Sentence examples for crush the protest from inspiring English sources

Russia had since frozen tranches of the aid amid behind-the-scenes pressure for Yanukovych to crush the protest movement.

On the eve of a protest in Ingushetia, in 2007, Orlov went to the city of Nazran, fully aware that the next day the authorities would crush the protest.

But last week 60 academics at the university sent an open letter to the vice-chancellor deploring the "heavy-handed" tactics used to crush the protest and supporting the students' calls for disinvestment from the arms industry and scholarships for Palestinian students.

However, Nhu, already looking to arrest Buddhist leaders and crush the protest movement, used the opportunity to preempt the generals and embarrass them.

The son of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has taken control of the militia being used to crush the protest movement, according to a senior Iranian source.

"What we hope is that the government realizes that this path of excessive force to crush the protest movement isn't working and they sit down to have a dialogue with the Oromo community".ollow Kayla Ruble on Twitter: @RubleKB.

"But he never attempted to crush the protests.

Its security forces, better equipped and trained than Tunisia's, can probably crush the protests.

Mr Abhisit is under pressure from hardliners who want to use force to crush the protests.

The police tried to crush the protests, but unarmed people stood firm against water cannons, armoured carriers and teargas.

Egypt has an extensive and widely feared security apparatus, and it deployed its might in an effort to crush the protests.