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Trump tried to emasculate him, suggesting his shoes were effeminate.

Trump's "strategy is always to emasculate everyone, women, or men," Dittmar said.

One way to emasculate a rival man is to insult or conquer his woman.

" Baxter explains: "I'm using this traditionally feminine craft of sewing to emasculate objects of power.

The Flip does not require that McConnell and Ryan emasculate themselves by endorsing Hillary Clinton.

Before Dodd-Frank became law, Wall Street lobbied furiously to emasculate it, but the attempt failed.

"There's one thing that I do: I don't emasculate my husband in front of other people," she told viewers.

Or they came from players, who used the barbs as a way to emasculate or demean the opponents across from them.

"The Chavistas will try to emasculate the democratic opposition, and they will have more draconian measures for the radical opposition," he said.

Yet the Philippines remains a glaring example of how men use language and law to try to emasculate opponents and maintain power.

For years, there's been speculation about a Hollywood conspiracy to emasculate Black men on TV, in film, and in pop culture in general.

Beyond doesn't emasculate him or sideline him, and it doesn't change his status as a two-fisted action hero with his roots in 1960s television.

Donald "Goldfinger" Trump has tried from the beginning of his campaign to emasculate, or effeminate, his opponents and detractors by calling them names, branding them.

As soon as Ronald Reagan began his presidency in 6900, China started lobbying his administration to emasculate the TRA provisions on arms sales to Taiwan.

He is seeking to tame, weaken and ultimately emasculate the "fourth branch of government" and rob it of the legitimacy it once enjoyed among many Americans.

Fighters have used sexual violence against men and boys as a tool to "humiliate, emasculate, and terrorize" perceived enemies, said All Survivors' Project director Charu Lata Hogg.

Regulated firms will be shocked and angered to learn that the Republican solicitor general is trying to persuade the court to eliminate or to emasculate that statutory safeguard.

Already their manifesto promises to look again at the relationships among Parliament, the government and the courts, which is code for: We intend to emasculate anything that constrains us.

This broad view of the Equal Protection Clause cannot be squared with conservatives' long-running effort to emasculate equal protection doctrine in the context of discrimination against racial minorities.

If he can't abide the risk of regime upheaval in Syria, he can flex Russia's military muscle, emasculate the West, and preserve Bashar al-Assad atop the rubble of Aleppo.

And for yet another cold open, cast member Kate McKinnon is back to emasculate members of Trump's Cabinet, this time dressing up as out-of-touch billionaire Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

In the latest crackdown on dissidents, a Thai court jailed seven activists on Friday for campaigning against the draft charter, which critics say will enshrine military power and emasculate civilian politics.

Since, though, he mostly only gets called on to gripe about gays in hip-hop and a clandestine American plot to emasculate the black man through incremental advances in street fashion.

"To endorse a man who not just once but at last twice terribly insulted your wife and multiple times accused your father of a heinous crime is to emasculate yourself," he said.

To the Editor: I have a challenge for Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump's choice to head the agency they want to emasculate: Take a deep breath of air in Beijing before you make any decisions.

He has a tantrum because you subtly emasculate him by ordering first at a bar or beating him in a neck-and-neck game of table football, and exits the room screaming about his mother.

With the Trump administration relying so heavily on private investment for its infrastructure plan, it made absolutely no sense to emasculate private activity bonds, which are so often used in large private-public infrastructure projects.

The dominant reflex since the British vote has been to emasculate the European Commission, the unloved "honest broker" at the centre of the EU system, sideline the European Parliament and hand more power back to national governments and lawmakers.

You don't have to be a stock market expert to appreciate that when a president says he's going to significantly cut business taxes and emasculate regulations that may be limiting profitability, of course stocks are going to go up.

I expect him to find ways to spend more time outside of D.C., with the voters who made him their champion, as opposed to inside D.C., with the bureaucracy that is threatened by him and wants to emasculate him.

We thought Mr Renzi's attempt to emasculate the powerful Senate, combined with a lopsided electoral law for the Chamber of Deputies, would have concentrated too much power in the hands of the prime minister—who, coincidentally, is one Matteo Renzi.

Yet the sense of undeniable menace he has brought to the show has been accompanied by uncomfortable, provocative and in some ways problematic themes, beginning with his overt intent to emasculate Rick (Andrew Lincoln), the leader of the group now under Negan's control.

