Sentence examples for offence to silence from inspiring English sources

Several other authors, including novelist Hari Kunzru and historian William Dalrymple, spoke out in The Guardian, with Kunzru saying that the Hindu "far right... has become expert in wielding the weapon of [religious] offence to silence critics".

There are many other examples in Turkey of the weapons of offence and insult being used to silence dissent.

Mr Ai has now been accused of tax-related offences, as a convenient way to silence a critic without having a contentious political trial like that of Liu Xiaobo in 2009.

Those who wish to silence others have noticed that expressions of offence and demands that people say sorry are the best way of doing it.

He's a man accustomed to causing offence and yet last year even he said sorry for a remark he'd made on The One Show purely to silence apology-extortionists' demands.

Those stopped have no automatic right to legal advice and it is a criminal offence to refuse to co-operate with questioning under schedule 7, which critics say is a curtailment of the right to silence.

I campaigned strongly against the abolition of the right to silence and I am currently campaigning against proposals to abolish the right to trial by jury for a large number of offences.

All fade to silence.

No to silence".

Quell means to silence, pacify.

Poems are difficult to silence.