Zimbabwe needed to act decisively to improve its finances and to restore law and order, he said.

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And we will do whatever it takes to restore law and order and to rebuild our communities.

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Zimbabwe's trade union movement says it has reduced to just one day a general strike called to press the government to restore law and order.

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He appealed to Kenya's political leaders to restore law and order.

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The incident came in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the authorities vowed to restore security in the city following a breakdown of law and order.

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When they felt this way about personal safety in the 1970s and '80s, their votes for "law and order" candidates were an attempt to restore balance.

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According to Fred Siegel, a New York historian, Mr Giuliani needed to be confrontational at first, because nobody believed he could restore law and order in New York.

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