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Example sentences for: quash

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While holding out against lucrative trade concessions demanded by Wall Street and Hollywood, Zhu is offering to let American telecommunications firms own Chinese cell phone and Internet companies, which presumably would undermine China's ability to quash domestic dissent.
Time 's 20-page special report on Hong Kong reaches the same conclusions as all the other special reports on Hong Kong: The colony's residents are optimistic; corruption and crime will seep in from China; no one knows whether China will quash political freedom.
The NYT lead, also fronted by the WP , says that the Senate voted 50-47 to quash a health care bill backed by the Democrats.
The paper said the deal, which the United States is trying quash, could be worth up to $2 billion and represents "the zenith of transactions conducted by the Israeli Defense Ministry and China since the start of the decade."
One third of this force is said to be specially trained to quash riots.