Sentence examples for put down with force from inspiring English sources

The Assad government has maintained that it faces an internal armed insurrection that must be put down with force.

After 1848 periodic insurrections by the peasantry, notably in Cephallenia, had to be put down with force, and the Ionian parliament voted for immediate union with the new Greek kingdom.

The catalyst was an oil workers' strike in the western city of Zhanoazen in December of 2011 that police put down with force, killing 14 and wounding at least 80.

Any protests are put down with brutal force.

Other press accounts of the interview with a Portuguese television station quoted him as also saying, "A military solution is never the right solution," an ironic assessment from a man whose own questionable re-election in 2009 prompted huge street demonstrations that were put down with decisive force.

And popular protests are put down with whatever force may be required.

But the dead of China's Tienanmen Square and the defeat of the democracy movement in Iran illustrate that civil resistance can be put down with military force.

As in the ghetto, he says, rebellions are put down with disproportionate force.

These 'Spitalfield Riots' of 1769 were actually centred to the east and were put down with considerable force, culminating in two men being hanged in front of the Salmon and Ball public house at Bethnal Green.

During the fighting, he was arrested in Benin at the behest of Mr. Bozizé; the rebellion was put down with the aid of French forces in 2007, a peace accord was signed, and Mr. Djotodia was released from prison in 2008.

He put down with great severity a rebellion of the combined forces of Sidon, Tyre, and other Syrian cities.