"crush" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- General Jaruzelski moved to crush Solidarity and in 1981 he declared martial law.
- In 1981, the regime imposed martial law to crush Solidarity, but it stayed alive underground.
- "This is a man who, back home, is a stalwart doctrinarian who favored the bloody use of force to crush Solidarity."
- Much has changed since General Jaruzelski used martial law to crush Solidarity in 1981.
- However, he intended all along to crush Solidarity.
- Party officials recall the complete military support General Jaruzelski was given by the army when he imposed martial law to crush Solidarity in 1981.
- In December 1981 he was the tough-minded Communist boss who imposed martial law to crush Solidarity, the grass-roots labor movement.
- The union-backed candidate was nominated by General Jaruzelski, the leader of those who engineered the imposition of martial law essentially to crush Solidarity.
- The ruling party is the weakest of any in the bloc, though it had sufficient power to crush Solidarity by armed might.
- "We had not expected the mass character of the movement," says Jaruzelski, who tried to crush Solidarity with tanks in December 1981.
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