Sentence examples for cost of silencing from inspiring English sources

Unity is useful in any movement for change, but not if it comes at the cost of silencing a necessary debate.

While both candidates run on the premise that Washington Is Broken, I'm disinclined to disagree, only to add: our good faith with ourselves is broken, too, a cost of silencing or at best mumbling the most crucial truths.

MONDAY: The cost of silence.

TODAY: The cost of silence.

But we also know the cost of silence.

Neither our country nor our conscience can afford the cost of silence".

At the same time, there are ways to lower the psychological cost of speaking up and to raise the cost of silence.

Smith became, as Stars and Stripes put it, "the first general officer to come out as gay while still serving," a formulation that left space for the never-to-be-known number of gay and lesbian general officers — and troops at every level — who have served their country at the cost of silence, or of having to lie about their lives.

For as much as the book works on several levels (as a meditation on belonging, as a story of growing up gay and the psychic cost of silence, as metaphor for recovery), it is the strong-willed Betty who shines through.

"Settlement might have provided me with financial benefits, but only at the great cost of silence," Pao wrote in a statement provided to The Wall Street Journal and Re/code.

The worldwide opprobrium heaped on Shell for its failure to help Mr. Saro-Wiwa has sensitized corporations to the public relations costs of silence.