Stalin's project of farm collectivization "served well enough as a means whereby the state could determine cropping patterns, fix real rural wages, appropriate a large share of whatever grain was produced, and politically emasculate the countryside"; it also killed many millions of peasants.

"If you consider the phrase post-9/11, with the reforms in immigration and steps toward securitizing domestic and foreign policy, you cannot have a government like America's say that it stands up to protect men, because that would emasculate them," Keremidchieva says.

"Misapplying the business judgment rule to a pure allegation of securities fraud ... would emasculate the federal policy of 'preventing management or others from obtaining authorization for corporate action by means of deceptive or inadequate disclosure in proxy solicitation," the Westinghouse opinion said.

There are sci-fi and video-game enthusiasts, too, including many who participated in the "GamerGate" uproar of 2014, which pitted (as the alt-right sees it) feminist game designers trying to emasculate the gaming world against (as the feminists saw it) a bunch of misogynist losers.

The iconic movie's famous metaphor for waking up to reality by taking "the red pill" has been appropriated by the alt-right to suggest that most of us are living a lie perpetuated by feminism, a cultural worldview which seeks to emasculate men and promote the superiority of women.

" Newspaper editorials thundered that the Chinese opium menace must be wiped out lest it "decimate our youth, emasculate the coming generation, if not completely destroy the population of our coast," and that for white Americans, smoking opium was "not at all consistent with their duties as Capitalists or Christians.

Though we are now in a moment where society doesn't necessarily emasculate men if their wives and partners make more money, Wong's need to overcompensate for time away from the home — by shouldering the bulk of the childcare — is not far off from the greater trend regarding division of labor in the U.S. A 2015 Pew study found that 54% of straight couples in working-parent households report that the woman still does the bulk of childcare.

Hence the parliament cannot emasculate the fundamental rights of individuals, including the right to liberty and equality.

Some then went on to emasculate him, which resulted in a fresh loss of blood that further exhausted him.

The term has also been used by 'racist and anti-semitic groups' to criticize and emasculate liberal men in an attempt to win adherents to their ideology.

The prison guard's wife burnt the book for fear of being implicated, but the guard manages to salvage some pages, which are about how to emasculate hen and ducks; the other pages are lost forever.

Irwin was considered "brilliant if erratic and at times violent.""Triple Slayer Works Out Fantastic Scheme for Cheating Electric Chair," Joplin (MO) Globe, 1938-10-16 at p. 2. He tried to emasculate himself, using a razor."Press: Murder for Easter," Time Magazine, 1937-04-12.

Come, do change your mind. It is not too late. Go into the law’ – to cruel attempts to emasculate him: ‘Men love to distinguish themselves, and in either of the other lines [army or law], distinction may be gained, but not in the church. A clergyman is nothing’.

Hence the parliament cannot emasculate the fundamental rights of individuals, and also includes the right to liberty and equality(which is not a fundamental right but considered a basic structure of the Constitution) . The ruling struck down article 4 and 55 of the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976 enacted during the Emergency imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi..

Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet of women believed to have consorted with the occupational Nazis. Four, for various reasons, have indeed - and their seducer is a lone, swaggering sergeant whom the partisans briskly emasculate. Escorted out of town by the sheepish Nazis, the forlorn ladies link up, patriotically and romantically, with a band of tough mountain guerrillas.

Media attention on female suicide bombers tends to examine emotional explanations for women's involvement, as opposed to ideological justifications. Another reason for the use of female suicide bombers may be based in culture. In the Middle East, use of female bombers by groups can be used as an image to emasculate males in the region. Using the idea that the situation is dire that the women have to fight.

Keightley's bowdlerized The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy for the Use of School (1831) was applauded by Thirlwall for making the subject "fit for ladies." In it, Cronus's use of the adamant sickle (harpē) to emasculate his father has been euphemized as an act of Uranus being "mutilated". It has been noted that Keightley took a more historico-scientific, as opposed to theological approach to Greek mythology.

It is not too late. Go into the law’ – to cruel attempts to emasculate him: ‘Men love to distinguish themselves, and in either of the other lines [army or law], distinction may be gained, but not in the church. A clergyman is nothing’. The Crawfords have often been portrayed by critics as those who threaten the ways and values of the countryside and, by extension, of England itself.

