Sentence examples for call for martial from inspiring English sources

Their battles in the 200,000-person city of Marawi over the past week led Duterte to call for martial law all across all of surrounding Mindanao for at least 60 days.

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the call for martial law as a "provocation" meant to boost Poroshenko's slumping approval ratings ahead of the presidential election in March.

After the military government decided last month to impeach the ousted prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, on corruption charges, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Daniel R. Russel used a speech at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University to criticize the military dictatorship for "significant restraints on freedoms" and call for martial law to be lifted.

Talk-radio analysts here are calling for martial law.

Baghdad's city council has called for martial law to be declared in the capital for six months.

Devlet Bahceli, leader of the nationalist opposition party, has called for martial law to be reimposed in the south-east.

Ultra-royalists are claiming it is under attack, and calling for martial law so that troops can finish the job.

On April 18th leaders of the PAD called for martial law and gave the government a week to end the protests or, they said, they would order their own people back on to the streets.

Responding to the incident Monday, Poroshenko called for martial law to be implemented in 10 regions of Ukraine deemed at risk of Russian aggression.

We can only hope that the few undecided saw the difference between bluster and bigotry and true competence - and that we never have to face that self-regarding bigot as Commander-in-Chief, calling for martial law because something or someone offended his all too delicate sensibilities.

The initial response among security officials in Kiev to Turchynov's call for a martial law debate was that the step would be considered only after Poroshenko has been sworn in as head of state.