Sentence examples for quashed what from inspiring English sources

Shortly after presidential elections in 2006, the police and riot forces quashed what were for Belarus sizeable antigovernment protests.

And while my experience did not point to a flourishing environment for the press in Egypt, it gave me a hint of how this country has quashed what looked like a growth industry five years ago: terrorism against foreigners.

A walk drawn by Ashley Lund put runners on the corners, but a baserunning miscue quashed what could've been a huge rally.

Some Palestinians condemn the summit meeting as a move to quash what they see as their war of independence.

The Taliban vow to quash what they call an American plot, but they may quietly seek a compromise, perhaps by loosening their edicts or freeing Mullah Ismail.

The letter places Holt in the odd position of issuing dire threats to quash what is plainly an act of free speech.

But the hard-liners don't want to reconcile with these hard truths — they want to quash what they see as a dangerous tool.

In addition to lodging the charges against Mr. Somsak, the army is leading a multimillion-dollar campaign, provided for in the most recent Thai government budget, to quash what it perceives as threats to the king and his family.

Insisting that the complaints were unfounded, Mr. Renneisen, a former casino executive and Army captain, promised to quash what he referred to as "the rebellion of the beauty queens".

A 43-year-old Iranian woman is facing death by stoning unless an international campaign launched by her children forces the authorities to quash what her lawyer calls a bogus conviction.

China's efforts to quash what it says is separatism and religious extremism among its ethnic Muslim population have turned the far western region of Xinjiang into one of the world's most heavily policed areas.