The title of "El Silenciero" is a neologism that isn't easy to translate but might be rendered as "The Silence-Maker" or "The Silentist".
We may have broken a wall of silence among policy makers and decision-makers.
It would also help to silence American car makers who have seen their profits squeezed by the strong dollar and who might otherwise lobby for new import barriers.
Congressional investigators have been looking into what they have called "very serious" claims that Avandia's maker "silenced one or more medical professionals who attempted to speak out about the potential for cardiovascular problems with Avandia," according to a letter to Glaxo last week from the Senate Finance Committee.
Tentatively, yes, although recent radio silence from its makers at Guildford's Hello Games suggests either crunch time, panic stations, or both.
We can no longer sit in silence while policy makers decide what works for our students, we must make our voices heard.
What the maker of "Silence" does or does not believe must remain, of course, a matter between him and the Almighty, but, in regard to the transcendent power of cinema, all of Scorsese's doubts just fade away.
The recent, critically-acclaimed documentaries, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, by US film-maker Joshua Oppenheimer, have increased international awareness of this period of history.
But for one witness who is scheduled to appear, Dr. John B. Buse, a nationally noted diabetes specialist, the hearing will take a different turn, focusing on whether he was the target of an effort by the drug's maker, GlaxoSmithKline, to silence his criticism of the drug.
Through acquiescent silence, the PCC permitted policy-makers and the public to make mistaken assumptions about the breadth and depth of the powers and capacity of self-regulation.
LONDON – Adam S. Posen, the former Bank of England policy maker, is breaking his silence to criticize the British government's austerity plan, and he is not mincing words.
