Military censors quash public discourse about it.

As testimony by servicewomen (and some men) reveals, this almost inevitably creates powerful incentives to quash investigations.

The Cakraningrats agreed to help the Dutch quash the 1740 rebellion in Central Java after the Chinese massacre in 1740.

In the 1950 s, Japanese ministers and industrialists sometimes relied on nationalist elements of Yakuza groups to quash unions and socialists.

The country is at a stalemate the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al Assad s regime, and Assad s forces are unable to quash the resistance.

That fight is not over, but after my intervention, Moscow's authorities must take into account the public's negative attitude to their effort to quash this publication.

TEL AVIV Syria s crisis is now a year old, with close to 10,000 people, mostly civilians, dead and no end in sight. The country is at a stalemate the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al Assad s regime, and Assad s forces are unable to quash the resistance.

The Kremlin is seeking more than the annexation of Crimea and control over the Donbas rust belt its aim is to prevent Ukraine from going West, force it to turn East, and quash any risk within Russia s wider orbit of further revolutions like the one that brought down Yanukovych.

It is to be hoped that the combination of measures by the Palestinian Authority and the return of relative calm will make it unnecessary for the Israeli Defence Forces to use the unlimited discretion that they have reportedly been given to take intrusive military action to quash attacks against Israelis from Gaza.

2.4 On 18 April 1994, the author lodged an application through a solicitor and a barrister in the proceedings for change of custody, requesting the court, in accordance with article 240, paragraph 1, of the Organization of Justice Act, to quash and declare void the actions taken since the time when the summons should have been issued.