The military governed under martial law for 25 of its 52 years as an independent nation.

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In 1981, having become an activist for the Solidarity movement, he was briefly interned under martial law.

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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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Poland was then under martial law, and Lech Walesa was being held in an internment camp, so the story would be that the Nobel winner was in jail.

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This earlier series was made for Polish television in 1988, when the nation was still under martial law, and comprises ten hour-long films, each devoted to one of the Ten Commandments.

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Three years after imposing martial law under the banner of a New Society, he was president and prime minister of the Philippines and master of all the key institutions, except the Church.

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Neither should the West be under any illusions about the risks to its security interests should the mending of the Sino-Soviet rift, begun prior to martial law, continue under more hard-line communist leaders in Beijing.

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