The melamine scandal erupted in late 2008, however, only after government officials suppressed word of widespread poisonings so as to avoid sullying China's international image during the Beijing Summer Olympics.
The Constitution generally prohibits the government from suppressing words and images unless they are obscene.
Brain images showed that the hippocampus, an area of the brain that usually lights up when people retrieve memories, was relatively quiet when subjects tried to suppress the words they had learned.
I suppressed the word "hand," rid myself of everything but the act of concentration.
When you see the members of the Acme Muffineering team rolling through their formations, however, it is difficult to suppress a single word trying to bubble up through the mists of consciousness: Shriners.
If Facebook really wanted to make people experience unhappiness, suppressing "positive words" isn't going to do the trick.
The researchers hypothesized that participants were actually trying to suppress the related words during recognition, as it was irrelevant and unhelpful information in completing the recognition task.
Part B requires subject to complete 10 sentences with a nonsense ending word (and suppress a sensible one), giving measures of response suppression ability and thinking time.
In this task, bilinguals are faced with a particular difficulty compared to monolinguals: due to parallel activation of words from both languages, bilinguals have to suppress non-target language words that may pop up during the stages of lexical search and retrieval.
Ewing and his defenders always insisted that the guerrilla war had been uniquely cruel, and that General Order No. 11 had been a necessary measure – "an act of wisdom, courage, and humanity," in Schofield's words — to suppress the bushwhackers.
