The 82nd's modest mission: maintain order and suppress resistance.

Further laws had the aim of suppressing resistance, especially armed resistance, to apartheid.

As the unrest continued, the Syrian government began launching major military operations to suppress resistance, signaling a new phase in the uprising.

Persecutions of individuals for religion in the first few years were rare, because the state initially was concerned strictly with suppressing armed political resistance.

The Japanese also moved to suppress resistance in the region.

The episode demonstrated the new national government had the willingness and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws.

They remind many of the hand-chopping and tongue-cutting methods used by Saddam's goons to suppress resistance.

However, they were also often used to supplement police power in suppressing Japanese resistance.

They are trained to suppress resistance to the regime, to break up riots, to ferret out guerillas and so forth.

Several weeks later, government troops were sent to Taiwan from the mainland to handle the crisis and to suppress any opposition or resistance to the government.