The first verse begins one minute into the song, with Bono announcing, "I'm ready, I'm ready for the laughing gas". During the verses, he sings primarily in a medium-to-low range and his vocals are treated with heavy processing, which takes out the bottom of the sound and "emasculate[s]" his voice. The processing also introduces a wavering quality to his vocals. The guitar glissando continues to be played during the verses.

The emasculation of captured Chinese boys guaranteed a continuous supply of eunuchs to serve in the Liao Dynasty harem. The Empress Dowager Xiao Chuo (Chengtian) played a large role in the raids to capture and emasculate the boys.祝建龙 (Zhu Jianlong), 二〇〇九年四月 (April 2009), 13.(Page 19 on online document viewer, Page 13 on actual document) Chengtian took power at age 30 in 982 as a regent for her son.

A World War II warplane piloted by a doll-like figure is hit by enemy fire and forced to ditch. The pilot's shoes are burned in the landing and he finds women's shoes, which he wears instead. The pilot is confronted by doll-like German soldiers, who taunt him for wearing women's shoes. The Germans threaten to emasculate him, but are killed by a group of doll-like women who come to the pilot's rescue and protect him.

Mobutu was the president of Zaire from 1965 to 1997. The trend toward co-optation of key social sectors continued in subsequent years. Women's associations were eventually brought under the control of the party, as was the press, and in December 1971 Mobutu proceeded to emasculate the power of the churches. From then on, only three churches were recognised: the Church of Christ in Zaire (L'Église du Christ au Zaïre), the Kimbanguist Church, and the Roman Catholic Church.

The emasculation of captured Chinese boys guaranteed a continuous supply of eunuchs to serve in the Liao Dynasty harem. The Empress Dowager, Chengtian, played a large role in the raids to capture and emasculate the boys. She personally led her own army and defeated the Song in 986, fighting the retreating Chinese army. She then ordered the castration of around 100 Chinese boys she had captured, supplementing the Khitan's supply of eunuchs to serve at her court, among them was Wang Ji'en.

Ben-Yehuda and Sandler 2002: 186 The effect of the summit and the decisions taken there was to emasculate the Council of the Arab League and supersede it as the foremost decision-making body.Maddy-Weitzman 1993: 34 n. 39 Nasser discouraged Syria and Palestinian guerrillas from provoking the Israelis, conceding that he had no plans for war with Israel. During the summit, Nasser developed cordial relations with King Hussein, and ties were mended with the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Morocco.

In 1973, the basic structure doctrine was formally introduced with rigorous legal reasoning in Justice Hans Raj Khanna's decisive judgment in the landmark decision of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala. Previously, the Supreme Court had held that the power of Parliament to amend the Constitution was unfettered. However, in this landmark ruling, the Court adjudicated that while Parliament has "wide" powers, it did not have the power to destroy or emasculate the basic elements or fundamental features of the constitution.

Male spiders apparently self-emasculate after copulation. > "At least in Nephilengys, this strategy enables remote copulation, a > continuation of sperm transfer after males are detached from copula, which > is an additional mechanism to secure eunuch paternity (Li et al. 2012). > Although Nephilengys papuana eunuchs have not been subject to experimental > testing, early research reported incidents of post-mating emasculation in > this species (Robinson and Robinson 1980) and thus its behavior is likely to > closely resemble that of its sister species."Kuntner, Matjaž, et al.

The Khitans adopted the practice of using eunuchs from the Chinese, and the eunuchs were non-Khitan prisoners of war. When they founded the Liao dynasty, they developed a harem system with concubines and wives and adopted eunuchs as part of it. The Khitans captured Chinese eunuchs at the Jin court when they invaded the Later Jin. Another source was during their war with the Song dynasty, the Khitan would raid China, capture Han Chinese boys as prisoners of war and emasculate them to become eunuchs.

The novel "consciously draws on Freudian theory to lend depth to his treatment of the two dominant characters, a psychotic woman, driven by childhood traumas to emasculate dominant males and to destroy all symbols of male hierarchical power, and her opponent, a weakened, age- conscious male reaffirming his masculine strengths." There is a factual error in the novel. Telephone conversations using scrambling are an important plot element in this novel. However, from about half-way through one side of the call is on a normal telephone.

