Sentence examples for fierce suppression from inspiring English sources
He embarked on the fierce suppression of political dissent, and his forces killed hundreds of pro-Morsi protesters.Nevertheless, Mr Sisi plans to issue decrees criminalising insults to Egypt's two "revolutions"—the one that overthrew Mr Mubarak in 2011 and the one that brought Mr Sisi to power in 2013.
As sheriff of Logan County, Chafin was a fierce opponent of unionization and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from coal mine operators in return for his violent suppression of the United Mine Workers union.
There can be violent suppression.
He was a fierce proponent of the 2011 protests in eastern Saudi Arabia, calling for an end to decades of unjust imprisonment and torture of innocents, an immediate halt to the Saudi-backed violent suppression of protests in Bahrain, and other reforms.
Mr. Rafeh had been outspoken in his support for the fierce government suppression of armed opponents.
The fierce French suppression of the Nidwalden Revolt in September 1798 was an example of the oppressive presence of the French Army and the local population's resistance to the occupation.
Its policy, which includes seeking dialogue with gang leaders, has come under fierce criticism, and there have been demands for more aggressive suppression of slum-based gangs and for the return of the disbanded Haitian army.
The other problem: the men of the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice, who wear black turbans and black eyeliner (to make themselves appear fierce), were patrolling the entrance to the shrine, and they are terrible xenophobes.
This traditional method had been replaced with strict fire suppression in modern times, which resulted in fewer fires, but the fires that did ignite tended to be fierce.
The suppression is breathtaking.
