brutal suppression
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Spenser arrived in Ireland in 1580, during the brutal suppression of the Second Desmond Rebellion, and became a beneficiary of the plantations, through which confiscated Irish lands were granted to English settlers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
“This is yet another wave of brutal suppression of dissent and crude harassment of those who left the country and particularly those who have remained in Belarus,” Latushka said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
History shows that the brutal suppression of dissent leads to a build-up of popular discontent to a boiling point, with disastrous consequences.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2018
After brutal suppression under the Nazis, political satire returned in the 1960s and 1970s.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2017
Those who would remove crimes by removing the causes thereof, cannot, as a matter of course, sympathize with a plan of brutal suppression.
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
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