It tries to repress the students' movement.

I couldn't stop myself from laughing.

Meanwhile, efforts to clamp down on protests have continued.

I could not subdue the desire to laugh.

Tom couldn't suppress his anger.

It was hard to resist the impulse to wring Tom's neck.

It was difficult to restrain myself from smothering Tom.

Yanukovych, failing to crush them with his security forces, simply fled.

Osman Orsal injured by a tear gas capsule.

By prosecuting critics as news fakers, the government can stifle legitimate dissent.

Yet Germans, too, are unable to suppress such feelings.

In the early 20 th century, empires could suppress restive populations.

For 18 months after 9 11, he managed to suppress all dissent.

To be sure, the Communists tried to repress Islam as a religion as they tried to repress all religions.

At the same time, people's irrational fears and secret desires could not be suppressed.

Creative individuals tend to leave societies in which there is strong pressure not to be different.

The Soviet leadership had relied then upon shootings and deportations to the Gulag to preempt opposition.

Erdoğan s supporters dismiss Western campaigns against Islamist terrorism as a ploy to repress Sunnis.

I managed to suppress a gasp when I saw him the man on the stretcher near the wall.

But there are concerns about the absence of a single compelling protest message, coming even from supporters of the cause. The protest message is fairly written in Oromo language, primarily focused on mobilizing people who dwell in the region.

Perhaps the princes believe that it is easier to kill terrorist criminals than to crush demands for social justice.

It is not difficult to beat down the Cannon , but it won't be easy to suppress the will of his 30 million fans.

All they think about is how to shut people up and oppress them.

This hopeful direction changed completely, however, when Deng Xiaoping revealed his desire for a violent crackdown.

A deliberative approach to engaging the public on other aspects of migration also could help quell anti migrant sentiment.

Some said that police brought cellphone signal blockers when they came in to suppress the protests.

This global political force cannot be suppressed by the Chinese state, or any national state.

The poetry in Befequadu s veins could not be bottled by state intimidation or stifled with the bars in a jail.

In the words of Wole Soyinka, books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

The Maldivian government locked down the parliament, cordoned off by security forces, and warned of a crackdown on protests.

In 1989, the Communists had managed to make illegal and contain, but not to stamp out, Solidarity.

Perhaps a military dictator, like Chile's Pinochet, could suppress the social and political unrest that arises in such conditions.

They will need to understand the evolutionary dynamics of resistant populations, and design strategies to suppress or exploit the adapted characteristics.

Whether individuals can repress and recover memories of traumatic sexual abuse has been especially contentious.

Neither mission was particularly successful, and by the end of 1137 the king appears to have abandoned attempts to put down the rebellion.

After its initial embarrassment by Twitter in 2009, the Iranian government was able to suppress the country s green movement in 2010.

For critics, imposing the state of emergency was motivated by authorities' desire to crack down on strikes and protests, rather than countering terror.

A group of Japanese broadcasters is speaking out about what they say is efforts by the government to restrict press freedoms in Japan.

Prisoners are not treated like people, and they're kept in constant fear, in order to subdue and suppress their willpower.

The decaying Soviet regime was unable to crush Russia s growing democratic movement it would take Vladimir Putin to do that a decade later.

The Chinese leadership has demonstrated many times that it can quell domestic dissent, but the unique scale of the Olympics will require round the clock vigilance.

As evidenced by the efforts of Russian authorities to clamp down on cyberspace activity, the government finds the trend of online political activism unnerving.

The Spanish company Ares Rights continues to issue copyright claims in what looks like an attempt to suppress criticism of the Ecuadorian government.

Now a group of herpetologists and invasive species experts is pushing to eradicate the rapidly reproducing toads before it s too late.

The remnants of Saddam's army were not pursued within Iraq, allowing him to crush the popular insurrection staged in the south, and remain in power.