brutal suppression

Example Sentences

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“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

But some question how well the term is understood by Myanmar’s 51 million people after so many years of brutal suppression.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2015

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 De Leon, Daniel