Sentence examples for moving to crush from inspiring English sources

After the failed coup last summer, Erdoğan began moving to crush the H.D.P.'s leadership — he knew, given the history of the relationship between Kurds and the central government, that they would never endorse an expansion of the President's powers.

United States officials, who said they were not surprised by the announcement, said they believed that it would help President Obama win more stringent sanctions against Iran, and particularly against the Revolutionary Guards, who run the nuclear program and have protected Mr. Ahmadinejad and other leaders by moving to crush Iran's domestic opposition movement.

The forces of darkness are already moving to crush the revolution right now, as those who do not understand the enormity of the promise in this change in Congress ally with those who do and want it stopped regardless, all well armed by those who have fed off the system for so long they forgot NASA's job is exploring space and not the national wallet for their own ends.

But Mao rapidly lost his appetite for such things as he moved to crush growing dissent.

Since returning for a third time as president, Putin has moved to crush mass protests against his rule.

Since returning for a third term as president, Putin has moved to crush mass protests against his rule.

The mass trials are linked to the protests and riots that broke out last August when the security forces moved to crush sit-ins staged by the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters to show opposition to the coup.

In February, 2011, with the Arab Spring in its hopeful first months, the Libyan dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, moved to crush an uprising that had erupted in the coastal city of Benghazi.

Pinochet was named head of the victorious junta's governing council, and he moved to crush Chile's liberal opposition; in its first three years the regime arrested approximately 130,000 people, many of whom were tortured.

The belligerents represented are just a fraction of those fighting on land or in the air in the Syrian civil war, which started as the Assad government moved to crush the Arab Spring of 2011.

The Mi-26 crash was by far the single most catastrophic loss of Russian lives in the second Chechen war, which began in September 1999 when Russian troops moved to crush the Chechen separatist movement.