During the May 1928 primary in Alabama, the League joined with Klansmen and members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). When an Alabama state senator proposed an anti- masking statute "to emasculate the order's ability to terrorize people", lobbying led by J. Bib Mills, the superintendent of the Alabama Anti-Saloon League, ensured that the bill failed. When it came to fighting “wet” candidates, especially candidates such as Al Smith in the presidential election of 1928, the League was less effective because its audience was already Republican.

This enabled them to replace the representatives of these cities in the States of several provinces, gaining Patriot majorities in the States of Holland, Groningen and Utrecht, and frequently also in the States General. This helped to emasculate the stadtholder's power as he was deprived of his command over a large part of the Dutch States Army. A low-key civil war ensued that resulted in a military stalemate, until in September–October 1787 the Patriots were defeated by a Prussian army and many were forced into exile.

They find only "Anaconda" brand malt liquor, a government-produced brand that, according to the advertising slogan, "Gives You Ooooooo!" In a diner, they decipher the slogan and uncover "Code Kansas" as a plan to literally emasculate African-American men through Anaconda Malt Liquor, which is formulated to "give (you) a little dick". The militant Gunsmoke, who has fallen victim to the liquor's effect, is killed to put him out of his misery. Returning to the warehouse, Black Dynamite finds O'Leary is part of the evil plan but is just following orders.

"Left forces" failed to have Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, elected vice president. Further, Lewis demoted Harry Bridges from West Coast CIO director to California state CIO director. The New York Times further stated: On January 3, 1940, Pressman discussed the "1940 Legislative Program of the CIO" on CBS Radio. orIn his speech, Pressman said: > On pretexts of economy, more money for war purposes and similar catch cries, > the reactionary financial interests and their political henchmen hope to > reduce appropriations for the unemployed and for publish works, to > emasculate labor and social legislation, and to restrict our civil > liberties.

Most myths of the deified Attis present him as founder of Cybele's Galli priesthood but in Servius' account, written during the Roman Imperial era, Attis castrates a king to escape his unwanted sexual attentions, and is castrated in turn by the dying king. Cybele's priests find Attis at the base of a pine tree; he dies and they bury him, emasculate themselves in his memory, and celebrate him in their rites to the goddess. This account might attempt to explain the nature, origin and structure of Pessinus' theocracy.Lancellotti, Maria Grazia, Attis, between myth and history: king, priest, and God, Brill, 2002, p.

However, he was unable to successfully emasculate the power of the Woodville family during this period (although reducing it somewhat), or return to his previous position as the king's single most important councillor. At this point the king had still not had a male heir, and his brother, George, Duke of Clarence- Warwick's ally- was heir to the throne. Although the extent of Warwick's and Clarence's involvement in the rebellion is disputed by modern historians (for example, it has been argued that they had no involvement at all, and that it was an attempt by the crown to smear them for political reasons).

Although public views toward COs were generally negative, as they were viewed as cowardly, emasculate, and untrustworthy, after 1944 when the government released their participation in experiments, the media covered the COs involved in experimentation in a positive light. The Minnesota Starvation Experiment was featured in Life Magazine in 1945, making it the first of the Guinea Pig Experiments to be widely publicized. After this publication, other newspapers and journals including The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, World-Telegram, Survey Graphic, and Coronet Magazine began discussing these COs positively. This press coverage tended to focus on the sacrifice the COs were making and the risks they were facing, depicting them as far more patriotic and heroic than prior representations.

Held that the Constitution of India which is essentially a social rather than a political document, is founded on a social philosophy and as such has two main features basic and circumstantial. The basic constituent remained constant, the circumstantial was subject to change. According to the learned Judges, the broad contours of the basic elements and the fundamental features of the Constitution are delineated in the preamble and the Parliament has no power to abolish or emasculate those basic elements of fundamental features. The building of a welfare State is the ultimate goal of every Government but that does not mean that in order to build a welfare State, human freedoms have to suffer a total destruction.

This initiative resulted in the formation in April 1997 of the National Constituent Assembly and its executive wing, the National Convention Executive Council (NCEC) with former dean of law, Professor Kivutha Kibwana, as its spokesperson. The NCEC organised constitution reform rallies in May, July, and August 1997. Moi responded by arguing that the government could not negotiate about constitutional reform with the civil sector, including the NCEC, that consisted of people who had no elective mandate. Members of the National Assembly bought the argument and abandoned the NCEC in favour of the newly formed Inter-Parties' Parliamentary Group (IPPG), which overtook the NCEC's initiative and allowed Moi to take control of the reform process and then emasculate it.

