"police" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was a police action, not an act of war.
- The social service workers are the cover for police action.
- Here, at last, is someone who knows the difference between a police action and a war.
- They get off, so police action is mostly a lost cause.
- "They think they're going in for a police action and it turns out to be war."
- "He had not done anything that required any police action."
- Officials of the two companies said they supported the police action.
- Since 1979 strikes have often been met by police action.
- Within five days the "police action", actually a military operation, was all but over.
- Police action is a term for the use of military forces without declaring war.
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