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.