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martial

(= soldierly) (of persons) befitting a warrior a military bearing of or relating to the armed forces martial law (= warlike) suggesting war or military life

Martial

Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC)

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Simple sentences

Martial arts have their limits. You just have to look at Bruce Lee. He was the strongest but he couldn't help dying.
Mary thinks martial arts are silly.
If sex were a martial art, I would have a black belt.
Tom is a martial artist.
Tom practices martial arts.
Karate is a Japanese martial art.
Martial arts are not just about fighting. They're also about becoming a better person.
The President suspended the constitution and imposed martial law.
His martial arts prowess has already reached a level of sublime perfection.
For many years, the abbey was turned into a fortress, happily joining in itself martial and religious architecture.
I love martial arts!
Sumo is a Japanese martial art.
I don't know any martial arts.
Tom is a martial arts expert.
Judo is a Japanese martial art.

Movie subtitles

Make laws and see they're obeyed, if we have to have martial law to do it.
Martial. I was just gonna apply for a job.
What's all the trouble, Martial?
Well Martial, I guess you got me. but I was not mixed up with that gang.I was trying to help you. -You darn fool..
Well, why weren't these used in the Esterhazy court-martial?
A court-martial has recently, by order dared to acquit one Esterhazy, a supreme slap at all truth, all justice.
I accuse the first court-martial of violating all human rights in condemning a prisoner on testimony kept secret from him.
And finally I accuse the Esterhazy court-martial of covering up this illegality by order, thus, in turn.
The defense will restrict itself to the single fact that Zola accused the court-martial of acquitting Esterhazy by order of the high command.
I cannot tolerate in silence these accusations that the law was violated by court-martial officers who shed their blood on the battlefields of France while others stab her in the back.
Corporal, hold these men for court-martial.
You can tell your story to a court-martial.
Suppose l send them to Carlisle for court-martial, what will you do about it?
They're planning to take you back to the fort and court-martial you.
Arrange a court martial.
Sentence of court-martial, two dozen lashes at each ship.
A court-martial in England will decide that.
A court-martial will decide that!
What's romance to a court-martial? Lmpersonating an officer is serious.
Is it to get a court-martial?
I will decide whether I will answer you with pistols or a general court-martial.
Call me a psycho, court-martial me.
A court martial might have considered your action irresponsible.
The city's under martial law.
So, to put it briefly, the court-martial will not take place.
I want court-martial charges prepared on Lieutenant Carstairs: leaving his position against orders and under fire.
I have here court-martial papers on Lieutenant Carstairs signed by you.
What's you style of martial arts?
Metropolis is under martial law in the name of Duke Red.
Jean! you will wind up before a court martial.
Stop it, Chris! They can court-martial you!
The police are looking for a martial arts instructor.
I believe he wants the winners to become martial arts instructors for the police officers.
Martial law! Do you understand?
Martial Law!
And, President Romyre hopeless in forming a fourth government suspended the Constitution and called upon the army to establish martial law.
Sergeant, prepare court-martial papers. Insubordinationto a non-commissioned officer.
Any word on Maggio's court-martial yet?
My only regret is we have to keep you in uniformtill a court-martial is concluded.
If there were any wayto avoid a court-martial, sir.

News and current affairs

The French at first responded with orthodox measures - more police, curfews, martial law, etc. - but the insurgency spread amid growing atrocities by both sides.
Here, at long last, was Poland's long-awaited popular uprising, revenge for December 1980, when Jaruzelski declared martial law, banned Solidarity, and threw its leaders in jail.
If Pakistan's history is any indicator, his decision to impose martial law may prove to be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back.
A wave of strikes in May and August of 1988 brought home to Poland's politburo that the strategy of repression they had pursued since the introduction of martial law in 1981 was a failure.
Americans may not want their soldiers and military hardware in dozens, if not hundreds, of places around the world, but they accept a president who offers simple - often martial - certainties.
Either the military ran various countries, and gorged itself with hardware and troop increases, or weak civilian governments, terrified of military coups or blackmail, placated their armed forces with all sorts of unnecessary martial goodies.
There is another reason to jettison the martial vocabulary.
The federal court ruled that under the Geneva Conventions, Hamdan, as a prisoner of war, was entitled to a court hearing that followed the same procedures as one judging soldiers of the detaining power, that is, an American court martial.
Likewise, during China's Cultural Revolution, the imposition of martial law prevented attempts by rival factions to seize nuclear facilities in Xinjiang and Qinghai.
After a recent martial-arts match between an American and a Russian, Putin, a judo enthusiast, stepped into the ring to congratulate the Russian victor, a member of his United Russia party.
NEW YORK - Twenty-four years ago this month, Soviet hardliners, desperate to stop the country's nascent democratic transition, arrested Mikhail Gorbachev and declared martial law.
Most significantly, in the face of martial law and political assassination, Pakistanis have not given up their dream of democracy.
Hu, a hydrologist by training, owes his swift rise in the Communist Party hierarchy to the brutal martial-law crackdown he carried out in Tibet in 1989.
The other thing both films share is a fascination with mythical stories, the Book of Job in Leviathan, and martial-arts fiction in A Touch of Sin.
After many years of conflicts, with the memories of the martial law of 1981 still fresh in the minds of most Poles, a policy of national reconciliation was a crucial element of our program.
This infant democracy was harshly interrupted when martial law was imposed in December 1981, with Solidarity outlawed and dissidents arrested.

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