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- noun obsolete A constabulary.
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- noun obsolete A
constabulary .
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Examples
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As I write this, the constabulatory powers-that-be in Aspen are about to hold a press conference announcing that George Aldrich, a ski lift operator, is the dead body found Monday night beneath the Maroon Creek Bridge.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Death Becomes Aspen Michael Conniff 2010
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As I write this, the constabulatory powers-that-be in Aspen are about to hold a press conference announcing that George Aldrich, a ski lift operator, is the dead body found Monday night beneath the Maroon Creek Bridge.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Death Becomes Aspen Michael Conniff 2010
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When criminals escape the local jurisdictions, they tend to drift into the wastelands where the constabulatory will not follow.
News 2010
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When criminals escape the local jurisdictions, they tend to drift into the wastelands where the constabulatory will not follow.
News 2010
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Army's success in subduing the Native American tribes in a series of small wars, and, closer to our time, the efficient "constabulatory operation" in Panama, which was invaded by the first President Bush in 1989.
unknown title 2009
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Or the incarceration of minors in the NT (Aboriginal minors) for 'crimes' that a stern word from the local constabulatory might warrant in a white child from a country town elsewhere.
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