Sentence examples for stifle protest from inspiring English sources

This is a deliberate, co-ordinated process of trying to stifle protest.

Alarmed by worsening social unrest, government officials have adopted "stability maintenance" as a mantra — and a pretext to stifle protest.

That assertion itself drew protests from the New York Civil Liberties Union, which said the city was fostering an atmosphere of tension that could stifle protest.

The site claims the civil action is an attempt to stifle protest: "The civil lawsuit represents just 10 hours' profit for EDF, yet could result in protesters losing their homes and being saddled with lifelong debts," it claims.

The bracketing of such an example with restrictions on protesters ignores the tendency of governments and police to want to curb and stifle protest, and is not in any event equivalent to the experience of being corralled for many hours.

The puppetistas, as they call themselves, argued that chicken wire, chain, pipes, rags and bottles were also the makings of puppets and that the arrests were merely an attempt to stifle protest.

The chief executive of the convention, William D. Harris, said the Republicans would not stifle protests.

And though fear and an inured tolerance of hardship tend to stifle protests, there are reports of strikes at some Belarusian plants.The country's Soviet-style command economy was never efficient and could be sustained only by foreign credit and huge Russian subsidies in the form of cheap energy and the ability to buy discounted Russian oil and sell on refined products at a markup.

While the rules state that people arrested at protests can be exonerated if found to be possessing items "legitimately," or for never using the items violently -- intensive searches and arrests could nevertheless stifle protests.

MOSCOW, July 6 (Reuters) - Russia's lower house of parliament gave preliminary approval on Friday to a law that would brand many rights and campaign groups "foreign agents", a move opponents say is an attempt to stifle protests against Vladimir Putin.

Since the Umbrella Movement took off, the government has stifled protest and punished democracy activists, according to human rights agencies.