Synonyms for martial law
mar·tial law

Princeton's WordNet

1. martial lawnoun

   the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law

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1. • Law
   • Military

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1. Rosalie Howerton:

   I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t trust my government, i don’t trust Obama. I think he is looking toward calling martial law to stop the next election from taking place.

2. Avril Haines:

   And the current trend increases the likelihood that President Russian President Vladimir Putin will turn to more drastic means, including imposing martial law, reorienting industrial production, or potentially escalatory military actions to free up the resources needed to achieve Russian President Vladimir Putin objectives as the conflict drags on, or if Russian President Vladimir Putin perceives The Russians is losing in Ukraine.

3. Edward Alsworth Ross:

   During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power...

4. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto:

   We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!” ― Zulfikar Ali Bhutto The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.” ― Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, bOOK.If I Am Assassinated

5. Thanawut Wichaidit:

   This law will replace martial law and control political protests which is an infringement on people's rights.