1. quashing - Noun
2. quashing - Verb
of Quash
Source: Webster's dictionaryChina has been tightening its grip on Hong Kong for years, and on Thursday, it to allow its strict security agencies to operate more widely and openly in the city, quashing the liberties of its residents. Source: Internet
Cheney also made clear she wants House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to be the next GOP speaker, quashing any speculation she would try to leapfrog McCarthy. Source: Internet
But critics believe it is aimed at quashing dissent and will inevitably erode freedoms under the “one country, two systems” formula agreed to when Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997, an event that also sparked an exodus. Source: Internet
Chinese pro-democracy activists who traveled to Taiwan to observe its presidential election said Sunday that the re-election of independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen gave them cause for hope despite Beijing's quashing of dissent on the mainland. Source: Internet
For Slotkin, watching GOP leaders brazenly undermine the legitimacy of the ballot box has lent that much more urgency to quashing the beefs within her own tribe. Source: Internet
How Cuba and Uruguay are quashing coronavirus: As coronavirus cases soar in the US, Brazil and other countries in the Americas, some countries have found strategies to contain the virus and limit deaths. Source: Internet