Sentence examples for be crushed at from inspiring English sources

Mau Mau's horrific murders and mutilations - mostly against their own Kikuyu people - convinced British administrators they were fighting a primeval rejection of civilisation, a reaction against modernity, which had to be crushed at all costs.

McGovern was crushed at the polls.

She is crushed at this and gives in.

In the darkness, fans were crushed at locked doors.

Marist was crushed at Oklahoma, 83-57, itsits fourth game of the season.

A Pair of Answers My young daughter's eyeglasses were crushed at a sleepover, through no fault of her own.

Russians have made the hospital their own, she said, and they are crushed at its probable closing.

In Lasantha Wickrematunge's posthumous editorial, published four months before the Tigers were crushed at Mullaittivu, he wrote, "There is no gainsaying that [the Tigers] must be eradicated".

It originated in the nineteen-nineties, in Algeria, where a decade-long Islamist insurgency was crushed at the cost of tens of thousands of lives.

A strong Spanish expedition against Tripoli was crushed at Jarbah (Djerba) in 1560, but the Ottomans failed to capture Malta from the Knights of St. John in 1565.

When Athens withdrew its support after the peace of Antalcides (386), Evagoras' troops fought without allies until they were crushed at Citium (Larnaca, Cyprus) in 381.