7 sentences with 'suppress'
Example sentences and phrases with the word suppress and other words derived from it.
• « The narcotic would give him the illusion that he could breathe well and suppress his cough reflex. »
• « For practical political reasons, the Pope and various rulers were unwilling or unable to use force to suppress Protestantism at first, as seen in Charles V's failed attempts to curtail the spread of Lutheranism. »
• « If there was a silver lining, it was that rulers did all they could to suppress future outbursts of religiously inspired violence in the name of maintaining order and control. »
• « Thus, in this case, the cultural bias pitting European Christians against (perceived) non-European Muslims proved stronger than the pragmatic, conservative concern to suppress revolutions among European powers. »
• « In February 1848 in France, the unpopular King Louis Philippe unwisely attempted to suppress the gatherings of would-be reformers. »
• « The Iraq war thus became a costly military occupation rather than an easy regime change, and in the years that followed internal violence and US attempts to suppress Iraqi insurgents resulted in more than a million deaths (estimates are notoriously difficult to verify, but the death toll could actually be more than two million). »
• « Two types of anti-addiction drugs are being developed: those that block the effects of the drug (antagonists) and those that suppress the need to use (agonists). »