Sentence examples for suppressing violence from inspiring English sources

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Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images 7.52pm BST Suppressing violence?

"It's surprising that this would happen after Anemone's tactics have been developed, which are designed to control crowds while suppressing violence,' the former official added.

Four years after the department was accused of acting lawlessly in suppressing violence in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, dozens of officers, some from an elite unit, have been interviewed by the F.B.I. or faced subpoenas to testify before federal grand juries.

But even as the police make further inroads in suppressing violence in East New York, Brooklyn, and South Jamaica, Queens, neighborhoods with an outsize share of violence, there is a sense of frustration among police officials that their results have not quelled such criticism.

This perverse use of pacifism is connected to the way a term like "pacification" can be employed in military usage to describe a violent process of suppressing violence, as when an enemy territory is "pacified" by killing or disabling the enemy.

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They pulsed with sexual longing and barely suppressed violence.

At other times, Mr. Trump's rallies thrum with barely suppressed violence.

What Wilson captures well, however, is a sense both of repressed sexuality and of suppressed violence inside Staverton.

Mr. Mandela said Mr. de Klerk would announce a comprehensive plan next week to suppress violence and to arrest those responsible.

Dangerous men glaring behind the wheels of giant trucks loaded with timber charge down slippery highways, and the air crackles with a barely suppressed violence.

The British scabrousness and barely suppressed violence is gone, and the Scranton office — brighter and noisier, with more posters, parties, and pep — is Slough on Zoloft.

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