Those could include features like a pistol grip, designed to allow a weapon to be fired from the hip; a collapsible or folding stock, which allows the weapon to be shortened and perhaps concealed; a flash suppressor, which keeps the gun's user from being blinded by muzzle flashes; a muzzle brake, which helps decrease recoil; and a threaded barrel, which can accept a silencer or a suppressor.
The original plan was to dismount the eight guns on the forecastle and quarterdeck and stow them on chocks on the deck during daylight to prevent them from being damaged by muzzle blast from the main guns.
But the public interest is not well served by muzzling the public auditor and by delaying NAO reports simply because Whitehall finds them embarrassing.The NAO's jurisdiction over much government spending is also severely restricted.
The government fought back by denouncing Amhara leaders as antidemocratic chauvinists and by muzzling the press through the application of a new law, which, ironically, primarily served to end decades of systematic censorship under previous regimes but also established media regulations and penalties.
China is spending billions cranking up its state media to go global, taking Mr Hu's message of "harmony" to a worldwide audience.A powerful whiffBut the message of harmony will ring hollow abroad if it is secured by muzzling voices at home.
Now that he's created a legend of stability, order, and a country brought to heel (legend because, in addition to pervasive corruption and criminality, the WikiLeaks cables observed that many of his edicts are lost in the bureaucratic wilderness), now that state TV trumpets his triumphs, he is a man who feels totally at ease in a medium he has mastered (in part by muzzling it).
According to the federal government contract, the tender is worth $2 million for five years of research and specifically names "guided and unguided 120 mm mortars" — portable short range, explosive projectiles typically fired by muzzle-loading cannons carried by soldiers — as one of the prime focuses of the research.
We can neither defend the truth nor championed it by muzzling the liar.
For two more decades, the junta clung to power by muzzling journalists, jailing critics and violently crushing dissent.
Attack Free Speech: by muzzling dissent, Trump and the GOP are setting the stage for "rule by ideology" – where decisions are no longer made on the basis of science or evidence.
Then you remove the 'mines,' and the area is all yours". Some truffle hunters have reacted by muzzling their dogs, only to realize that this makes them sniff less effectively.
