1.   But Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin employed many of the same tactics he had previously used in peacetime to suppress opposition to his rule, Overy says.

2.   In a brutal quest to suppress all opposition in the population, they routinely hacked limbs from civilians and raped women.

3.   In his fifteen years as president, Saddam has ruled by ruthlessly suppressing all opposition.

4.   Its leader, Mazoka, said the arrests showed that governmental powers are being subverted to suppress opposition to Chiluba and a third term.

5.   Mubarak uses a state security apparatus that practices human rights abuses to suppress political opposition through harassment, detention and torture.

6.   President Abdelaziz Bouteflika needs to confront these festering issues and resist the temptation to suppress opposition through violent means.

7.   The first trial had come close enough to creating antiwar martyrs, and any notion that convictions would suppress opposition to the war was quickly dispelled.

8.   There were many branches of the security forces involved in suppressing opposition to apartheid.

9.   A U.S. congressman Thursday said Laurent Kabila is justified in suppressing political opposition because the new president of Congo needs time to set up a working government.

10.   Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has suppressed opposition and persecuted independent media, and several prominent opposition politicians have disappeared under hazy circumstances.