In another part of video, Nasrallah also praises the Iranian regime for quelling protests after the presidential election in June 2009.

Repeated demands from Nur Muhammad Taraki, president of the DRA, for Soviet military assistance in quelling the revolt, prompted a series of secret Politburo meetings.

Spending cuts, he argues, would restore credibility to Britain s public finances, thereby quelling the anxieties of businesses, investors, and consumers about future tax increases and inflation.

Zeyad posts a video showing Iraqi Security Forces raiding a small town in Iraq in a scene reminiscent of Saddam's violent quelling of an uprising in 1991.

What would be said if the British government had bombed Belfast, or if the Spanish government bombed Bilbao, on the pretext of quelling the IRA or the ETA?

As Deng had crushed the protestors in Tiananmen Square in June of 1989, Hu had proven himself to be firm and resolute in quelling anti Beijing riots in Lhasa, Tibet, two months earlier.

While the regime gradually succeeded in violently quelling the momentum of the opposition Green Movement, the country s deep internal rifts both among political elites as well as between government and society are far from being reconciled.

Secondly, the use of force must aim at a lawful purpose, such as effecting the lawful arrest of a person suspected of having committed an offence, preventing the escape of a person lawfully detained, defending a person from unlawful violence, self defence, or an action lawfully taken for the purpose of dispersing a demonstration or quelling a riot or insurrection.