quash

Examples of quash in the following topics:

• The Decline of Union Power

  • The kind of independent-minded young workers who sparked the dramatic rise of high-technology computer firms have little interest in belonging to organizations that they believe quash independence.

• Roosevelt's Progressivism

  • Progressives like Roosevelt also bitterly attacked what they perceived as elitist, powerful, and dangerous forces, such as political machines and large corporations called trusts, which were perceived as unfair and illegal business ventures designed to quash natural market competition and production.

• Jackson and the Democratic Party

  • They supported the Independent Treasury (the Jacksonian alternative to the Second Bank of the United States) not as a scheme to quash the special privileges of the Whig monied elite, but as a device to spread prosperity to all Americans.

• Counterculture

  • In an effort to quash the movement, government authorities banned the psychedelic drug LSD, restricted political gatherings, and tried to enforce bans on what they considered obscenity in books, music, theater, and other media.

• Productive vs Unproductive Threads

  • Be wary of quashing threads prematurely, however.