Sentence examples for methods to silence from inspiring English sources

But Meles is viewed by many as a dictator who has stifled democracy and used draconian methods to silence dissent.

Human rights groups say they fear the authorities are increasingly turning to unlawful methods to silence unwanted voices, citing cases such Liu Xia's, the disappearance of the lawyer Gao Zhisheng and the house arrest of the legal activist Chen Guangcheng following his release from prison.

RNA interference (RNAi) provides an effective method to silence gene expression and investigate gene function.

The sequence information of ω-secalin genes with expression activity will be helpful for improving the processing quality of wheat with 1BL/1RS translocations by using RNA interference method to silence the expression of the ω-secalin genes.

"It's a dark day in our nation when high-level authorities will seek to use every method to silence dissent.

Instead of cleaning up the coal ash contamination and fixing the leaks, PP&L has opted for a cheaper method to silence the issue.

They have used defamation so much as a method to silence the other, that their incendiary adjectives have ceased to have any effect on a population sick and tired of so many slogans and so few results.

The TRV-based VIGS system has proven to be an efficient and fast method to silence target genes in petunia.

Furthermore, we point out that the effect of this ablation to reduce predator avoidance is similar to the phenotype that was reported by Silva et al. (2013), using hM4DREADD as an independent method to silence SF1+ neurons.

Along a similar line, the ERG responses we record in both Gnat1−/− Cnga3−/−;Opn4−/− and Gnat1−/− Gnat2cpfl3/cpfl3 mice reveal that neither of the methods used to silence rod and cone phototransduction in these genotypes are completely successful.

RNA interference (RNAi), mediated by small interfering RNA (siRNA), is an effective method used to silence gene expression at the post-transcriptional level.