Sentence examples for were forcibly suppressed from inspiring English sources

Bei Dao was in Berlin in June 1989 when protests in Tiananmen Square and elsewhere were forcibly suppressed by authorities.

For months, workers in Łódź had been in a state of unrest, with several major strikes having taken place, which were forcibly suppressed by the Russian police and military.

Not all crossed the ocean to better themselves and their families; many were forcibly carried here — their families torn apart, their social structures smashed, their languages suppressed — to labor without recompense for the benefit of their oppressors.

Some were forcibly evicted.

They were forcibly "outed".

Some young people were forcibly conscripted.

Forty people were forcibly ejected.

Thousands of villagers were forcibly resettled by the military.

Some Maori slaves were forcibly tattooed, then decapitated.

Many were forcibly conscripted, sometimes at gunpoint.

In 989, under Vladimir, Novgorod's inhabitants were forcibly baptized.