curfew
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Paul McCartney headlined opening night and played 50-plus minutes after curfew.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
Dewale, of Great Harwood in Lancashire, was also sentenced to 10 days' community work, given a four-year football banning order, a three-month curfew, and fined £239 at Blackburn Magistrates' Court.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
At a meeting with police earlier, Noboa announced a curfew from March 15 to 30 in Ecuador's four most violent provinces: Guayas, Los Rios, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas and El Oro.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
Authorities have imposed a late-night curfew, which will remain in place until Wednesday in Gilgit and Skardu, where the army has been deployed on the streets.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
For the next three days Cato was at the Haarlem police station from early morning until curfew, pestering Dutch and Germans alike to let her see her husband.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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