Sentence examples for shut down discussion from inspiring English sources

"Some people in Libya would try to shut down discussion about Lockerbie by saying, essentially, 'We paid the money — the file is closed,' " Dornstein said.

Across Whitehall, civil servants or ministers have only to suggest the Treasury will not like a policy to shut down discussion.

Talks ground to a temporary halt overnight after developing countries walked out of a meeting on loss and damage, saying rich countries had shut down discussion.

In reply, I explained what the paper was "playing at": trying to curate a reasoned debate in comments, not shut down discussion.

Secondly, and more fundamentally, the lawsuits shut down discussion rather than promoting it, by the aura of legitimacy that the inevitable rejection of the claims and the equally inevitable future acquittal yield.

This makes "insulting Turkishness" a criminal offence and is used to shut down discussion of the Armenian genocide.But the adoption of a highly political resolution in America's Congress is the worst possible way to encourage more steps in the right direction.

Russia Today starts in with "What about the Occupy movement?" It's a way of shutting down discussion, and is a key feature of the comments that flood a large number of western articles dealing with Russia these days.

"Outlawing the practice will [go] a long way, and that requires political representatives to listen to their citizens instead of shutting down discussion, but I also believe there should be an accompanying change in mindset via awareness campaigns and community engagement, because legal reform can only go so far in discontinuing a practice so ingrained in our culture," she said.

But shutting down discussion and shutting out the American public is not the answer.

General Petraeus' arguments notwithstanding, shutting down discussion by employing devious aspersions to enforce conformity to the Obama/Clinton position is precisely what we don't need.

The principle of academic freedom at our universities is under attack by those seeking to shield Israel from criticism by silencing dissent, shutting down discussion and imposing a stifling atmosphere of intimidation at the University of California, in particular.