture forged by eras of Indigenous people, hundreds of years of Chinese immigration, Japanese colonial occupation, and a harsh period of martial law, Taiwan is not monolithic.Īmy Chang Chien,, 5 Aug. New York Times, 17 June 2022 Eastman was responding to a suggestion that Trump could declare martial law and force a re-vote overseen by the military.īryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022 Growing up under martial law, Huang remembers learning about her Chinese identity and the greatness of the Chinese nation in school. 2022 Under martial law, opposition television stations were excluded from a national cable system.
Send us feedback.Recent Examples on the Web With a culture forged by eras of Indigenous people, hundreds of years of Chinese immigration, Japanese colonial occupation and a harsh period of martial law, Taiwan is not monolithic. Some confuse martial law (and marshall law) with The Marshall Plan, which was a recovery program for European countries in the wake of World War Two, but also had an anti-communist. 2022 The 91-year-old noted that the venue had been a detention center for political dissidents during Taiwan’s long years of martial law. Martial law is sometimes mistakenly pronounced or spelled as marhsall law which sounds vaguely like some kind of old west version of martial law. Recent Examples on the Web With a culture forged by eras of Indigenous people, hundreds of years of Chinese immigration, Japanese colonial occupation and a harsh period of martial law, Taiwan is not monolithic.