How to Use "squelch" with Example Sentences

1. Squelch mobile communication , they reasoned , and protesters wouldn 't be able to mobilize .

2. And that is why mr wen and his colleagues not only decry debate about the exchange rate abroad . They also squelch debate at home .

3. A political scandal surrounding german president christian wulff intensified tuesday as new information emerged that he tried to squelch media reports about his private business dealings .

4. And he has promised to encourage more open debate as speaker , giving the minority more freedom to introduce amendments and eschewing the sort of procedural tricks the democrats have used in recent years to squelch dissent and avoid awkward votes .

5. Hacked emails from an influential u. k.climate-science lab suggest that researchers there tried to squelch scientific challenges to what has become scientific consensus : that human beings are largely responsible for climate change .