Sentence examples for silence protest from inspiring English sources

It would seem that PiL is echoing the government in its determination to sideline unions and silence protest.

Mr. Hu's sentence was widely considered part of the Chinese government's effort to silence protest before the 2008 Olympic Games, which the country carefully managed to maximize positive international attention.

Outside Belfast city hall at lunchtime on Sunday protesters banged pots and pans, rattled tambourines and battered bongo drums in a "No Silence" protest against the violence that started over the city council's new union flag policy.

"The expected decision of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston," Mr. Sharpton said through his lawyer, Sanford A. Rubenstein, "confirms the present climate in some of our courts, which are being used to politically stifle dissent and silence protest".

The act of forgetting and erasing the violence of the past is one undertaken primarily by the established left, not by the British state, which has retained its ability to repress and silence protest with force and with the power of the courts.

When violence is used to silence protest, democracy is placed under threat.

In spite of the international outcry provoked by the killings, the Syrian government launched new operations to silence protests, deploying large numbers of troops equipped with tanks and armoured personnel carriers to the cities of Darʿā, Bāniyās, and Homs, three centres of antigovernment protest.

The heartbreak, however, lies in the self-delusion that silences protest.

As mayor of Seoul, in 2005, he silenced protests from urban shop owners and peeled back asphalt to reveal a long-forgotten, sewage-filled stream.

Through fear and intimidation, he has silenced protests in Tripoli, ravaged Zawiyah, where the rebels had once delivered the revolt to his doorstep, and brought himself within striking distance of a series of strategic oil towns in eastern Libya.

"Silence equals protest," says one banner.