Gaddafi used police and mercenary forces to violently suppress the protest.

I would have thrown up then and there, but the moment my stomach began its first flip-flop, some powerful force suppressed it.

The advanced forces of the SS gruesomely suppressed the revolt within a few hours.

The force suppressed dissent prior to Fidel Castro's rise to power.

At times it has been tolerated as a force against the left, and at others ruthlessly suppressed.

The move was highly unpopular locally, and in 1928 the British used military force to suppress a popular uprising.

The French forces went on to take Timbuktu and suppressed a revolt in Macina.

Israeli forces violently suppress a peace rally in Jerusalem.

British forces, supported by 6,000 armed Jewish auxiliary police, suppressed the widespread riots with overwhelming force.

It empowered the President to deploy the armed forces to suppress organizations that deprived people of rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.