📚 noun • entry_id 61366
state of siege
Meanings (ES + gloss)
estado de sitio
An exceptional legal condition in which constitutional limits on the powers of the government are suspended, usually owing to military necessity and implying martial law.
As soon as Nicaragua entered the war, Somoza declared a state of siege that remained in effect for four years.
Several gentlemen of authority of the city of Belfast actually waited upon the Government and requested them not only to abolish the local police force but to proclaim a state of s…
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