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National competition authorities in countries like Britain were silenced.
There is, in any case, no doubt that it can be silenced.
It is as if the voice of the diaspora were being silenced in Palestine.
Tamil Nadu’s voters, who supported the scheme at election time, silenced the critics.
Bush silenced criticism by calling it unpatriotic.
Talk about the so-called “peace dividend” that was supposed to come with the fall of the Berlin Wall has been silenced.
Journalists know that democracy and a free press are mutually dependent, and that when reporters are silenced, embezzlement, extortion, and environmental crimes increase.
While opponents are silenced and maginalized, the President's supporters grow richer and more powerful.
But that hasn’t silenced the EU’s critics, who complain that it was the child of unelected technocrats and of governments negotiating treaties behind the backs of their people.
Infuriated by what he considered to be guerilla tactics, Trichet effectively silenced the mischief-makers by the bold stroke of pre-announcing the rate hike two weeks before the meeting.
He must be put under control, silenced.
Despite the disappointment in Addis Ababa, the call for reform of the international tax system is not likely to be silenced.
To ensure that no voice is wrongly silenced, French democratic institutions must continue to defend free speech, the most precious of all human rights – and the one most necessary to overcome hate in all its many guises.
Unless media executives begin to take these trends seriously, the voices of women journalists could be silenced.
But, by doing this, the voices of the vulnerable are also silenced.
But history is something that must be freely analysed, not silenced out of deference.
Thus the political class becomes a kind of nomenklatura which remains unchallenged because of the apathy of the many, and when those who do not fit are silenced, nobody raises his or her voice.
Moreover, Merkel visited Athens and silenced the voices in her coalition government who were openly calling for Greece’s exit from the euro.
Indeed, while I refuse to believe that Ukraine’s march to civil war is unstoppable, I also know that our citizens will never be silenced again.
Chinese critics of the government, or even those who simply wish to report mistakes or wrongdoing, are silenced with a heavy hand: beatings in police stations, draconian jail sentences, or even murder.
Still, the Egyptian artillery was superior, and should have at least silenced the tanks firing at the trench line.
Although Tudor faced innumerable lawsuits for libel, he could not be silenced.
When opposition is silenced and mass media voices only the dictator’s propaganda, millions of people dying from famine can be kept secret and/or ignored.
NEW YORK – When caricature takes the place of dialogue, everyone suffers – especially when it comes to understanding issues affecting women, who struggle worldwide against being silenced.
The seductive call of extremism will not be silenced with pleas to fundamentalist imams in European mosques to stop indoctrinating young Muslim men.
Before dying of COVID-19, Li Wenliang, the Wuhan-based physician who was silenced after trying to sound the alarm about the coronavirus outbreak, pointed out that “a healthy society should not have just one voice.”
But Schetyna effectively silenced his critics when he forged the European Coalition, the only political project with any shot of defeating PiS.
But Li and his co-workers were silenced by the police and threatened with punishment unless they kept quiet.
Although both countries face deep structural challenges, and journalists, writers, and intellectuals remain at risk, their political systems’ dependence on power-sharing arrangements has prevented dissenting voices from being entirely silenced.
Where independent media are silenced, coerced, or captured, the public has few options for gaining any information beyond the narratives pushed by governments and special interests.
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