Sentence examples for efficient police state from inspiring English sources
The government, meanwhile, has tried to transform itself into a more efficient police state with efforts to professionalize the pro-government Basij militia, for example.
That episode crystallized an impression that had been forming during my trip through Iran: if it were an efficient police state, it might survive.
In reality, it is quite difficult for even an efficient police state to keep its policies a secret for long, because it needs to act to implement them and these actions reveal its intentions.
Iran experts say the security sweeps reveal a concerted effort by the leadership to transform the country into a more efficient police state while extending its crackdown from those involved in the protest and reform movements to anyone calling for change.
In its post-colonial days, Iraq was kept together by the brutally efficient police state run by Saddam Hussein.
For almost three decades in the 19th century, Paraguay was ruled by Dr. Gaspar Rodríguez Francia ("the Supreme One"), who turned the country into an efficient but deadly police state and sealed it off from the outside world.
The monarch was at the pinnacle of the state, but that state was relatively impoverished and weak, without a standing army, an efficient police force, or a highly developed, effective bureaucracy.
Chapman, B. Police State.
This was a police state".
He mentioned a police state.
