Meanings of crushed all opposition in English

Bossuet as bishop, as thinker, and as adviser of Louis XIV, had crushed all opposition to orthodoxy.

The Taoiseach's relentless affability crushed all opposition during his first term in government, forcing a rethink for all concerned.

Presiding over a repressive, paranoid and hermetic regime, he crushed all opposition -even of the most moderate hue.

They were a gigantic combination of capital, which had crushed all opposition, and overthrown the laws of the land, and was preying upon the people.

It represented the meteor-like rise of a great military power, which crushed all opposition, and introduced among mankind the new idea of a centralised world-empire.