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 #2 (permalink) Mon Nov 19, 2007 19:31 pm proclaim a martial law |
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Hi Alex
I wouldn't use an article at all:
"... proclaimed martial law in..."
However, you could possibly say this, for example:
"... proclaimed a state of martial law in..."
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Nov 19, 2007 19:58 pm proclaim a martial law |
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| Thank you very much, Amy ! |
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| #4 (permalink) Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:13 pm proclaim a martial law |
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Did they really proclaim martial law in LA, or is this from a science fiction novel?
In my city they proclaim something like martial law for teenagers every year for about a week before Halloween. They don't call it that, but that's more or less what it is. There was also martial law for a couple of weeks in the late 1960s, but they called it "a state of emergency". |
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| #5 (permalink) Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:25 pm proclaim a martial law |
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I have no idea, I made up that sentence irrespective of LA (or whatever else city).
So don't worry, you still may travel to LA with no risk of being shot :) |
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| #6 (permalink) Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:37 pm proclaim a martial law |
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| lost_soul wrote: |
I have no idea, I made up that sentence irrespective of LA (or whatever else city).
So don't worry, you still may travel to LA with no risk of being shot :) |
No, you have a BIG risk of being shot in LA. Hollywood likes to use my city in films as the big hell hole of crime, but at least when there's a shooting here, it's usually between disputants who know each other -- drug dealers, etc. LA has a lot of what they call "drive-by shootings", where gang members drive past a group of people and spray the whole crowd just to get one guy. Brrrrr! |
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