Sentence examples for keep him silent from inspiring English sources

After serving his 51-month sentence, he was escorted back to Dongshigu, where local officials were determined to keep him silent.

On the face of it, doesn't it sound more likely that Ruby, a rakish gambler and strip-joint proprietor with longstanding ties to the criminal underworld, shot Oswald to keep him silent?

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — A former coast guard officer found dead in jail last month before an expected verdict in his trial for torture during Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship may have been killed to keep him silent, a judge concluded Monday.

"Since the Australian government cannot tolerate Sheikh Haron's activity, is trying to damage his image by these false accusations, and also for putting pressure on him to stop his activity and keep him silent, but God willing Man Haron Monis will not stop his political activity against oppression," Monis wrote on his website, according to the Morning Herald.

Three times, last-minute timidity and the too near presence of others in the street kept him silent, sent him hurrying on as if a pressing engagement awaited him at the end of the street.

She yawns, makes an effort to talk about other things all the way home, and Amadeo does not tell her what he sees that keeps him silent: Manuel García, standing on the other side of the road in front of the dark windows of the drugstore, watching.

After a few more efforts to keep him talking, the line went silent.

The jokes illustrated Hicks' precocity, and suggested how comedy both masked and admitted the hostility that kept him sullen and virtually silent around his family.

The Democratic Party, knowing his views and that of his state, approached him and asked him to keep silent for the sake of the party and the relief of Virginia.

In recent days, the rabbi said, he has received many phone calls from Jews begging him to keep silent about the issues of the play, the Watson statue and the list of names.

Speaking publicly for the first time — and defying security officials who have told him to keep silent — he explained how soldiers from the 65th Group Army dressed in civilian clothes on June 3 and stealthily made their way to the Great Hall on Tiananmen Square's western edge.