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suppressing
verb
Present participle of suppress
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The PAP has been accused of suppressing opponents in the past.
It gave short shrift to the suggestion made by some Republicans that the report would increase the chance of terrorist attacks on America, pointing this out to be "an argument that could be used to justify suppressing the information forever".
Kiev's forces appeared to be laying down suppressing fire towards the town to help their comrades retreat.
That's not suppressing a dissenting view, it's what scientists call peer review".
In Scotland, the half of the population that supports UK-wide parties is now represented by just three MPs First past the post is a system that tends to produce Commons majorities by exaggerating party support in some places and suppressing it others.
While 20th-century censorship worked mostly by suppressing the information supply, in our own age armies of volunteer piece-workers such as China's "50 cent party" are paid to obfuscate hot issues by incessant and irrelevant blogging.
We soon forget their vices because essentially they are ordinary folks trying to survive in a harsh, foreign society that is intent on suppressing them.
I don't think any of us, when we were arrested, would have thought that a possible scenario at the end of this would be that the only people who face jail sentences are police officers for suppressing evidence".
In military terms, the Saudi security apparatus is probably capable of suppressing Isis on its own territory, just as it did with al-Qaeda a decade or so ago, but it is in no position to confront Isis at the ideological level.
If the Gardai again succeed in suppressing any violent street disorder, it will inflict a major blow on dissident republican morale.
It will be more like John Major's task of suppressing the Maastricht rebels, or Jim Callaghan's in managing a fissile Labour party.
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