Miscalculating things at home is containable to a large extent, and totalitarian regimes excel in suppressing domestic unrest.

The Liberty affair reinforced a previously made British decision to suppress unrest in Boston with a show of military might.

His ferocity and outright brutality in suppressing political unrest had made him many powerful friends.

Per Soviet practice, the regiment was a politically reliable internal security force that could be deployed to suppress rebellion and unrest.

They denied the Indians the rights so recently won in the revolution, and frequently used the military suppress unrest.

The Army and police suppressed unrest in the refugee camps, where at least four Palestinians were killed.

Police officers and thugs hired by the authorities also have used force to suppress social unrest in the countryside.

The government has at times deployed army units to suppress violent unrest.

The emergency regulations were used to suppress political dissent as well as unrest, justifying more than 30,000 detentions without trial in four years.

Nuclear weapons have failed to suppress guerrilla warfare and social unrest, so a strategy of disarmament and resistance makes some degree of sense.