Sentence examples for were policed from inspiring English sources
noun
A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.
Even folk practices, based on legend, were policed and suppressed.
Perhaps if physicians were policed by their peers there would be less malpractice and fewer lawsuits.
Black societies were policed and taxed more effectively, and the new constitution excluded blacks from political power.
"In the Victorian age women were policed over their sexuality; by the 1960s sex was OK, so they had to find something else to police you about".
It might be interesting to learn that communications were policed by people who understood little about the technology they were patrolling.
The "dogs" were policed by a higher prefectorial elite of slightly older boys, to whom the juniors bowed with chilling deference.
The Everton fans were policing themselves.
It seems we respond to being policed.
Those kinds of hits can be policed.
Virtual entities can be policed to avoid misbehavior and unfairness.
