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Busy with the Sochi Olympics and wary of an international debacle, Russian President Vladimir Putin maintained almost complete public silence as Ukraine’s crisis reached its bloody crescendo.
Is this the Hollywood equivalent of a police officer’s “blue wall of silence,” or is there something more clinical at work?
Can one blame voters for being suspicious of the silence of the political majority, and even for being taken in by the fringe's blustering?
The loud cheering that has greeted past humanitarian aid pledges has given way to a shameful silence.
The gray, dead silence of night (guards peer in voyeuristically through a slot in the door), the sudden, disembodied shrieks of prisoners, shrieks of distress and rage, the distant rattles and clangs of prison bolts: all make sleep impossible, or so restless as to be a torment.
Tanzania’s Illiberal TiltJOHANNESBURG – During a recent phone call with a Tanzanian journalist and human rights activist whom I know well, many of my questions were met with uncharacteristic silence.
But plans for such a two-track Europe can advance only if Merkel can overcome German nationalists who want to break up the single currency, and only if Macron can silence integrationist zealots in Brussels who want to force all EU countries to join the eurozone.
Almost every Arab ruler at one time or another attempted to silence the station by closing its local bureau and pressing the Qatari rulers to muzzle its freewheeling journalists.
So far, Russia, a country of little moderation, has alternated between rampant discussion or absolute silence and self-deception about Stalin.
Nothing can excuse the seeming indifference displayed by our worldwide silence.
Dictators everywhere silence journalists in the name of “national security” by charging those who would investigate their regimes with treason, subversion, or espionage.
Indeed, perhaps the most dismaying aspect of the Snowden story has been the relative silence of other news outlets, in Britain and America, as the national-security state literally comes to the Guardian’s door.
Do other British publishers really believe that silence will protect them from the slippery slope?
Dr. Jiang, traumatized and anguished, nonetheless kept his silence.
As the National People's Congress was meeting, Dr. Jiang broke his silence by writing a long, heartfelt appeal to the leaders of China.
Without deference to or fear of the Party, Dr. Jiang castigated China's leaders for the way that they "mobilized all sorts of propaganda to fabricate lies and used high-handed measures to silence the people across the country."
How can the US exert pressure on Israel to engage in serious negotiations with the Palestinians, or to refrain from attacking Iran, when it offers encouragement – if only through public silence – to Israeli military intervention in Syria?
Of course, most Japanese politicians, media commentators, and academics understand the need for this stance, and the Japanese trait of putting a lid on troublesome issues reinforces this silence, compounding all problems in foreign policy.
Criticizing Japan's silence need not undermine the Japanese-US strategic alliance.
But what can shake Japan's political class out of its silence?
In this atmosphere of public silence, the virtually vacant public space is filled with odd voices that are not intended for public consumption.
In such cases, silence may be wiser than speculation.
To label a wealthy critic of extreme inequality as a hypocrite amounts to an ad hominem attack and a logical fallacy, intended to silence those whose voices could make a difference.
The silence of the RBI’s governor, Urjit Patel, reduced him to a lamb.
Despite its silence, there are hints that China views this process with approval.
Prime Minister Hun Sen, East Asia’s longest-serving non-royal ruler, has used his power to silence critics and close outspoken media outlets, including one independent newspaper, the Cambodia Daily.The CPP has also expelled the National Democratic Institute, a US-based nonprofit that focuses on rights and democracy, and detained political challengers.
We condemn governments that silence, imprison, and even kill writers and journalists.
It is a part, I suppose, of the urban, middle-class northern European dream – the pursuit of the sun by day and silence by night.
But the Commission does have a voice with which to rally people, and it is for their silence that Barroso and his fellow commissioners are being rebuked.
The final pointer of the UK election may partly reflect the vacuum in national leadership that such silence epitomizes.
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