The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights issued an unusually harsh statement in the wake of the deaths, accusing Arab nations and the international community of being "partners" in the killing "because of their silence about the massacres that the Syrian regime has committed".
Because of their silence on the issue, neither Mr McCain nor Mr Obama will be able to claim a mandate on reform.
Swarbrick said that because of their silence, Te'o and his family had "lost the opportunity to, in some ways, control the story".
By E. B. White The New Yorker, May 19 , 1934P. 23 (The all-helical gears of the new Dodge, six were intensely interesting to Prince Alexis Droutzkoy, because of their magic silence).- Adv. in the Herald Tribune.
Defective miRNAs cause diseases because of their inability to silence the corresponding natural set of target genes (and eventually by silencing new target genes).
The recently developed siRNA oligonucleotides are an attractive alternative to antisense as a therapeutic modality because of their robust, gene selective silencing of drug target protein expression.
These compounds have had immediate application in cancer research because of their ability to reactivate aberrantly silenced tumour suppressor genes and/or block tumour cell growth.
Thus, one can assume that HP1 might be a signature of TE vestiges because of their heterochromatic localization, whereas HP1-independent silencing pathways might act within euchromatic regions to specifically silence full-length TE and prevent their mobilization.
I've heard stories over and over from women whose voices and gifts have been silenced simply because of their gender.
Sometimes people keep their silence because the circumstances of their heroism are too painful to recall.
