If there was any thought that yesterdays mass, organized protests would be the last, it was quelled the moment, right after midnight, that Hosni Mubarak addressed the country.
The revolt, which claimed at least 20 million lives before it was quelled, making it the bloodiest civil war in history, suggests caution for those who hope for a popular uprising — a Chinese Spring — today.
But from 1904 to 1907 a great war of resistance broke out, nearly expelling the Germans before it was quelled with extreme savagery by tactics including extermination, hangings, and forced detention in concentration camps.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fight at a troubled South Los Angeles high school escalated into a campuswide brawl involving as many as 600 students before it was quelled by police officers in riot gear.
Keith Olbermann, Fox's on-site reporter, nonetheless walked over to Bud Selig, baseball's commissioner, seated behind home plate, who said he didn't think the Clemens incident required immediate attention because it was quelled so quickly and the Mets did not demand Clemens's immediate ejection.
The uprising came close to threatening Baghdad itself, and it was only through the intervention of the capable Harthama that it was quelled, with Abu 'l-Saraya being captured and executed in October.
A lot of things are riding on this UI redesign for Microsoft and the Xbox team, but more importantly it's quelling the frustrations that many of us have had to deal with since the beginning of time.
Homer's murderous rage is quelled only when he is shown a small, handheld television set.
Public ire is quelled by a combination of coercion and bribery.
Fears of a bad turn in the weather forcing a halt to the operation before it began were quelled as the rain cleared at dawn and tug boats carrying divers and engineers sped out to the Concordia to be on hand for emergencies.
