Thesaurus / suppression
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During India’s state elections, Logically worked with the Maharashtra Cyber police and the state’s election commission to identify online disinformation that could lead to voter suppression.
HE’S FIGHTING QANON WITH SUNLIGHTNICK FOURIEZOSSEPTEMBER 6, 2020OZYWe’ve got racism issues in this country and these other issues of gun violence and voter suppression.
LEVI STRAUSS’S CHIP BERGH ON WHY HE’S TAKING HIS MOST DIRECT STANCE YET AGAINST STRUCTURAL RACISMELLEN MCGIRTSEPTEMBER 1, 2020FORTUNEBecause many states block people with felony records from voting, the reality that justice is not in fact blind drives voter suppression.
LEVI STRAUSS CEO: WE CAN’T SOLVE RACIAL INEQUALITY IF GUN VIOLENCE AND VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT PERSISTJAKEMETHSEPTEMBER 1, 2020FORTUNEHowever, in 2013, the Supreme Court voted to invalidate certain parts of that act, opening the door to voter suppression.
51 YEARS LATER, THE CUYAHOGA RIVER BURNS AGAINWES SILERAUGUST 28, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEMore quantitatively — and related — fire suppression in California is big business, with impressive year-over-year growth.
THEY KNOW HOW TO PREVENT MEGAFIRES. WHY WON’T ANYBODY LISTEN?BY ELIZABETH WEILAUGUST 28, 2020PROPUBLICAPlus, residents of other states, including Oregon, Colorado and California, emailed dozens of complaints to the board about what they viewed as voter suppression tactics.
FOR ELECTION ADMINISTRATORS, DEATH THREATS HAVE BECOME PART OF THE JOBBY JESSICA HUSEMANAUGUST 21, 2020PROPUBLICAToday, 100 years since the 19th Amendment was passed, we still see acts of voter suppression seeking to keep these voters from the polls, in particular for the upcoming, critical presidential election.
MELINDA GATES, AI-JEN POO, AND 9 MORE WOMEN ON WHAT THE 19TH AMENDMENT’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY MEANS TO THEMEHINCHLIFFEAUGUST 18, 2020FORTUNEThat said, there is now a flurry of lawsuits, judicial rulings, decisions by election officials at the local and state levels, and claims of voter fraud and voter suppression that can be a bit of minefield to wade through.
FIVE WAYS TRUMP AND GOP OFFICIALS ARE UNDERMINING THE ELECTION PROCESSPERRY BACON JR. (PERRY.BACON@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)AUGUST 11, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThe recent law passed by the Spanish Cortes for the suppression of religious houses, has been strictly enforced here.
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO BRAZILMARIA GRAHAMHe desired neither the suppression of hell nor of the guillotine for the disposal of sinners and assassins.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, HIS LIFETHOPHILE GAUTIERWORDS RELATED TO SUPPRESSION
- abstemiousness
- abstinence
- caution
- coercion
- command
- compulsion
- confines
- constraint
- control
- coolness
- curtailment
- economy
- forbearance
- grip
- hindrance
- hold
- inhibition
- limitation
- moderation
- prevention
- repression
- reserve
- restriction
- secretiveness
- self-denial
- self-discipline
- self-government
- self-possession
- self-restraint
- silence
- suppression
- unnaturalness
- withholding
- clandestineness
- confidence
- confidentiality
- covertness
- dark
- darkness
- furtiveness
- hiding
- hush
- hypnotic
- isolation
- mystery
- narcotic
- opiate
- privacy
- reticence
- retirement
- seclusion
- secretiveness
- secretness
- silence
- solitude
- somnifacient
- somniferous
- somnific
- somnolent
- soporific
- stealth
- suppression
- surreptitiousness
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