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Example sentences for: squelching

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The New York Times leads with a Clinton administration report that condemns China's recent record on human rights, including China's squelching of the formation of a opposition party, religious expression and the freedom of the press.
Back to that Post lead for a moment: it features something "Today's Papers" applauds and would like to see more of: a clear explanation of the motivations of the story's unidentified sources: "officials who regarded the abandoned leads as the most promising in years and objected to what they described as the American role in squelching them."