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Instead, they repress, censor, silence and even imprison the moderates and appease the religious radicals.
The fragile rapprochement between the US and Russia may not hold, particularly if the US again insists – breaking its recent helpful silence – that Assad has no place at the negotiating table.
Mr. Trichet’s silence at the May ECB press conference on the rising euro could be a tacit acknowledgement of this new reality.
Historians and others who venture to break the silence are lambasted as traitors to the black cause.
And they had been willing to overlook growing evidence of Trump’s sexual hijinks during his marriage to the first lady, Melania (including apparent payoffs to a porn star and others for silence), in exchange for policy influence and appointments of social conservatives to the Supreme Court and throughout the federal judiciary.
After all, one of the reasons Chile’s right hasn’t won an election since 1990, when democracy was restored, has been its silence regarding Pinochet’s crimes and financial misdeeds.
The response, at least at the time of this column’s writing, has mostly been deafening silence.
According to him, nothing would be more dangerous than to impose an artificial silence on a question that is boiling under the mask of political correctness.
Indeed, Kuchma seems to have torn a page from Boris Yeltsin's 1996 campaign manual, employing strong-arm tactics to intimidate and silence the opposition, as well as a tainted privatization process to buy support from Ukraine's powerful and corrupt oligarchs.
There was silence, perhaps from shock, onstage.
Moreover, in her description of our evolution, Fisher notes that males who could tolerate long periods of silence (waiting for animals while in hunt mode) survived to pass on their genes, thus genetically selecting to prefer “space.”
The first such signal came in the form of Obama’s silence when China seized the disputed Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines in July 2012.
The Cultural Revolution’s major figures, who wrought so much mindless violence, thus either maintain their silence or offer spurious self-defenses.
But this continuing silence by the guilty only transfers the costs to society as a whole, with Chinese life distorted by the weight of lies and evasions.
Perhaps the most disappointing parallel between Russia’s past and America’s present is what I call the silence of the rams: the refusal of those with influence to stand up and stop the insanity.
This outcry should mark the start of a global movement to lift the veil of silence that shrouds violence against women – which often begins at home – and protects the perpetrators.
But the reality is that when government fails, there is public outcry – and silence when it succeeds.
The silence that surrounded Holocaust survivors during the immediate postwar reconstruction of Europe has been replaced by gestures of contrition and reparation.
Political repression and the silence of Arab public opinion should worry America and its Arab allies, not reassure them, because it means that there is no way for the public to channel its interests, demands, and frustrations peacefully.
In the opening session, Obama’s special envoy, Denis Ross, was greeted with resounding silence when he conveyed to the participants his boss’s warm wishes.
Obama’s comments represent a break with the long-standing tradition of official American silence on European monetary affairs.
Their silence was tantamount to consent.
But, in fact, by then we were closer on Vietnam as well, for he had, after two decades of silence regarding the war, published his book In Retrospect , in which he repudiated his former justifications for the war, famously writing of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, “We were wrong, terribly wrong.”
Journalists now learn how to evade government guidelines by distributing and collecting information online, making it more difficult for propaganda bosses to silence the spread of information considered "sensitive."
Nearly 40 distinguished authors and poets have returned their prestigious Sahitya Akademi (Literary Academy) awards to protest the silence of the academy and other government bodies following the killing of three intellectuals by suspected Hindu hardliners.
And his silence in the face of it all confirms what many in India had feared: his economic sloganeering was merely a ploy to secure power.
The EU's silence in the face of his arrest and imprisonment is shameful.
Xi has said little about the China Dream since – and his silence has caused considerable trouble.
Read More from "Zone Defense"North Korea’s Step Too Far?BEIJING – After nearly a month of belligerent bluster from North Korea, China appears to have had enough, ending its silence about North Korea’s brinkmanship and suddenly roaring its disapproval of its ally’s reckless threats.
The political resurrection of KGB structures under Putin, and their efforts to silence dissent, has once again turned Russia into a country of defectors.
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