Sentence examples for quell with from inspiring English sources

But his ability to campaign has been hobbled because of threats from Islamist militants and Baluch separatists, whom he tried to quell with military force while in office.

Patco began a series of work slowdowns and sickouts that the F.A.A. was largely able to quell with little real improvement in working conditions.

Pitt and Jolie invariably arrived last at red carpet events, such as the Oscars, thus ensuring maximum photo op, and, of course, there was the fascination with their multicultural children, which, again, the Jolie-Pitts did little to quell, with their strictly managed magazine shoots that sold for record-breaking millions.

For all of the intensity of The Master, this is a movie that begins its most fiery sequence (where Lancaster Dodd "processes" Freddie Quell) with a terrific fart joke.

Protectionism can be quelled with diplomacy, unrest with force.

Protests by opposition supporters in several cities were quelled with tear gas.

Occasional revolts against exilarchic taxation and administration in outlying areas of Persia had to be quelled with armed force.

Such events, as has been made tragically clear this week, are often quelled with tear gas and have the potential for violence.

In the northern state of Punjab, a violent separatist movement that claimed thousands of lives was finally quelled with a heavy security response, including premeditated killings.

One inmate was killed today and 12 others were wounded in a riot at a maximum-security prison here that guards quelled with gunfire.

But from 1904 to 1907 a great war of resistance broke out, nearly expelling the Germans before it was quelled with extreme savagery by tactics including extermination, hangings, and forced detention in concentration camps.