Put to
State
State verb - To convey in appropriate or telling terms.
Both terms in one sentence
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A Star Trek: Voyager has the crew being put to sleep by a race that prefers to exist in a lucid dream-like state.
Source: A Glitch in the Matrix -
He has also created a Police State where everyone has to follow the instructions, otherwise they will be put to sleep, connected with his hatred of Master Builders who are a lot more chaotic and individualistic than his system is.
Source: The Perfectionist -
See (again) Throw-Away Country, and also his plan to kill New York if an innocent man who had been found guilty was put to death, essentially because the case was titled that man "vs the State of New York".
Source: Comic Book / The Spectre
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