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It is in part to drown out these competing impulses and to squelch despair that his lovers fling themselves into each other's arms.
Rather than squelch this story, DeLay went on television Saturday and when asked whether he was negotiating with Clinton answered, "There's nobody to negotiate.
But Gary Ruskin of the Congressional Accountability Project, a Ralph Nader-related organization that watches Congress, asserts that committee chairmen squelch the posting of drafts because, "If citizens figured out what was in some of these bills, there would be public outcry against them."
The Christian love doctors believe, against all evidence, that teen-agers can squelch their hormones and homosexuals their essences.
An essay urges England to withdraw its soccer team from the World Cup if it is unable to squelch the violence of hooligan fans.