Sentence examples for are quashed from inspiring English sources

By contrast, even the tiniest antigovernment demonstrations in Moscow are quashed by riot troops, sometimes violently.

The animating question behind these tales of beastly alliances, however, remains: Which desires are quashed, and which are awakened?

As soon as a planned closure is known, there is a political and public outcry and most are quashed.

Mrs Justice Lang, sitting in London, said: "The defendant [council's] decision on 8 and 23 February 2011 to adopt new community care eligibility criteria are quashed".

"He will be appointed for the job only if all the charges against him are quashed and if a full police verification gives him a clean chit," the wing commander said.

The idea is to compensate innocent people who do time in error, without rewarding guilty ones whose convictions are quashed on a technicality: the standards for quashing and paying are different.

It was quashed.

But human romances were quashed.

Sometimes entire films were quashed.

Their convictions were quashed in 1989.

Last year, the verdict was quashed.