Sentence examples for suppress the protest from inspiring English sources

Local security forces made up mostly of Han police officers tried to suppress the protest, and Uighurs soon began attacking Han civilians.

He ordered Russian troops to suppress the protests, but many refused and instead joined the protesters.

"Killing people on Ashura shows how far Khamenei is willing to go to suppress the protests".

Government security forces killed around 70 people in their effort to suppress the protests last year, according to human rights groups.

When the army refused his order to use force to suppress the protests, the president surrendered his office; his most senior general told the nation he had resigned.

The regime's attempts to use force to suppress the protests drew international criticism, and the regime failed to placate the opposition with its offers of concessions.

There have been repeated reports of Russian armament ships docking in Syria, although Moscow has always denied that they were carrying the arms used to suppress the protests.

At least one video showed skirmishes with pro-government militia men whom opposition web sites reported had been brought in to suppress the protests.

Now, as the Iranian government has cracked down to suppress the protests that erupted after the presidential election in June and devastated the reform movement, Ayatollah Montazeri uses religion to attack the government's legitimacy.

Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, said the intention was to get the government there to "understand that there is a time now for a political transition" and to send a warning not to suppress the protests harshly.

My political analysis had until then discounted any real belief – despite the long history of Anglo-Irish conflicthatthet the British government would countenance killing the people in order to suppress the protests.