police force

• “How wonderfully knowledgeable the police force are,' said Alex admiringly.”

  Fictionaut: Twin Moons

• “The Nazis had slaughtered 60,000 Greek Jews, or so it said on the radio, and now her own people killed their brothers as if the Nazis had only been a police force whose departure had been eagerly awaited by the fratricides.”

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin

• “They had used the local police force to do their dirty work this time, maybe thinking that deadheads wouldn't trigger Rowan's exquisitely sensitive antennae for danger.”

  Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]

• “It is perhaps seven or eight miles across and largely composed of volcanic upheavals of rock: a republic, self-contained, self-controlled, self-supporting, with a tiny parliament and a tiny police force and a quite remarkably tiny conscience in regard to its obligations to the rest of society; but with a traditionally enormous Hereditary Grand Duke.”

  Tour de Force

• “He wondered if Baldy had gone to get the police, if there was a special police force for this.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Empty Family

• “We do not want the whole police force to know that Senator Simpson spent an hour with two arrested gipsies, do we?”

  The Beekeeper's Apprentice

• “The problem with that suggestion is, of course, that the United Nations is not constituted to maintain or wield an adequate supranational police force in the event that a nationstate commits an illegal or immoral act.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE DIFFERENT DRUM

• “The police force as a whole was divided into autonomous districts, like the Thames Valley Police, who solved crimes in their own area but might not take much notice outside.”

  Come To Grief

• “The police stepped in to rescue him, and then, remembering that police force had been used the year before, a Prague Party official went to the microphone to apologize and explain that too many people had crowded the first secretary.”

  1968 the Year that Rocked the World

• “In Haiti, after Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s election, I reported on a United Nations mission to coax a legitimate police force from the Tonton Macoutes, a band of soulless, blood-soaked thugs who stepped on the public neck while despotic lunatic Baby Doc Duvalier raped his country.”

  Simon & Schuster: MY EMPIRE OF DIRT

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