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Drawn truncheons had to be employed against the demonstrators to ensure that the attack would not be renewed.

Under the title "adversary propaganda themes", the document lists what it calls "examples of potential propaganda themes that could be employed against UAV operations".

Darren Dopp, the attorney general's spokesman, pointed out that there are other sanctions that could be employed against those who reveal inside information.

The war power, he believed, is "positively recognized by the Constitution … [and] this law might be employed against Slavery, without impediment from States Rights".

But when it was pointed out that some in Israel believe the same strategy might be employed against Iran's nuclear sites, he said, "Well, not right now it wouldn't be a very good idea".

Encouraged by this success, the Qingliu party insisted that a similar militancy be employed against the French, who were encroaching on what is now Vietnam, at the time China's largest tributary state in the south.

These soldiers, who have been employed against Communist guerillas there, are battle-hardened veterans of jungle fighting.

The chart said that in a briefing on Sept. 4, 2002, attended by Ms. Pelosi, the interrogation methods that "had been employed" against a prisoner, Abu Zubaydah, were described.

The entire apparatus of the surveillance state, as revealed by whistleblowers like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, was employed against its own citizens by a fearful government.

Literary polemics of a high order were employed against the cultural imperialism of the French in Gotthold Lessing's Hamburgische Dramaturgie (1767 69; Hamburg Dramaturgy).

In the nineteen-eighties, the disease became a curiosity for scientists, because of a new drug that was being employed against it, one whose effects mirror those of AG-221.