Sentence examples for bud by from inspiring English sources

My brothers and I nipped that regime in the bud by complying.

Others were nipped in the bud by the authorities, or thwarted by alert citizens.

Nipping conflict in the bud by silencing dark propaganda would do a lot of good.

In Senegal, the government nipped the epidemic in the bud by cajoling prostitutes into using condoms.

A boisterous response to the chemicals released into the bud by a growing larva of the gall midge Rabdophaga strobilina.

How this is actually nipped in the bud by the political situation in Northern Ireland is shown.

The Solar Bud by Luceplan collects solar energy by day and casts light downward on lawns or paths at night.

Armed regime loyalists have been dispersed to all the main cities to nip any sign of rebellion in the bud by massacring leaders swiftly, they say.

China cannot redeem the legacy of the Tiananmen Square killings — of nipping voices of freedom in the bud — by evading its stand on human rights.

I am hopeful that a spasm of nastiness among a small minority of students here has been nipped in the bud by the open condemnation of the majority.

Attempts to protest last month against the handover of the two islands to Saudi Arabia were nipped in the bud by the authorities.