Sentence examples for policed rather than from inspiring English sources
His take on language was that it is something to be policed rather than observed, a direct hit on what the science of language is all about.
They'll probably be even less fun in Northern Ireland in a few days' time, when a meeting between some of the world's most powerful people needs to be policed, rather than some nonviolent activists waving placards around and having discussions in empty buildings.
They look at [the policed] as a potential threat rather than a client.
Perhaps, in some way, the suburbs encapsulate the British identity in a way that the cities don't any more – small dramas playing out beyond the stations without barriers, rather than the heavily policed, heavily funded bourgeois ghettos of the inner cities.
The Inter City Firm were one of the first "casuals", so called because they avoided police supervision by not wearing football-related clothing and travelled to away matches on regular InterCity trains, rather than on the cheap and more tightly policed "football special" charter trains.
I can't say for sure, but he's just as likely to have picked it up from a skip or ripped it off a pallet rather than arriving tooled up, because walking around a heavily policed area with an offensive weapon is not something people tend to do at protests in the UK.
Rather than giving up, immigrants converged on the border's thinly-policed midsection, braving sun and snakes on long hikes through the desert.
So in 2011, rather than looking at embedded structural issues, including the way black communities are policed – especially in the light of the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham – the response was to hand out massive penalties to those convicted, in order to dissuade anyone else from taking to the streets in future protests.
Rather than going stiff".
