Sentence examples for mere police from inspiring English sources

The bill is not a mere police court measure.

The thing so authorized is no mere police regulation.

Mere police incompetence, or high-placed political friends?

However, this Court has “held repeatedly that mere police questioning does not constitute a seizure.” Florida v. Bostick, 501 U.S. 429, 434.

Certainly it will not be claimed that the United States have the power or are required to do mere police duly in the States.

Whatever restraints were put upon him were mere police regulations to control his conduct in the business, and not to exclude him therefrom.

But with winter setting in, and armed men in abundance ready to work mischief, it will not be easy to bring in the 50,000 tonnes a month of food that the UN thinks necessary.Peacekeeping and mere policing require organisation from the ground up; more exactly, from the top down.

The bombing was averted by mere hours, the police said in 1997 after seizing an embittered Palestinian man.

This is what a coverup looks like — a gloss of bureaucratic folderol and inertia that impedes progress on a case whose complexity involves not the events themselves but the mere fact that police officers, rather than civilians, pulled the trigger.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest After that, deterred by the enormous queue at Barrio, I went to Tuxedo Cat, where a mere seven uniformed police turned up at about midnight, presumably in search of liquor license violations.

What is often called, with offensive political intent, black-on-black violence is usually a call for mere repression send the police into black communities, arrest and incarcerate, and then expect the residents to thank them.