1. But others say the EPR might have been cooked up by state security officials trying to justify a crackdown on upstart peasants staging peaceful anti-government protests. 2. In a television broadcast, the two officials and other military figures joined Ter-Petrossian in justifying the crackdown, claiming that it had averted an attempted coup. 3. Jiang can still justify the crackdown without breaking into a sweat, as he showed in his joint news conference with Clinton. 4. Opposition leaders said the Aliyev government would not hesitate to stigmatize political enemies as Islamic fundamentalists to justify a crackdown. 5. Several prominent leftists have suggested that the security forces may have created the group to justify a crackdown in Guerrero. 6. Some diplomats, analysts and opposition sympathizers went as far as to suggest that Lavalas staged the palace attack to justify a crackdown on opponents. 7. The new study could help justify a crackdown on the most hazardous types of emissions, EPA scientists said. 8. The specter of North Korea is often used by the South Korean government to justify a crackdown. 9. Critics have suggested military hardliners provoked the violence in order to justify a crackdown on government opponents. 10. Critics have suggested military hard-liners provoked the violence to justify a crackdown on government opponents. |