Sentences with phrase «of civil order»

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White South Africans, even during the recent years of increasing township violence and repressive emergency measure, present themselves to the world as the embattled custodians of civil order in a continent notorious for whimsical massacres.

From this conjunction grew the idea of citizen, and from it our modern idea of the civil order as a stratum of being in which all the members of a state participate.

After gorging silly, from the ceaseless milk of the civil order, the prodigal, in cloud seven, now dreams military rule!

He commended the military for the restoration of civil order in the liberated communities.

Where the public nature of the defiance of a civil order brings the administration of justice into scorn, the offence is a criminal contempt.»

Due process and jury trial — threatened by cost; complexity; repeated attempts to reduce the number of jury trials; a succession of civil orders with effectively criminal sanctions; and proposals for coercive powers under mental health legislation.

It will only produce more violence, riots, and the breakdown of civil order.

Think of the quotidian «underenforcement» of constitutional provisions (or adminsitartive or criminal provisions) on the one hand and the breakdown of civil order and civil war on the other.