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Example sentences for "preserve order"

  • It then became the duty of the Civil Governor to preserve order, as far as he could, until the English occupation of the 14th.

  • In order to provide against an attack by the rebels, and also to preserve order in the town, Admiral Hewett, on the 6th, landed a party of bluejackets and Marines with Gatling guns.

  • The first great blunder in dealing with the strikers in Pittsburgh, was in the attempt to operate the road by the use of a military force, instead of using the troops to preserve order and to keep the peace.

  • The mayor was absent from the city, and the chief of police, Peter Cullen, was the only civil officer who did any thing to preserve order.

  • That night word came to us they were going to throw a train off the track above the iron company's store, and they wished us to be on hand and see that if that was done there would be a force there to preserve order.

  • Its task was merely to preserve order, protect the people and assist in bringing about an orderly administration of the government's affairs.

  • He issued a decree setting forth the duty of the soldiers to preserve order, protect property and defend themselves in all circumstances.

  • The papers published articles couched in general terms, warning all citizens to preserve order, and reminding them that the city's provisioning would be gravely disturbed by disorders.

  • The mutineers declared themselves satisfied, and promised to resume their duties, to obey orders and to preserve order in the city and board their ships.

  • He exhorted them to preserve order, and then went to Florence to urge the Tuscan Ministry to join their country to the Roman State.

  • Palffy, the Military Governor of Venice, appealed to Manin to preserve order; but Manin replied that he could only do so if a civic guard were granted, and if the soldiers were recalled to their barracks.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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