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In 1957, a group of doctors asked Pope Pius XII whether it is permissible to use narcotics to suppress pain and consciousness “if one foresees that the use of narcotics will shorten life.”
The entity that emerged – the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) – was not trying to take down a brutal dictator, but to suppress nonbelievers and apostates and establish an extreme Sunni Islamist caliphate.
Though the US is finally emerging from an extended period in which potential output exceeded demand, high unemployment continues to suppress demand in Europe.
But, as much as they aspire to a leading role on the world stage, China’s leaders want to suppress dissent even more.
One troubling aspect of this change is that the new leader may feel the need to resort to brute force more frequently in order to suppress popular resistance.
And weaker sovereigns, legitimately fearing that such a scheme would suppress demand for their debt, would almost certainly block it.
For a long time, blasphemy laws were considered an unfortunate legacy of efforts in England during the religious struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to suppress deviant interpretations of scripture among Christians.
The democratic way of life, these writers argue, tends to destroy original thought and to suppress “high” culture, yielding a mediocrity that leaves citizens vulnerable to democracy’s enemies.
For 18 months after 9/11, he managed to suppress all dissent.
These countries urgently need structural reforms that can generate more inclusive economic growth and political institutions that channel, rather than suppress, legitimate popular demands.
Victory for Narendra Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a resurgent Taliban in the wake of the United States’ impending troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Pakistan’s continuing failure to negotiate with or suppress the Pakistani Taliban, point to a period of intense uncertainty and potential conflict.
Sharif has offered India olive branches of his own, and with good reason: Rapprochement with India is essential to strengthening his position in Afghanistan and improving his capacity to suppress violence at home.
Yet Germans, too, are unable to suppress such feelings.
Yet I have to admit that I still could not suppress a tiny, keenly felt pleasure when Germany lost to Spain.
The country took shape during the Middle Ages in a dialectical process of interfaith relations, and its integration into the European Union stemmed from an overwhelming consensus on the need to suppress the ghosts of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, following his death in 1975.
Of course, the memory of dictatorship does not always suppress nostalgia for quasi-fascist experiments.
Whereas the Catholic Church once tried to suppress science and reason, most notably in its condemnation of Galileo, it is now defending them, while conservative US politicians deny the facts.
It is all too easy for political leaders to ignore victims or suppress the truth in their quest for a peace deal.
For several years, the Bush administration tried to hide the facts from the public, deleting references to manmade climate from government documents and even trying to suppress statements by leading government scientists.
China, with its huge economic clout, has managed to get away with a lot; but its attempts to suppress those who draw attention to its human-right violations show that even it is not immune to such pressure.
Indeed, either the regime will resort to brute force to suppress the protests, thus abandoning any pretense of democratic legitimacy in favor of de facto military dictatorship, or it will find it impossible to beat the subversive genie of democracy back into its bottle, and Iran will increasingly open up and reform itself.
Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy take them to suppress bacteria that would otherwise overwhelm their weakened immune systems.
Monopolists and dominant firms, like Microsoft, can actually suppress innovation.
And the failure of global institutions to deliver ever-increasing prosperity has undermined the trust and confidence which in better times would serve to suppress the murderous demons of our age.
But that approach would also weaken America’s critical alliance with the South – albeit less severely – while doing nothing to suppress the North’s appetite for nuclear weapons.
The quantities traded through a legal mechanism would be insufficient to flood the market and suppress the price.
Moreover, the authorities have a difficult time tracking down and punishing people who spread this kind of "subversive" information--a term frequently used by the government to suppress political dissent--online.
Third, the government may be captured by one faction or another, and then use violent means to suppress rivals.
When the US tried to suppress the Bank’s call for a more balanced intellectual property regime – one more consonant with the interests of developing countries – the Bank prevailed yet again.
That Yeltsin’s government used tanks to suppress opposition from a legitimate, though deeply flawed, Duma and has been involved in what, under different circumstances, would have been viewed in the West as a genocidal war in Chechnya, was basically overlooked.
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