The phrase "about to suppress" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating an imminent action of stopping or restraining something.
Example: "The authorities are about to suppress the protest to maintain order in the city."
Alternatives: "on the verge of suppressing" or "ready to suppress".
Intentionally or not, your column tips in that same direction when you muse about trying to suppress "my own feelings about what is happening in Israel and Palestine" (emphasis added).
I asked Hoffman about reflex boners and criticisms about having to suppress a natural bodily function in naturist spaces in a follow-up email.
It took about 1,000 people to suppress the fires in August 2000.
The two fires cost about $3 million to suppress.
If he's talking about trying to suppress actual facts, I don't agree with that obviously.
His Will Smith-led drama Concussion, about efforts to suppress controversial research into brain damage suffered by American football players, is due to premiere at the AFI film festival in Los Angeles next week.
Correction: July 24 , 2002 Wednesday The State of the Art column in Circuits on June 27, about ways to suppress pop-up advertising on the Web, referred incorrectly to the latest version of the Netscape browser.
Asked about how to suppress Iraq's capability to use chemical or biological weapons on American troops or Israel, Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that "one of the things you'd think about doing would be attacking his delivery means or his weapons of mass destruction".
They are about trying to suppress votes of certain groups that some people would rather not see vote as often.
A new video released by the ACLU shows what's supposedly a behind-the-scenes look at a photo shoot in which Black learns about efforts to suppress voters through voter ID laws, restrictions on early voting and more.
