The United States,the European Union, and others imposed damaging sanctions on Burma for suppressing democracy and human rights.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

So if you're going to discuss whether or not military conscription is equivalent to suppressing people's right to life, you shouldn't approach it that way.

所以如果你要讨论,征兵制度是否等价于压制人们的生命权，你不该这么说。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Milton explains that the Licensing Order of 1643 is ineffective, it's useless because, and I'm quoting here, " order avails nothing to the suppressing of scandalous, seditious, and libellous books, which were mainly intended to be suppressed."

弥尔顿解释说《出版管制法》毫无作用，一无是处，我引用他的话说原因“,因为这个管制法对控制诽谤性的，有煽动性的，中伤他人的需要被控制的书籍毫无用处“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The U.S.and EU have economic sanctions against Burma for suppressing democracy and locking up Aung San Suu Kyi along with more than 2,000 other political prisoners.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

An International Crisis Group report says that by suppressing peaceful outlets for the opposition to express opinions, the Thai government may actually encourage people to use violence.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Canadian Senator Sharon Carstairs says governments from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe are suppressing the rights of elected parliamentarians for offenses as small as promoting the views of those who elected them.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

"It sure looks like the way they are suppressing speech, the way they are suppressing crowds, they way in which people are being treated that there is some real doubt about I do not think we are in a position to say,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.14