| A common method for totalitarian regimes to maintain control is to militarize society and set it on a constant war footing. |
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| Unless works were initiated on a war footing, epidemic might break out in waterlogged areas, he warned. |
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| Maybe there never was, but at least there used to be the formality of moving from a peace to a war footing. |
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| Since ISIS stormed the city of Mosul bordering Iraqi Kurdistan last week, the Kurds have been on a war footing. |
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| Climate scientists have been on a war footing for so long that they are no longer as open to criticism as they should be. |
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| Alas, less than three years later, there were more people on a war footing than during any operation after the Second World War. |
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| Although war had not yet been declared, this placed the Canadian military on a war footing and initiated mobilization. |
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| It struggled to get by, remaining on a virtually perpetual war footing because no one was safe from the Iroquois. |
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| After the Government was recently accused of being unresponsive, the chief minister called a meeting of industry captains and promised to address all issues on a war footing. |
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| But what of suggestions that Mr Putin has put the Russian economy on a war footing? |
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| At any rate, the Fourth is on a war footing. |
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| There, Colborne ordered the militia of the counties of Glengarry and Stormont in eastern Upper Canada to join him, placed the garrison on a war footing and issued an order to mobilize the volunteers. |
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| No one has publicly accused the security forces, but the ease with which the killers eluded the investigations of an army on a war footing has raised questions. |
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| Moscow and Saint Petersburg are not on a war footing. |
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| This lurch by the American superpower, on the pretext of fighting terrorism, towards a permanent war footing poses an intolerable threat to the entire planet. |
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| They have also had enough of the dominance of Tamil Tiger commanders who run a society constantly on a war footing. |
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| Little did I know that the government were on a war footing and had completed a draft of a Queen's Speech to calm us all in the event of nuclear warfare. |
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| Additional Chief Secretary directed WASA, PHA and Solid Waste Management officers to implement action plan of dewatering and removal of solid waste on war footing basis. |
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