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Example sentences for: quash

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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.
When Communist dictator Josip Broz Tito took over in 1945, he attempted to quash Serbian nationalism . He preached that there was no room for ethnic differences in the class struggle.
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 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."
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.