garrison state
Example Sentences
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“Most of this country is invested in perpetuating the nervous cease-fire of de facto segregation, with its ‘garrison state’ of occupied ghettos that are carefully kept out of sight and mind.”
From Salon
That opens up all kinds of possibilities — that North Korea will no longer be a besieged garrison state but move on a more normal trajectory as an East Asian country.”
From Washington Post
“To what extent are we going to turn ourselves into a garrison state and embrace the airportization of the American life?”
From Washington Post
In the intervening years Eritrea has remained a garrison state.
From Economist
We’ve seen this past week how passionately Iranians want the latter, not the former — as they denounced their impoverished garrison state and demanded a prosperous, modern future.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
