Sentence examples for suppress discontent from inspiring English sources

He could allow some political competition, which risks unravelling the system, or he could try to suppress discontent and risk being ostracised in the West and hated at home.Mr Putin, who dislikes making radical decisions, seems to want to sit it out and leave it to his aides to defuse the tension.

For example, instead of talking about the Burmese or Iranian governments as 'restoring order', an authentic journalist is more likely to talk about those governments as suppressing discontent.

One concludes that Russians think not in terms of consent and opportunity, but of empires and enforced unions with barely suppressed discontents roiling just beneath the surface that any moment can threaten the entire edifice.

Understating inflation does not suppress the discontent it causes.

The military arms of all-powerful political authorities in New Delhi have been used to suppress regional discontent.

It also added a new and unexpected wave of protesters opposing the ruling military council's efforts to retain power and its tactics for suppressing public discontent.

William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, accused the Iranian regime of "shameful hypocrisy" in praising the protests in Cairo while suppressing similar discontent at home.

After knowing him for a while, I wondered if the discontent and suppressed anger that sometimes showed on his face were the result of having to do an extra job, one unequal to his talents.

But for now the party's strongest reaction to reports of rural discontent is to suppress them.

BEIJING — China's central bank announced on Saturday that it was raising interest rates for the second time in about two months in what appears to be a long-term campaign to suppress inflation as many ordinary Chinese express discontent with rising consumer prices.

Yet the governor would be advised to allow freedom of speech to prevent and diminish discontent among the subjects, and has no reason to suppress ideas which are unrelated to his governance, for instance the Copernican doctrine of heliocentrism.