Sentence examples for official suppression from inspiring English sources

In particular, journalists, who suffered grievously from official suppression over the past eight years, hold out the hope that he can ease the many restrictions on their freedom to report the news.

After joint student demonstrations at the Wartburg Festival in October 1817 and the assassination of August von Kotzebue (a German writer who served the Russian tsar) by the nationalistic Burschenschafter Karl Sand in March 1819, the alarmed German governments passed the Carlsbad Decrees (1819), which in part provided for the official suppression of the Burschenschaften.

The number of speakers was further reduced by the official suppression of the language in the Soviet Union, by the antagonism of early Israeli authorities zealously guarding modern Hebrew, and by massive voluntary shifts to other primary languages in Western countries.

The matter quickly escalated into a major public controversy which eventually led to the official suppression of the offending issue of the journal and to public threats by various German princes to prevent their students from enrolling at the University of Jena.

Supporters of Taiwanese writing are in general deeply suspicious of government involvement, given the history of official suppression of native languages, making it unclear whether Tâi-Lô or POJ will become the dominant system in the future.

They implicitly endorsed the official verdict that suppression of the protests was necessary to pave the way for China's recent prosperity.

Official corruption, the suppression of moderate forms of Islam and a sense that social problems like drug use are beyond the control of the government have led people in neighboring countries to embrace a harsh political Islam.

The senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus of Montana, said that given a limited scope of the investigation, "we cannot know about the involvement or knowledge of White House officials" in the suppression of information.

Official explanations for the suppression of the report were less than satisfactory.

Since a 1988 fire impacted nearly one third of Yellowstone National Park, forestry officials have begun rethinking suppression policies.

French officials enforced the vigorous suppression of the smuggling of English and colonial goods to the Continent through Holland that had sprung up over the previous decade with London's connivance.