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Example sentences for "suppression"

Lexicographically close words:
suppresse; suppressed; suppresses; suppressing; suppressio; suppressions; suppressive; suppressors; supprest; suppurate
  1. This venture at first proved highly successful, but in 1823 the paper's outspoken criticisms of the East India Company led to the expulsion of Buckingham from India and to the suppression of the paper by John Adam, the acting governor-general.

  2. The rebellion marks an important epoch in the history of the protectorate as its suppression definitely substituted European for Arab influence.

  3. Eliot, "the coast was a protected Arab state; since its suppression it has been growing into a British colony.

  4. In July 1890 representatives of the powers assembled at Brussels had agreed on common efforts for the suppression of the slave trade.

  5. This portion of the Path is indeed quite simple, and would require no commentary were it not for the still constantly repeated blunder that Buddhism teaches the suppression of all desire.

  6. Suppression of the Monasteries and Pilgrimage for Grace.

  7. He believed in all dreams, railroads, the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of balloons.

  8. Add the suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved.

  9. The silence of Mother Barat, or the suppression of her letters to Mother Duchesne, if it really took place, is a mystery which will probably never be explained.

  10. Defn: Omission; as, the suppression of a word.

  11. Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

  12. Defn: The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years.

  13. Defn: A retention or suppression of urine.

  14. The extravagances and vices of the later Templars, however, finally led to the suppression of the order by the Council of Vienne in 1312.

  15. Defn: The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.

  16. Obesity or an overfat condition will cause an early suppression of the menses which may result in a fruitless marriage.

  17. An Act for the suppression of Betting Houses,” 16 & 17 Victoria, cap.

  18. The suppression of Gaming-houses in race towns, and in other places out of the Metropolitan Police District, is to be effected under the common law, and under the enactment of Statutes different from the Metropolitan Police Act.

  19. Suppression and revival—Rage for them in Queen Anne’s reign—Lotteries for public purposes—Leheup’s fraud.

  20. Following closely on the suppression of the rising in Griqualand came the Basuto War, occasioned by the refusal of Morosi and his son Dodo, chief of the Baphutis, to pay the hut tax.

  21. For the suppression of the Polish Insurrection a bronze medal, 1⅟₁₆ in.

  22. This I am the more inclined to, as the suppression or concealment may possibly involve you in embarrassment hereafter, since it is uncertain how many, or who, may be privy to the contents.

  23. Less intransigent than Balzac, the executors allowed its five acts to be reduced to three, and a considerable amount of suppression and remodelling to be operated by a professional playwright, Adolphe Dennery.

  24. Less happy in indicating a remedy than in branding an evil, the novelist naively held that France had only to adopt his doctrine of absolute rule for the suppression to become a fact.

  25. He also divided the town into twelve portions, and placed at the head of each a duke of his own creation, charged with the suppression of treason and the protection of the gates.

  26. Later, when the disturbances were at an end, he proposed to the Estates the establishment of Lutheranism and the suppression of Catholicism, as we shall see in the sequel.

  27. Neither press nor politicians dare to condemn these strikes or to demand their suppression because the workingmen hold the balance of power and can use it for the success or defeat of either party.

  28. I consider that the complete suppression of this fable, unless we replace it with some like poetical fancy, can do nothing but harm to the child's nature.

  29. Those who were eager for suppression appear to have been influenced by the desire to avoid scandal; and the notion was widespread, for Moore, after the affair, was congratulated on having "saved the country from a pollution.

  30. He worked methodically and phlegmatically, steeling himself to a grim suppression of regret.

  31. Every Minnesotian's heart swells with pride whenever mention is made of the grand record of the volunteers from the North Star State in the great struggle for the suppression of the rebellion.

  32. It was during this critical period in the great struggle for the suppression of the Rebellion that one of the most fiendish atrocities in the history of Indian warfare was enacted on the western boundaries of Minnesota.

  33. At one stroke they decreed the suppression of all liberties in opposition to theirs; the fallen middle classes were not to be allowed to meet, or to vote, or to have the freedom of the press.

  34. The Confederation may also enact penalties for the suppression of press offenses as directed against it or its authorities.

  35. Nevertheless, the cantons, by law, may enact measures necessary for the suppression of abuses.

  36. Finally they settled upon "The Society for the Suppression of Unladylike Conduct.

  37. Call it 'The Society for the Suppression of Young Men.

  38. Not a soul in the trenches, one would think, who is not caught up into a mood of comradeship and self-suppression which amounts almost to exaltation.

  39. It has grown up like callous shell round two fine ideals--suppression of the ego lest it trample on the corns of other people, and exaltation of the maxim: "Deeds before words.

  40. The price which was paid for them was the suppression of every vestige of liberty, the conscription, and the Continental blockade.

  41. Since the suppression of the Neapolitan constitutional movement in 1821, the Carbonari and other secret societies of Italy had lost nothing of their activity.

  42. The entrance to the Morea had been won; the very shadow of a Greek government had disappeared, and the definite suppression of the revolt seemed now to be close at hand.

  43. The Conference of Ministers at Carlsbad, which in the memory of the German people is justly associated with the suppression of their liberty for an entire generation, began and ended in the month of August, 1819.

  44. All parties in the French Chamber, whether they condemned or approved the suppression of Neapolitan liberty, censured a policy which had kept France in inaction, and made Austria supreme in Italy.

  45. The fanaticism of the clergy was excited by a law partly ratifying the suppression of monasteries begun by Joseph Bonaparte; the enactments of the Cortes regarding the censorship of religious writings threw the Church into open revolt.

  46. Without this engine for the suppression of all mental independence the priesthood of Spain conceived its cause to be lost.


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