Sentence examples for violently crushed from inspiring English sources

Now China has erupted in its biggest political storm since the Tiananmen democracy movement was violently crushed in 1989.

The party of Abraham Lincoln had been violently crushed in the years after the Civil War by terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan.

Throughout the year of his presidency, protesters who opposed him were violently crushed by the police and by Muslim Brotherhood members.

He stepped aside in 1988 in the face of a nationwide popular uprising that was violently crushed by the military, which instituted the current, equally repressive government.

He wrote himself into the history of the March 1st Movement of 1919, when Korean protests against Japanese imperial rule were violently crushed.

November 17, known here as 17N and named after the date of a 1973 student protest violently crushed by the junta's tanks, mocked successive Greek governments' haplessness.

In July this year, he was given the death sentence for his role in violently crushing the uprising.

Lukashenko, a Soviet-style dictator, sent security forces to violently crush an opposition rally after disputed presidential elections in December.

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who is under heavy criticism from the West for violently crushing protests in his country, welcomed the new cabinet.

"The lack of action by the E.B.U. and the international community is giving the authorities carte blanche to continue violently crushing dissent without consequence," said Max Tucker, Amnesty International's Azerbaijan campaigner.

The junta, which has ruled Myanmar for the past two decades, continues to face criticism and new economic sanctions from abroad a month after violently crushing huge antigovernment demonstrations that were led by tens of thousands of Buddhist monks.