According to the learned Judge, the provisions of Article 31d, as they hen, conferring power on Parliament and the State Legislatures to enact laws for giving effect to the principles specified in Clauses (b) and (c) of Article 39, altogether abrogated the right given by Article 14 and were for that reason unconstitutional. In conclusion, the learned Judge held that though the power of amendment was wide, it did not comprehend the power to totally abrogate or emasculate or damage any of the fundamental rights or the essential elements of the basic structure of the Constitution or to destroy the identity of the Constitution. Subject to these limitations, Parliament had the right to amend any and every provision of the Constitution.

After the wedding, Parker sends the newlyweds on an expensive honeymoon to Europe, after which they return to their lavish home, also supplied by Parker. Parker also promotes Dick, but within six months, his new lifestyle threatens to emasculate Dick, who loses interest in his career and finds himself dominated by Dot's vapid, social whirl of bridge games, cocktail parties and passive acceptance of life as a "kept husband". This does not sit well with the proud husband, and when Parker offers him a chance to prove himself with a new position in St. Louis, he jumps at the chance. When told of the opportunity however, Dot is less than enthusiastic, not wanting to leave her friends and social circle.

The first wave of arrests under Marcos' declaration of martial law began with the arrest of Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. late in the evening of September 22, during a late meeting of the Joint Congressional Committee on Tariff Reforms at the Manila Hilton Hotel. Aquino was one of Marcos' most prominent critics, and had exposed the plan to proclaim martial law in a speech in the Philippine Senate the week before. Juan Ponce Enrile would later acknowledge that the first wave of arrests focused on political figures and journalists "in the initial stages, we must emasculate all the leaders in order to control the situation." The arrest of others took place after midnight in the early morning hours of September 23.

The 13-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court deliberated on the limitations, if any, of the powers of the elected representatives of the people and the nature of fundamental rights of an individual. In a verdict divided 7-6, the court held that while the Parliament has 'wide' powers, it did not have the power to destroy or emasculate the basic elements or fundamental features of the constitution. When this case was decided, the underlying apprehension of the majority bench that elected representatives could not be trusted to act responsibly was unprecedented. The Kesavananda judgment also defined the extent to which Parliament could restrict property rights, in pursuit of land reform and the redistribution of large landholdings to cultivators, overruling previous decisions that suggested that the right to property could not be restricted.

However, the text can also be read as a counter narrative to the discourse of nineteenth-century Western literary orientalism that tends to emasculate Muslim men and represents Muslim women as always in the lookout for a gaze at Western Christian heroes only to sexually offer themselves to their supposed dream-lovers. Contrary to the image of emasculated Muslim man, Faizunnesa depicts an ‘athletic and strong’ Muslim hero of virility and valor who “grew so handsome at sixteen / That wherever he went, women were seen / Flocking around him; his manliness / Turned the meekest housewives into temptresses / And each of these women longed to be the one / To be loved by this handsome man!” (50) As opposed to orientalist representations, in Rupjalal it is a Muslim hero who is at the centre of Muslim women's imagination.

Two interpretations exist of Paul's comment on those wanting to force circumcision on Gentile Christians in . The KJV reading "I would they were even cut off" suggests cut off from the Church, but most modern versions, following scholars such as Lightfoot, R. C. H. Lenski and F. F. Bruce, read as the ESV "I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!" - due to a reading of the Greek text apokopsontaiὄφελον καὶ ἀποκόψονται οἱ ἀναστατοῦντες ὑμ "be cut off" as Paul wishing that the circumcisers would castrate themselves.Thomas Marberry, Robert E. Picirilli, Daryl Ellis Galatians through Colossians 1988 p90 "The main problem concerns the meaning of the phrase "I would they were even cut off. ... often used to describe some type of bodily mutilation such as castration (Lightfoot 207; Lenksi 272; Bruce, Galatians 238; Arndt and Gingrich 92).

