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But more than silence about Kuchma's actions results.
As a result, most women suffer in silence.
Stalemate and silence from the international community are usually incitements to extremism on one side, and extreme repression on the other.
The Fund has been notable mainly for its silence.
Silence was the order of the day.
After two days of Ahmadinejad’s meaningful silence, Khamenei felt forced to reject the US allegations publicly.
Chou came under fire in China after posing for a picture while holding the Taiwanese flag, and her public apology for doing so – made on YouTube – reminded many on the island of the degree to which China is willing to pressure people into silence.
For a senior politician at the center of a media firestorm, silence is the wrong response.
Juncker then took his case to the European Parliament, many of whose members had been openly critical of the tax deals – and Juncker’s silence – since the ICIJ released its findings.
With attacks on the press increasing, the old approach – prideful silence – no longer makes sense.
In that case, the generalized silence could indicate that all other central banks entertain the possibility of using that option, which would be most worrisome.
Silence is not always golden; for the sake of Europe’s future, the hush surrounding the common currency should be broken as soon as possible.
But the silence surrounding the natural process of menstruation must be broken, so that women and girls can obtain the sanitary products they need at affordable prices.
From Seoul to Sydney to San Francisco, citizens in democracies were angered at how Chinese visitors bullied into silence powerless Tibetans demanding minimal rights on behalf of their brethren in authoritarian China.
For 30 years, the Islamic Republic has relied on the heavy hand of the internal-security apparatus to silence dissidents and critics.
After a long silence, we are at last beginning to hear arguments in Europe and America to support Russian health care.
Each year, we included him in our annual census of imprisoned journalists, but attempts to verify whether he was even alive were always met with silence.
A United Nations peacekeeping force deployed in eastern Congo was supposed to have protected the region’s civilians; the peacekeeping force’s failure to safeguard the women has gone unremarked, in part, because a veil of silence surrounds what is occurring.
If the people with the power to end the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo maintain their silence and continue to do nothing, the perpetrators will grow only bolder in their destruction of women’s lives.
Many factors account for America’s reticence: anti-Semitism; anti-immigration ideology; silence by Christian churches; and US Jewish organizations’ reluctance to press the Roosevelt administration, lest they increase anti-Jewish sentiment.
But on August 6, Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally broke his silence on the issue, warning people to beware of the fake Gau Rakshaks (protectors of cows) who are trying to create social conflict.
If China is to honor its commitments on a wide range of international issues – trade, product safety, and environmental protection, to name just a few – and command genuine trust and respect at home and abroad, it will need to embrace people like Zhao, not silence them.
Most complaints about Putin focus on his efforts to silence voices of independent criticism.
Silence in response to Facebook’s announcement this week is tantamount to endorsing its dangerous new venture.
But women and gender-variant people are not sitting by idly as extremist governments seek to silence, control, and disempower them.
We cannot suffer in silence.
The intellectual response to deglobalization and the reversal of the historic process of convergence has been a near-deafening silence.
Autocratic regimes, in particular, are liable to use the pandemic as a pretext to arrest opponents and silence dissent.
The Silence of the Republican LambsNEW YORK – In the 1960s, the dissident poet Alexander Galich wrote about the mute complicity of Soviet apparatchiks in Joseph Stalin’s crimes, notably the Great Purges in which millions were detained or died in the Gulag.
“Those who were silent became the bosses, because silence is gold,” Galich wrote.
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