Sentence examples for protected silence from inspiring English sources

Mr. Strauss-Kahn has maintained his constitutionally protected silence.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, said allowing "a prosecutor to comment on a defendant's constitutionally protected silence would put that defendant in an impossible predicament".

The system is protected by silence.

After 1945, the absolute priority was the country's reconstruction; many former Nazis took prominent positions, protected by the silence of a humiliated generation.

And all the people I tried to talk to in and around Oakland who wouldn't speak with me, who ushered me out of churches and cultural centers or grimly waved me off — their silence, protected so forcefully, spoke to the intensity of their shame.

Or, because it wasn't Islamically motivated, was he not to be protected?" A stinging silence fell on the room.

In this study, NFI was shown to prevent the propagation of a silencing chromatin structure from the telomere, and the expressed genes protected from telomeric silencing by NFI were shown to have elevated H3K9me3 marks at specific telomeric positions.

We observed 72 h after transfection that CHOP silencing protected HCT116 against apoptosis-cell death induced by Scd1 extinction (Figures 5F and 5G).

Bim silencing protected against CPA+IL-1 β-induced apoptosis, whereas A1 KD aggravated cell death.

Altogether, these results demonstrate that HIPK2 silencing protected RKO colon cancer cells from glu stv-induced cell death.

This suggests that the variant allele may be protected from epigenetic silencing because it retains the ability to recruit DNA-binding proteins such as transcription factors.