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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But if police safety is what we want, it seems that is most easily achieved in a police state .
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Here, in the regressive, infantile wish for the perfect parent of early childhood lies the germ of the police state .
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Others warned against any attempt to set up a police state .
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Public help for the police in a police state is a rare luxury.
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The discipline of a police state was what he had grown up with, what suited his talents best.
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The rule of the Shoguns was feasible, of course, only under strict discipline and what amounted to a police state .