Sentence examples for the quelling of from inspiring English sources

In the following days, Mr. Abhisit oversaw the quelling of riots across Bangkok by thousands of troops.

Thant Myint-u, a Burmese historian, says the army is focused far more on internal politics and the quelling of ethnic insurgencies than on its sullied international name.

The sessions at Mrs. Girard's studio, number 1 Fifth Avenue, are more serious than those at the Dojo Club, more devoted to the quelling of burglars arid ravishers.

It is expected to draw protests in many countries after the quelling of the recent anti-Chinese riots in Lhasa.Hu Jia, a well-known Chinese human-rights campaigner, was given a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for subversion.

Bucareli's military accomplishments in Mexico included the quelling of Indian revolts in the north, the elimination of bands of criminals that had roamed freely throughout the country, and the construction of forts at Acapulco, Perote, and Acordada.

Members of the military who took part in putting down the demonstrations were given souvenir watches with a picture of the Gate of Heavenly Peace and inscribed with the words "June 89 to Commemorate the Quelling of the Turmoil".

But while it may seem impossible to believe that any one individual can stop the quell of aggression and violence, in fact it always comes down to the actions of one individual.

Stories emerged of those crucial hours, between the president's address and the successful quelling of the coup by 4am, that are sure to pass into the official mythology of the events.

For, as part of a wider effort to confront the past, Mr Jaruzelski now faces trial for his part in the bloody quelling of the 1970 shipyard strikes that helped launch Poland's organised, anti-communist opposition.Traitor or patriot?

This necessarily required the ruthless quelling of local populations, with layers of pacification added to the film that won't be found in the novel.

The ultimate quelling of Turner's rebellion, and our uncertainty as to its ultimate utility its status, in other words, as a genuine tragedy is precisely why it so immediately passed into the haunted realm of national myth.