Sentence examples for has declared martial from inspiring English sources

The King of Bahrain has declared martial law, giving the military authority to end pro-democracy protests with the backing of 2,000 troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Thailand's army has declared martial law "to keep law and order" after six months of violent unrest and anti-government demonstrations and one day after the country's caretaker prime minister refused to step down.

In response, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has declared martial law over the entire southern island of Mindanao, where Marawi is located, and warned it could be applied to the rest of the country in a bid to stop the spread of radical Islam.

By the time he and his friends returned to Beijing in mid-1972, Marcos had declared martial law, making their repatriation even riskier.

President Rodrigo Duterte had declared martial law across the southern third of the country – where Marawi city is located – and warned on Wednesday that he may expand it nationwide.

Defending his record in East Timor, the general said he had sent extra troops to maintain security, had arranged for rival groups to sign peace treaties and had declared martial law when the situation worsened.

The separatists — who have felt their cause jeopardized by internal divisions, waning support from Moscow and a decision by industrial magnate Rinat Akhmetov to throw his financial might to the side of unity — had declared martial law and demanded that Ukrainian troops leave.

Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet and founder of the church, was killed by a mob in 1844, but only after he had declared martial law in Nauvoo, Ill., and ordered his followers to smash the printing press of a publication that had reported on polygamy among church leaders.

The commander of the Fijian armed forces, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, who has declared the nation to be under martial law and imposed a nighttime curfew here, said he was willing to meet both of those demands; on Monday he described the Constitution as a "blank page," waiting to be rewritten yet again.

The national government had just declared martial law.

Unlike their response to a big outbreak of anti-Chinese unrest in 1989, this time they have not declared martial law, nor even announced any curfew or measures to expel foreigners (some are being told by their Chinese travel agencies to leave, however).