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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Martial law is only a way to restore law and order, he said.

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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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But the reason was plain: officialdom had taken to force, hoping, as it saw things, to restore legitimate law and order or, as the villagers saw them, to destroy legitimate freedoms.

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It is assumed that South Korean troops would rush in to provide humanitarian help and restore law and order, but it is not clear how they would deal with factional fighting, or with floods of North Koreans heading south.

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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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