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Example sentences for: quash

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In the early 1940s, World Publishing Company, producer of Webster's New World dictionaries, obtained a ruling to quash the disclaimer requirement.
Rehnquist, who handles emergency matters for the Washington federal courts (and who, the papers note, is coming into town from Innsbruck, Austria, where he was teaching a summer course) is getting the case of what to do about subpoenas issued by Kenneth Starr to several members of President Clinton's Secret Service protective detail because yesterday a federal appeals court unanimously refused to quash them.
Jesse Helms, R-N.C., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has vowed to quash the nomination on the grounds that Weld is soft on drugs.
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.
The cover editorial says Russia is in surprisingly decent economic shape, but Yeltsin's infirmity could quash reforms and lead to "crony capitalism" or possibly even communism.