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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.
George W. Bush tried to quash the parody site www.gwbush.com, saying infamously, "There ought to be limits to freedom."
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.
One third of this force is said to be specially trained to quash riots.
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.