Sentences with phrase «possibility of a police state»

Of course, attitudes can become self - fulfilling prophecies; nonetheless, one does not have to prove the frightening possibility of a police state by inductive logic alone.

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Liberalism put hope largely in the possibility of creating the good state in which force would be either unnecessary, or would function only as police power under law.

I don't really wish to compare the Labour party to a police state but it does seem to share a similar paranoia, accusing innocent people in unspecified ways of unspecified offences and offering no explanation or possibility of appeal.

Officials insist on calling her «Daniel» and the police think that Orlando got his wounds from Marina, but scrupulously take into account the possibility that she may have been defending herself — like many another trans woman being abused — so she has to report for a medical examination, in an excruciatingly ambiguous state of victim or assailant.

DCTA is working to see if there would be a possibility of waiving the state laws and district polices and maintaining the negotiated master agreement.