"suppress" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Its objective was to suppress piracy based in the city of Mahdia, but the siege was unsuccessful.
- The navy was used to suppress piracy and protect merchant shipping.
- Part of his time was taken up with suppressing piracy.
- The buyer apparently was a Persian prince who wanted to use her to suppress piracy in the Gulf.
- England agreed to suppress piracy in the Caribbean.
- By this time he had appointed a lieutenant to suppress piracy, whose negligence had led to an increase in their activity.
- She next cruised in the West Indies where she helped suppress piracy, into 1826.
- After a difficult struggle, he succeeded in suppressing piracy.
- He was on the lookout for a site for a naval station that would help suppress piracy in the Caribbean.
- I said that we couldn't realistically expect to suppress piracy.
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