A totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens' activities.
警察国家，极权国家
Example sentencesExamples
It has become a police state where we haven't got any human rights.
Even dictatorships and police states have fewer citizens behind bars.
This is supposed to be a democracy not a dictatorship: deploying the police and the regiment to frighten and intimidate citizens are strategies utilised by most dictatorship and police states.
The majority of the ‘western’ nations here are patriarchal police states.
Smokers are being treated like lepers, the new outcasts in a health police state gone out of control.
Never shall we allow a conglomerated media or a fascist police state to control our minds and our way of life.
There have been decades of experience here of police states - both fascist and Stalinist.
All attempts by socialists to change that fact have been abject failures, ending in Soviet police states, or fascist victory or a sterile capitalism where workers learn to hug their chains.
Its another step towards a police state where control is active.
Wouldn't a police state be a timocracy as defined by Plato?
In their political systems, they created police states, one-party systems led by a charismatic dictator.
In the name of the so-called ‘war on terror’ the framework of a police state is being put in place.
Bit by bit this government is building a police state, and it must be stopped.
The main aim of the speech was to justify the growing accumulation of private wealth and the growth of an authoritarian police state.
By the looks of things you are going to be a police state soon.
We certainly do not need another front man for imperialist aggression around the world and a police state at home.
On the other hand, cooperation with corrupt law enforcement organizations - or with police forces from police states - compromises our own law enforcement process.
The practice of detaining people in the streets and busting into their homes and workplaces to check on their identification is common in police states.
No, the last dictatorships in the United States, which were the police states of Mississippi and Alabama, were taken down through peaceful protest that spurred legislation.
Politically, they functioned as police states, with an absence of elementary democratic rights.
Definition of police state in US English:
police state
nounpəˈlēs ˈstātpəˈlis ˈsteɪt
A totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens' activities.
警察国家，极权国家
Example sentencesExamples
We certainly do not need another front man for imperialist aggression around the world and a police state at home.
Bit by bit this government is building a police state, and it must be stopped.
There have been decades of experience here of police states - both fascist and Stalinist.
Smokers are being treated like lepers, the new outcasts in a health police state gone out of control.
Wouldn't a police state be a timocracy as defined by Plato?
On the other hand, cooperation with corrupt law enforcement organizations - or with police forces from police states - compromises our own law enforcement process.
Never shall we allow a conglomerated media or a fascist police state to control our minds and our way of life.
The main aim of the speech was to justify the growing accumulation of private wealth and the growth of an authoritarian police state.
This is supposed to be a democracy not a dictatorship: deploying the police and the regiment to frighten and intimidate citizens are strategies utilised by most dictatorship and police states.
Even dictatorships and police states have fewer citizens behind bars.
In their political systems, they created police states, one-party systems led by a charismatic dictator.
Its another step towards a police state where control is active.
In the name of the so-called ‘war on terror’ the framework of a police state is being put in place.
All attempts by socialists to change that fact have been abject failures, ending in Soviet police states, or fascist victory or a sterile capitalism where workers learn to hug their chains.
By the looks of things you are going to be a police state soon.
The majority of the ‘western’ nations here are patriarchal police states.
It has become a police state where we haven't got any human rights.
The practice of detaining people in the streets and busting into their homes and workplaces to check on their identification is common in police states.
Politically, they functioned as police states, with an absence of elementary democratic rights.
No, the last dictatorships in the United States, which were the police states of Mississippi and Alabama, were taken down through peaceful protest that spurred legislation.