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It means comments that have attracted some attention will get quashed before those that everybody already realized weren't worthwhile.

However, if all they want is an indentured servant, that will get quashed when the green card arrives.

That an elected Republic was overthrown by an invasion, much like if the American Revolution had been quashed by the British.

There were people thinking about security in the 1970s, but the proposals were quashed.

Scandals are being brought to light and quashed to a point where even untouchable edifices of the US hegemony are feeling the heat.

There have been a few attempts by the government to speed up ACH transfers, but banking lobbyists have successfully quashed the attempt each time.

They quashed all powerful opposition to this pretty brutally.

I agree that is baffling the way interesting questions are always getting quashed.

That does absolutely nothing to sell me on your product, but instead makes me acutely aware that you see them as a threat which needs to be quashed.

The system is now so thoroughly stacked against them that any attempt at radical change - whether it's passive through the political system or more active through protests or at worst a revolution - will be very rapidly quashed.

Also, joining the debate team and getting quashed repeatedly the moment I stepped above Novice rank helped sandblast apart any lingering arrogance I might've had.

That was quashed by Northern industrialists.

Or maybe QA found the folder + the connection to China, but it was quashed by management for "strategic reasons".

And whether it does or doesn't, in no sense are anyone's "rights" quashed here.

The practical upshot of this is that freedom of speech can be quashed with libel laws and a judiciary that could hardly be described as "independent of the government".