Sentence examples for crush opponents from inspiring English sources

England are not good enough to win convincingly and Israel aren't good enough to dominate the game and crush opponents.

But in practice, audience responses are adversarial and polemical, determined both to nitpick small stuff and to crush opponents with disproportionately vicious force.

His latest policies certainly demonstrate that he has resorted to war with the Kurds to rally nationalists and crush opponents with police-state methods.

For onlookers in the west, Erdoğan's clampdown confirms his well-established tendency to regard his own popularity as a mandate to crush opponents.

The focus of concern is not so much Chechnya, which is in a state of precarious calm thanks to the local strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov, well known for his use of both violence and bribery to crush opponents.

Their opponents say Mr. Luzhkov and Ms. Baturina are well aware of how the system works, having used it to crush opponents and file lawsuits against a generation of independent journalists.

They persuaded the public either of the existence of malevolent plots against the state or — more likely — of the state's ruthlessness in crushing opponents.

He has crushed opponents, emasculated the courts and parliament, eliminated independent broadcast media, scrapped the autonomy of Russia's regions and blatantly fixed elections.

By day, he crushes opponents as head of a venal corporate law firm, while by night he solves the heartache of immigrants and the underprivileged.

They described the mayor of recent years, who ran Moscow like a personal fief, crushing opponents while surrounding himself with a small team of allies who enriched themselves through their control of the city's main avenues of commerce.

That's how they draw their pay; that's what allows them to rule by the gun in an unofficial martial law, looting villages under the pretext of mopping-up operations, extracting taxes and bribes, crushing opponents.