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Those who filled Tahrir Square 16 months ago were silenced, and the expected transfer of power from the military to a civilian, democratic government was thrown into doubt.
If voters rejected “no deal” in favor of no Brexit, May’s hardline opponents would be silenced, and her position as Prime Minister would be secured until the 2022 election.
Our goal is to give voice to ordinary victims who have been silenced by fear and social pressure.
The reformers were silenced in the name of maintaining stability.
Slow growth has silenced the monetarists on the ECB’s Governing Council.
But, while Sanusi has been suspended, his corruption allegations cannot be withdrawn – and the public outcry that they have provoked cannot be silenced.
A diverse discussion would also have to include writers who have been completely silenced in China, such as Wang Lixiong, Tan Hecheng, Mo Jiangang, and Yang Jisheng.
But the recent clampdown has not deterred the opposition or silenced criticism.
The sooner the guns are silenced in Lebanon the better.
Indeed, recent data have effectively silenced hints by some Federal Reserve officials that the Fed should begin exiting from its current third (and indefinite) round of quantitative easing (QE3).
Their mandates vary, but the government’s message to them and others is clear: be critical of the Kremlin, and you will be silenced.
Along with President Bush, he would be acclaimed as a great leader, while voices of dissent and opposition would be silenced.
With critical voices silenced, consolidating unchecked power became easier and, in July 1959, Sukarno decreed the beginning of "Guided Democracy."
Those who dare to protest, such as Beijing University journalism professor Jiao Guobiao, are silenced.
One hopes that the war drums will be silenced through negotiation and mutual concessions.
And that debate is being silenced by state control of the media and the suppression of opposition.
And more often than not, when the messenger is silenced, so is the message.
They have also silenced the Social Democrat-led opposition, which has no better alternative to offer the country.
Growth in the Chinese auto sector has silenced the skeptics and exceeded even the most bullish expectations of third-party observers.
Protests faded, as their leaders were smeared, discredited, and silenced.
Whistle blowers would not be silenced, reporters investigated bad corporate actors, and investors were held accountable for their choices (leading them to act like Norway’s wealth fund).
They must underline the great danger posed for the health of both Russian society and the state when people who are acting in the public interest are silenced through murder.
Today, they are bullied, silenced, and tortured in places like Iran, Syria, China, and Myanmar.
The old border disputes have been silenced.
Tanzanians are being silenced like never before, and the world should be very worried.
The Muslim Tatars – roughly 15% of Crimea’s population – strongly oppose joining the Russian Federation and may become a permanent thorn in its side, along with the 25% of Ukrainian-speaking Crimeans who have been silenced over the past ten days.
So, when Sarah Palin is escorted into the media limelight, she becomes the symbolic revenge fantasy of many of those silenced, exhausted factory workers and secretaries.
Just about any woman who was not born into privilege, has small children at home, and is not a cannibal or a Satanist would elicit initial roars of approval from women in general, and surely from a group that has been silenced and trivialized for so long.
Brave Russian democrats who have not yet been silenced have already remarked on the similarity between Putin’s appeal to ethnic solidarity in annexing Crimea and Hitler’s stance during the Anschluss and the Sudeten crisis in 1938.
The errant MPs were rapidly silenced, and the visitor received a table-thumping welcome from the rest of the House.
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