There is nothing like decades of martial law to make a community long for the good times.
But his opponents said he was simply imposing martial law to maintain his grip on power.
Police say 700 officers have been injured in riots since martial law was lifted, Reuters reports.
Another general, Chun Doo-hwan, imposed martial law as he moved to take over the presidency.
What makes Martial Law distinct, though, are its intricate, speed-of-light action sequences and its humor.
The military governed under martial law for 25 of its 52 years as an independent nation.
Nothing about our recent military excursions has inspired us to submit to martial law and rightly so.
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But we called for martial law when we realized that the looting was getting out of control.
He said he would restore true democracy, but all he has done was twice impose martial law.
In 1981, having become an activist for the Solidarity movement, he was briefly interned under martial law.
Others say that the removal of the president's extraordinary powers makes a return to martial law more likely.
Two years later, the same period was selected to implement the Soviet-sponsored imposition of martial law in Poland.
Despite the lifting of martial law in May, after a year of fighting against separatists, military operations continue.
It depicts a child's-eye view of shortages, strikes and martial law that cracked down on the Solidarity trade union.
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The medics and 28 of their colleagues were arrested in April 2011 when the country was under martial law.
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Martial law is only a way to restore law and order, he said.
For this, unlike the much more draconian declaration of martial law, she had no need to seek congressional approval.
Suharto, in Egypt at the time, would have had to declare martial law.
But unlike some, he did not leave the party, either then or after martial law was imposed in 1981.
King Hassan, they say, sought to contain such movements by force, sometimes imposing martial law and banning political parties.
As party chief in Tibet he imposed martial law in 1989 and organised the brutal suppression of anti-Chinese unrest.
Previous governments have often responded with martial law, but not, hitherto, Mr Banzer's.
Zimbabwe is moving towards martial law as its economy collapses, according to a report released this week by an independent organization.
The opposition say more than 45 people have been killed in demonstrations since June 2011, when the government lifted martial law.
Then beginning in April, 2011 doctors and nurses were arrested in a series of night raids after the introduction of martial law.
The anti-Ahmadiyya movement became violent and led to the imposition of martial law in Lahore and adjoining areas of Punjab in 1953.
But what could be better than a constitutional crisis, created by vain and feuding civilians, to justify a spell of martial law?
Martial Law concerns Samo Law, a detective from Shanghai played by Hung, who has been assigned to the Los Angeles police department.
Now the actor-turned-director has turned actor again, starring in Martial Law, a new drama that lights up Saturday evenings on the CBS network.
Though martial law was lifted in Aceh in May, having been imposed a year earlier, the separatist Free Aceh Movement is still active.
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