Sentence examples for quell opponents from inspiring English sources

Ironically, the army's success in forcing many of the armed ethnic insurgencies to accept ceasefires has left it with few soldiers with much real experience of fighting.The regime may be trying to calibrate its response to the protests, using limited force at first to quell opponents.

Arnault's insistence that he would keep his French citizenship and remain a resident in France for tax purposes did little to quell his opponents.

In addition to the reasons put forth in our leader, many plausibly claim that colour-conscious admissions policies may inflame (though do not create) racial resentment and promote (though sometimes quell) stereotyping.But opponents of racial preferences are often insufficiently sensitive to the negative consequences of ending them.

After three movies, I find myself now longing for Harry to test his powers outside the closed world of school, to confront a human adversary in a situation where magic skills may or may not be of any use, or else to use them to quell a wizard-opponent viciously seeking dominion in the muggle world.

In both cases, local resistance was fanned by their thuggish efforts to quell it and by their main political opponent, the Trinamul Congress party, as well as, to a lesser extent, by the Maoists.

However, this should not be interpreted as deference to one's contemporaries or as an attempt to quell controversy, since authors became adept at signaling their opponents without actually naming them, paraphrasing or parodying their views or catchphrases as modes of ridicule or play.

Taliban militants have repeatedly attacked their opponents, including tribal elders, with lethal accuracy to quell any dissent.

Pakistani historians say his six years in power were marked by rampant disregard for the constitution he drew up in 1973, by widespread arrests of political opponents, and by deployment of the army to quell restiveness in the provinces.

Moving to quell what one memorandum called the "collaboration" of the F.D.A.'s opponents, the surveillance operation identified 21 agency employees, Congressional officials, outside medical researchers and journalists thought to be working together to put out negative and "defamatory" information about the agency.

The Russian leader sought to quell speculation over Kremlin involvement in the death of one of his opponents when he condemned Nemtsov's "brazen murder" and called for an end to the "shameful" political killings that have marked modern Russia.

Pacification, to quell a potential civil war after a disputed election, to pacify the opponents through political concessions.