Sentence examples for urban force from inspiring English sources

Hogan-Howe said in January that he wanted the arrest rate from all stop and searches to increase from 6% – the lowest for an urban force – to 20%.

A former member of the Slovenian National Ballet, Ms. Sterle will present new and recent works that blend the natural beauty of her native Slovenia with the urban force of New York City, her adopted home.

For his part, Mr. Stewart -- who will earn an annual salary of $170,000 ,including benefits -- said he saw no reason for the head of a large urban force to be expected to perform daily police duties.

The police, on the other hand, had all the high-tech equipment of a modern urban force: riot shields, Kevlar vests and helmets, Heckler and Koch MP5 single-shot carbines, 9mm rifles, stun grenades, etc., etc. Plus large numbers, complete domination of nearby buildings and expert siege negotiators.

Born from a specific response to American racism during the 1930s and establishing itself primarily as a northern, urban force during the 50s and 60s, the Nation of Islam now has a strength in the US that it would be difficult to imagine a similar organisation possessing in any other country.

Too many urban forces do not seem to have noticed.

Even after the recent reductions, the department retains more officers per capita than most major urban forces.

The temperance movement itself changed during the 1920s; the fundamentalist and nativist groups assumed greater leadership, tending to drive away less hostile and urban forces.

In London, a black person was 3.2 times more likely to be stopped and searched than a white person, with slightly lower ratios in the large urban forces of the West Midlands (3.0), Greater Manchester (2.6) and South Yorkshire (2.1).

Plum Beach is the latest chapter in the decades-long saga of the city's lovers' lanes, where muggers, police crackdowns, wrecking balls and even a serial killer have conspired to foil young couples seeking a little privacy, and where those same couples, ever resilient (not to mention hormonal), have battled urban forces to create their own rendering of a small-town tradition.

As expected, PCCs overseeing the biggest urban forces tend to employ more people, but there are significant anomalies.