In November 2012, covert video footage of Heaton-Harris discussing the role of James Delingpole in the Corby by-election were published on The Guardian{'}s website. The recording, made by Greenpeace, appeared to show the MP's support for Delingpole's independent, anti-windfarm candidacy, at a time when Heaton- Harris was engaged by the Conservatives to run the unsuccessful campaign of their own candidate, Christine Emmett. Heaton-Harris indicated that this was linked to a plan by core members of the Conservative Party to emasculate the Climate Change Act by making its commitments advisory rather than mandatory. After Heaton-Harris apologised for the impression he gave in the video, Home Secretary Theresa May said he was guilty only of silly bragging, while Labour's Michael Dugher MP urged Prime Minister David Cameron to show leadership and punish him.

In Singapore, the percentage of Christians among Singaporeans increased from 12.7%, in 1990, to 17.5%, in 2010. In recent years, the number of Chinese Christians has increased significantly; Christians were 4 million before 1949 (3 million Catholics and 1 million Protestants), and are reaching 67 million today, Christianity is reportedly the fastest growing religion in China with average annual rate of 7%.China accused of trying to 'co-opt and emasculate' Christianity, The Guardian, Tuesday 17 November 2015 Some reports also show that many of the Chinese Indonesians minority convert to Christianity, Demographer Aris Ananta reported in 2008 that "anecdotal evidence suggests that more Buddhist Chinese have become Christians as they increased their standards of education". According to a poll conducted by the Gallup Organization in 2006, Christianity has increased significantly in Japan, particularly among youth, and a high number of teens are becoming Christians.

At 7:15 PM on 23 September 1972, Marcos went on air to announce that he had proclaimed martial law throughout the Philippines. The Military had begun rounding up journalists, political leaders, key opposition figures, and even some delegates to the constitutional convention – anyone who could pose a challenge to Marcos' control of the government and the economy. Then Defense Secretary and later became Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who was in charge of the arrests, later recounted that they had to "emasculate the leaders" to achieve total control of the country. Although he originally justified it on the basis of supposed threats to the national government, Marcos soon framed the declaration of Martial Law in 1972 as an effort to create a "New Society", promising economic growth and making it more acceptable to the business and international community while allowing Marcos even more control over the Philippine economy.

Under her guidance, Julia seduces a man (implied to be a rapist of one of the past patients of Sgrundud), lures him to her apartment, where the rest of the sisterhood restrain him, make Julia emasculate him (taking genitals as a trophy), kill him and dispose of the body. After several more hunts, Julia one day sees one of her rapists, Adam, in the clinic where she works, and decides to seek revenge on them all using Sgrundud's methods. She convinces Adam to assemble a meeting (claiming that "in a way, it [what happened] was the best thing to ever happen to me") but leaving Pierce, the rapists "boss", as last. The night of the meeting, Julia drugs Adam and the other two friends who raped her, surgically removes Adam's eyes (as he did not actually rape her, only watched) and the other men's genitalia, then leaves for the last one, Pierce.

After the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, with Hong Kong residents concerned over their civil liberties, the Societies Ordinance was reviewed; it was amended in 1992, relaxing some of the restrictions against being able to register some societies, but this was repealed after the handover in 1997. According to the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor (HRM), China amended the ordinance in 1997 "as part of a package of China's effort to emasculate the Hong Kong Bill of Rights". The 1997 amendments include the proviso that should the relevant officials "reasonably believe" that prohibiting a society "is necessary in the interests of national security or public safety, public order (ordre public) or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others", it can be banned without evidence. HRM said that: The international response to this 'national security law' was to invoke the Siracusa Principles, which says that national security "cannot be invoked as a reason for imposing limitations to prevent merely local or relatively isolated threats to law and order", only against outside threats.

Batangueños were not spared from the social and economic turmoil that began during the second term of President Ferdinand Marcos, including his 1971 suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, his 1972 declaration of Martial law, and his continued hold on power from the lifting of Martial Law in 1981 until his ouster under the People Power Revolution of 1986. Prominent Batangueño senator Jose W. Diokno was one of the first people Marcos imprisoned without charges, because according to then- Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile, the regime found it necessary to "emasculate the voices of the opposition." In 1981, Marcos used his Presidential “power of imminent domain” to convert 167 hectares of agricultural lands in San Rafael, Calaca for industrial use, paving the way for the construction of the Semirara Calaca power plant regardless of its health and environmental impact. Among the later victims of the regime were student leaders Ismael Umali, Noel Clarete, and Aurelio Magpantay from Western Philippine Colleges in Batangas City, who disappeared after a protest rally in March 1984, and whose mangled bodies were later discovered abandoned in nearby Cavite province.