Sentence examples for successfully quashed from inspiring English sources

State and federal antitrust agencies have successfully quashed some mergers that looked like they would reduce competition, but the government can't possibly challenge every case.

Twice Jimmy has successfully quashed proposals lodged with the council, claiming the redevelopment could damage his own turreted dwelling, but it now seems a done deal, with Kensington and Chelsea ruling in favour of the latest set of Robbie's plans.

Over the past two years, the kingdom has undergone a major political transition, with the ouster of the well-established Crown Prince, who had successfully quashed most of Al Qaeda in the kingdom.

This may suggest that plans have been altered or, perhaps more likely, that Apple has successfully quashed the leaks of what would be the flagship new feature of the device.

Congress, fearful of angering Turkey, a key ally in the Middle East, has successfully quashed any resolution.

And then when all our righteous work was done, just like Peter, we would have successfully quashed the movement of the Spirit.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Ebert overrode the Independents and pressed for a national assembly, successfully quashing the USPD plan for oligarchic rule by the council.

Everything is full of vague and doomy imminence, and Mrs. Eszter sees her opportunity: if she can foment (or even manage) some kind of anarchy, blame the unrest on unnamed "sinister forces," and then successfully quash that unrest, she may attain her desire, to head the "tidy yard and orderly house movement".

Inspired by two strikes last October — one successfully quashing a Polish parliament bill banning abortion, the other drawing tens of thousands to protest violence against women and girls in Argentina — organizers in more than 50 countries have coordinated a day of global action, including strikes, rallies and other gatherings.

After successfully quashing attempts to expand federal gun control laws, the NRA has recently gone on offense, calling on the GOP-controlled Congress to pass a bill that would require state concealed-carry permits to be recognized nationwide.

If the firings happen, and Republicans in Congress don't roll up their sleeves and get some answers about Russia on their own, the public will have just watched the president use executive power to successfully quash an investigation into his own potential wrongdoing.