On one occasion we quashed a conviction on the hearing, and upon that decision a great deal has been said.
For the defence it was urged, that the evidence was similar to that given before the Middlesex magistrates on appeal, after hearing which they quashed the conviction, and that the magistrate should dismiss the summonses.
The war was practically over, and though the King would have had his nephew raise a new life-guard, the Oxford Council quashed the design.
Rupert again proposed the voyage to the West Indies, but the suggestion nearly produced a mutiny, which the Prince only quashed by promptly breaking up the meetings of the disaffected.
Uther quashed the suggestion with the calm confidence of a man sure of his reason.
So he calls the opposition made by the enemies of God's people; which nevertheless, without an army or might on their side, was quashed by divine providence.
Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly, 6:3.
Others, again, he so quashedand bebumped, that, with a sound bounce under the hollow of their short ribs, he overturned their stomachs so that they died immediately.
To bruise is more than to break; he shall quash thy head to death; so he also quashed the heel of Christ; which would, had not his eternal power and Godhead sustained, have caused that he had perished for ever.
When the Lord Mayor had intelligence that Mansoul was in an uproar, down he comes to appease the people, and thought to have quashed their heat with the bigness and the show of his countenance.
The government had him tried, the jury found him guilty, but the House of Lords quashed the conviction and liberated him from prison in 1844.
There is a high and resplendent degree that renders toil easy, and responds to the commonest stimulants, so that enjoyment cannot be quashed without unusually unfavourable circumstances.
Justices, for obstructing the quay, was quashed with costs.
On the hearing of the assessment appeals, the rate was quashed by the Justices on the ground of unequal assessment.
After a lengthy review of the case it declared unanimously that the whole accusation against Dreyfus had been disproved, and it quashed the judgment of the Rennes court-martial sans renvoi.
At the general election in October he was again returned for Pontivy, but his election was quashed in 1878, and he was defeated on standing again.
The conviction was quashed on December 18 by the High Court.
Any question that might naturally come up of a profession for him, seemed to have beenquashed beforehand by the general notion of an immediate salary as the means to that end.
I need not acquaint my learned Reader, that in the Ides of March, Brutus destroyed Cæsar, and that Cicero quashed the Conspiracy of Cataline in the Calends of December.
The sentence of the court-martial wasquashed in England, but before the news arrived he was dead.
When the elections in Aberdeen were quashed by the law courts, as those at Montrose had been, the old constitution had been re-established, and Lord Archibald Hamilton now took up the cause of the burghs.
The design was nevertheless quashed for a time, the troops being brought to submit to Vitellius a little longer.
The motion was, however, quashed by a large majority, and another motion on the same subject was equally unavailing.
Ministers were also equally well supported in a proposal, made by opposition, for an inquiry into the causes of the disgraces which had attended the British arms in Holland: it was quashed at once.
Malcolm, the smuggler, and others of a similar stamp, sate upon the grand jury, and quashed all prosecution.
Parliamentary affirmation which is completely quashed by the passing of Mr Bradlaugh's Affirmation Act of 1888.
But doubt and scepticism tend to be quashed by the result, which must be admitted to be a very considerable success.
It is the most transparent invention I ever heard of, and it is a disgrace to your American courts that the thing was not quashed at once!
This farce has got to be quashed at once, and the sooner the better, so you may enter protest and file an application for hearing, or whatever your mode of procedure is in this country, at the earliest possible moment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quashed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crushed; quelled; repressed; smashed; smothered; squashed; stifled; subdued; suppressed
