Ukrainians also eschewed the temptations of populism and extreme nationalism. The poor performance of the right wing Svoboda and Right Sector candidates which together won less than 2 of the vote should finally quash Russian assertions of a fascistic regime in Kyiv.

In the 1950 s, Japanese ministers and industrialists sometimes relied on nationalist elements of Yakuza groups to quash unions and socialists. The gangs then upheld classic Japanese virtues of manliness and loyalty and paid for mistakes by slicing off one of their fingers in atonement.

The Kremlin is seeking more than the annexation of Crimea and control over the Donbas rust belt its aim is to prevent Ukraine from going West, force it to turn East, and quash any risk within Russia s wider orbit of further revolutions like the one that brought down Yanukovych.

TEL AVIV Syria s crisis is now a year old, with close to 10,000 people, mostly civilians, dead and no end in sight. The country is at a stalemate the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al Assad s regime, and Assad s forces are unable to quash the resistance.

Yet the most important outcome of the scandal has been to highlight the remarkable strength, not weakness, of Brazil s legal and democratic institutions. The prosecutor and judge on the case have been allowed to do their job, despite the natural impulse of President Dilma Rousseff s government to quash the investigation.

It is to be hoped that the combination of measures by the Palestinian Authority and the return of relative calm will make it unnecessary for the Israeli Defence Forces to use the unlimited discretion that they have reportedly been given to take intrusive military action to quash attacks against Israelis from Gaza.

Corruption of a much greater magnitude there, implicating President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family, has gone untouched. A probe by Turkish prosecutors against Erdoğan in 2013 was clearly politically motivated (and driven by Erdoğan s foes in the movement headed by Fethullah Gülen, a self exiled Islamic preacher), which gave the government the cover needed to quash the investigation.

Similarly, my office defended the liberal weekly newspaper Novoe Vremya (New Times), which was being pressured by Moscow's city government on the pretext of a commercial dispute about a lease. That fight is not over, but after my intervention, Moscow's authorities must take into account the public's negative attitude to their effort to quash this publication.

2.4 On 18 April 1994, the author lodged an application through a solicitor and a barrister in the proceedings for change of custody, requesting the court, in accordance with article 240, paragraph 1, of the Organization of Justice Act, to quash and declare void the actions taken since the time when the summons should have been issued.

The 1994 Plano Real, a macroeconomic stabilization program, together with subsequent structural reforms, enabled Brazil finally to quash inflation and ride a wave of cheap global liquidity and surging Chinese demand for commodities. As the government attempted to direct these gains toward wealth redistribution, public expenditure rose and the social benefits system underpinned by so called acquired rights became increasingly rigid.