Sentences with phrase «stricken measures adopted»

«In those days, it wouldn't have been especially surprising if the government had added an offence of being in wilful possession of an Irish accent within designated areas of the Home Counties to the panoply of absurd, panic - stricken measures adopted in the wake of terrorist violence,» he wrote for Proof, the new magazine of the Justice Gap which has as its theme «justice in a time of moral panic».

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Instead of producing a series of measures in a panic - stricken way, as the Government have done in recent months, would it not have been better if they had speedily adopted our policy of a # 50 billion loan guarantee scheme for businesses of all sizes, and had shown some competence in getting it into practice at the speed required?
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