Sentence examples for quell legitimate from inspiring English sources

Amnesty International is among those who claim, for instance, that Lee has abused the national security act, intended to root out North Korean infiltration, to quell legitimate opposition at home.

"This suspicionless, overbroad monitoring quells legitimate First Amendment activity and exceeds the agency's legal authority".

In Kashmir the army, backed by every Indian government of the past decade, has murdered thousands of people in a failed effort to quell an insurgency that is rooted in legitimate grievance.India is not shining, but its people do have the advantage in violent and corrupt elections of changing their government.

has give the appearing of restoring as defensible & legitimate policy the use of American force-in the form of firepower & limited manpower-to quell domestic rebellions & support governments beseiged by their own people.

Republican Representative Todd Akin failed to quell an onslaught of social media criticism after issuing a vague statement on Facebook related to his assertion that "legitimate rape" rarely causes pregnancy, because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down".

Although I expect that the first concern is legitimate given what I've learned, I believe that this history has the potential to calm and even quell some of the tensions that persist.

Tighter credit is necessary to quell inflation.

He did nothing to quell the rumor.

That is unlikely to quell its critics.

We need outside forces to quell confrontation".

That will help to quell popular anger.