| 1 | The country is under martial law and the airports are closed. | |
| 2 | The theatre of military government is necessarily foreign. On the other hand, martial law is purely a domestic fact. | |
| 3 | He also re-established a law permitting local governments to order curfews. | |
| 4 | Military government is placed within the domain of international law, while martial law is within the cognizance of municipal law. | |
| 5 | They were partly right: China waited until the day after Mr Gorbachev left before declaring martial law. |