Sentence examples for curb criticism from inspiring English sources

From police to internal security forces, a host of state officials are allegedly targeting journalists and other critics, using intimidation to curb criticism of government policies ahead of the election — particularly in rural areas of the East African country, according to a Human Rights Watch Report (HRW) released on Monday.

Such countries, he says, "hide behind the principles of sovereignty, non-interference and Southern solidarity, but their real aim is to curb criticism".

Egypt's press, though freer, remains subject to subtle and sometimes overt pressures to curb criticism: newspaper columnists have taken to leaving their spaces blank in protest at renewed censorship.

What seemed like a one-time request by the government, asking social media companies in India to censor and screen content, now could be read as a more sinister plan to curb criticism and dissent.

Mr. Fleischer's words -- some of which were left out of the White House transcript, compounding the error -- suggested that the White House was seeking to curb criticism during the crisis, and he is still bruised by the incident.

The national organisations involved in Mexicoleaks are less vulnerable to physical attacks than journalists in the provinces, but they can still come under intense pressure apparently designed to curb criticism of entrenched interests.

As speaker, Mr. Hadad Adel tried to curb any criticism of Mr. Ahmadinejad, and came across as a weak leader.

One of the intentions of Secretary Powell's early initiatives on Iraq was to curb the criticism in the Arab world that the United States was trying to intentionally impoverish the Iraqi people.

Editors of the three biggest newspapers, Chosun Ilbo, Joong-ang Ilbo and Dong-A Ilbo, said the fines were an effort to curb their criticism of President Kim Dae Jung, who has called for "media reform".

Officials with Hispanic Broadcasting and WADO have refused to talk about the action, but Mr. Borrero, 50, who is also editor in chief of the daily Spanish-language newspaper El Diario La Prensa, asserts that he was taken off the air after he refused the station's request to curb his criticism.

During his career, Dr. Reed accepted government jobs without curbing his criticism of government.