Most slaveholders forcibly suppressed the languages, customs, and cultures of the individuals they enslaved.
Public schools punished students who spoke French in the classroom and even the playground, suppressing the language that many Cajuns see as a binder of their culture.
The Japanese imposed a brutal regime on the whole peninsula from 1910 to 1945, suppressing the Korean language and culture, forcing men into the Japanese war effort and women into military brothels.
And the Republicans have long been trying to suppress the emotional language that arts gives us.
While defending the role Moldavian politicians in the 1840s had in shaping modern Romanian culture, Ibrăileanu argued that practices such as those of Heliade and Laurian carried the risk of "suppressing the Romanian language", and credited Alecu Russo, more than his successors at Junimea, with providing a passionate defense of spoken Romanian.
Importantly, bilinguals are not able to suppress the nontarget language to avoid interference.
The regional frustrations instead stem largely from the narrow-minded and self-defeating policies of Francoism, which suppressed the regional traditions and languages.
For decades Colonel Qaddafi denied and suppressed the existence of their culture, language and sect of Islam, and in Berber centers like Jadu, Nalut and Yafran, Berber symbols have been added to the rebel flag.
The forces of the French Revolution suppressed the university in 1797, but in 1834 the Belgian episcopate reestablished it as a French-language, Roman Catholic university.
... Democrats suppressed the (GOP) vote?
