Sentence examples for were suppressed from inspiring English sources
verb
To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
- Political dissent was brutally suppressed.
Islamic institutions were suppressed.
The doubts of intelligence experts were suppressed.
Indian languages and native religions were suppressed.
The Chechen language and culture were suppressed.
After some hard fighting, the rebels were suppressed.
After a few months, the protests were suppressed.
In Chicago, for two months anarchist newspapers were suppressed and trade union meetings banned.
Elected authorities were persecuted and detained, social organisations were suppressed and their members detained and jailed".
But they were suppressed in the late 19th century, as Japan built a modern nation.
Six of its seven issues were declared obscene, and were suppressed.
Paine was charged with seditious libel, and everywhere his ideas were suppressed and his followers persecuted.
