Sentence examples for crushing attempts from inspiring English sources

So far California's voters have treated Indian casinos as a special case, twice approving them while crushing attempts to expand gambling elsewhere.

Two of the pillars on which it was built – adequate social care and radical improvements in prevention – are crumbling in the face of relentless cuts to local government funding, the pace of change is nowhere near what is required, and the financial collapse of the old system is crushing attempts to build a new one.

Coalition air strikes have crushed attempts by Gaddafi's navy to blockade the city and attack it from the sea.

In 1989 the military government, known as the State Law & Order Restoration Council, changed the nation's name to Myanmar, a name the U.S. doesn't recognize, and crushed attempts at democracy.

The new investors have reopened four of the enterprises 13 plants and have been ruthless in crushing any attempts at organizing its workers.

"The North and South should uphold the great cause of national independence and crush attempts by outside forces seeking to meddle in intranational affairs and forge ahead, without interruption, with all issues including economic projects which have been agreed upon by the two sides".

Ms. Freese relates the story of Franklin B. Gowen, a larger-than-life Pennsylvania industrialist, who relished crushing any attempt by the miners to unionize.

We chanted as we passed bemused bystanders, "Egyptians, Join Us!" There was no love lost between the Egyptian people and their regime, but thirty years of oppression had effectively crushed many attempts of opposition.

These corporations use contract labor as a tool to crush worker attempts to negotiate fair wages and as a loophole to avoid paying for quality health insurance, family and medical leave, worker education and worker retraining.

Once authoritarian governments take power, if they decide they don't want citizens to own guns, they take them away, easily crushing any isolated attempts at resistance.

Kez will need total control over the party machine to crush any attempt to destabilise her.