Sentence examples for task of quelling from inspiring English sources

He helps secure partner Joseph Yobo at his side, but he will also have the unenviable task of quelling Drogba's effectiveness here.

In the centre of the field they have nous and combativeness with Massimo Ambrosini, Andrea Pirlo, Gennaro Gattuso and the evergreen Clarence Seedorf, while Ignazio Abate will have the task of quelling Gareth Bale.

Wang Mang's armies were incapable of quelling these enlarged rebel groups.

Thus, it may be possible to develop novel broad-spectrum drugs that are capable of quelling the rising tide of quinolone resistance.

Yamadayev became head of the elite Vostok (East) division of Russian military intelligence, which was tasked with quelling separatist resistance in Chechnya.

"We're half the human race," Maud tells the inspector tasked with quelling the protest.

From a road overlooking the scene in the remote Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, 150 miles east of San Diego, officers from eight federal and state agencies -- brought together this past weekend as a task force to quell the increasingly frequent disturbances here -- restrained themselves from going in, fearful that they would be pelted with stones and beer cans, as they have been before.

The United Nations representative in the area, Mervyn Patterson, who heads a joint security commission with the task of ending armed clashes, found himself scrambling to quell the latest outbreaks.

"Because the Revolutionary Guard was assigned the task of controlling the situation, it took the initiative to quell a spiraling unrest," he said.

The British-educated General Jan Smuts had to quell a rebellion by Afrikaners who felt closer to Germany than Britain before he could begin the task of annexing the German colony of South West Africa, now Namibia.South Africa's equivalent of Vimy Ridge was Delville Wood, where one of the bloodiest engagements of the 1916 Battle of the Somme took place.

It has succeeded in quelling thousands of years of internal warfare.