garrison state
Example Sentences
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In the intervening years Eritrea has remained a garrison state.
From Economist ● Aug. 4, 2018
Like Johnson, Rockefeller may have embraced the misconception that a free society could and should perform in peacetime the sort of prodigies that the United States accomplished in 1941-1945 as a garrison state.
From Washington Post
They don't take long to mutter about living in a garrison state.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nader and other critics worry about the unlikely prospect that such security measures would turn the U.S. into a "garrison state," where civil liberties are suppressed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of becoming a garrison state, the U.S. could tell itself�for the moment, at least �that it had never had it so good.
From Time Magazine Archive
