In the end, despite Reed's pronouncements of his allegiance to Israel, Brad Sherman, AIPAC's long and trusted ally, quashed him, winning by a margin of two to one.
Novotný invited Leonid Brezhnev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to Prague to help him quash the dissension, but Brezhnev refused to get involved.
Horta-Osório, whose pay deals over the past two years total £20m, also sought to quash talk of him leaving the group, saying he was as committed as ever to leading Britain's biggest retail bank.
The attorney general needs to surely, with the evidence presented to him today and the evidence previously presented to him, must quash the inquest verdicts in all cases.
He did not respond to requests for comment, and his lawyer has moved to quash a subpoena ordering him to answer questions about the case.
The Republican leaders forced him to quash the bill and turned the issue over to Senator Don Nickles, a conservative Republican from Oklahoma.
Mr. Oakley said he was so concerned by General Beg's statements in 1991 that he went to Pakistan's prime minister at the time, Nawaz Sharif, and urged him to quash any such arrangement.
In a motion to quash a subpoena requiring him to appear as a witness for the prosecution at Goodson's trial, Porter's attorneys said he plans to assert his rights under the state and federal constitutions to decline to testify.
Even the police force, much despised by Mr. Mubarak's opponents for trying to quash the protests that pushed him from power, has sought to portray itself as standing with the people in the new era.
