Mr Thaksin's attempt to crush the insurgency with brutal force made things worse.
The Soviet system was a pre-technological attempt to crush any trace of civil society.
Then, in December of 1992, the government moved in, in an abortive attempt to crush the Islamic groups.
With this crass, quasi-Soviet attempt to crush his creativity and humanity, the government disgraced itself in a unique fashion.
Then there is the blockade, imposed by the Saudis in an attempt to crush the Houthi rebels.
They overwhelmed the security forces that Mr. Mubarak deployed in an attempt to crush them; they defied a nighttime curfew even after Army units were deployed.
Egypt and Libya had earlier shut off access to the Internet in an attempt to crush popular uprisings led by young people and aided by social media networks.
Despite the bloodshed, misery, and resources exhausted by continual warfare, Nanda Bayin continued to attempt to crush Tai independence, launching further offensives in 1586 and 1587.
Kostinsky attributed the pressure on Tatar political leaders to the Kremlin's attempt to crush opposition to its rule in Crimea and eventually divide the Tatars politically.
Soldiers set fire to shops and houses this week in their latest attempt to crush Aceh's separatist guerrillas and prevent the province from breaking away.
Boris Johnson has been accused of using Parliament Square as his "private back garden" in an attempt to crush the fledgling Occupy Democracy movement.
