Sentence examples for ordered to crush from inspiring English sources

He was assigned to a battalion that had been ordered to crush an uprising in Barinas led by a neo-Maoist organization, Bandera Roja.

This week, Amnesty International issued a new report entitled, "'We Are Ordered to Crush You': Expanding Repression of Dissent in Iran".

Last June, the government invoked the archaic royal prerogative in order to crush the 2000 judgment.

She maintains that the war in Chechnya was waged not in order to crush secessionism but in order to protect Yeltsin's economic policy.

The government admits to arming militias but insists that this is only in order to crush a rebellion that began in February 2003.

According to an opposition YouTube channel, this video was recorded as Syrian soldiers who defied orders to crush the rebellion were embraced by protesters in Homs on Wednesday.

Dare Tunis, the progenitor of the Arab revolutions of 2011, turn to such state criminality in order to crush its own Islamist revolution today?

Adel's smuggled document cache has provided a complete case study of how precise orders to crush the popular uprising flowed from Damascus to the governorates.

I think you must be confusing Britain with Russia and China, where the intelligence agencies are free to read anyone's emails in order to crush political dissent.

The north-western region of Iraq borders Syria and it is where General Petraeus funded the Sahwa "awakening" militias in order to crush resistance in that region.

The events in Jisr al-Shoughour may also portend a trend of soldiers balking at orders to crush protests with lethal force, perhaps defecting to side against the government, a threat that seems to be spreading, according to interviews.