As troops fanned out in the town awaiting the arrival of Hawker Hunter jets to bomb and destroy civilian government, Allende desperately but vainly tried to contact Pinochet and for a few hours was convinced that his military commander had been kidnapped and silenced by the insurgents.
So the public is left with the impression that they are being silenced in their concerns... when actually the opposite is true".
The BBC has rejected claims by the former UK chancellor, Lord Lawson, that debate on global warming has been silenced by the corporation.
I was silenced by legislation and court orders.
Artists and athletes have a responsibility to make voices heard on behalf of those who are silenced, not as athletes or as artists, but as fellow human beings.
I pledge that I will not be silenced.
God – abroad on Radio 4 at least – was silenced.
The Boston Bruins silenced Toronto with an overtime winner against the Maple Leafs to seal a 4-3 victory and take a 3-1 NHL playoff series lead.
Mr Cameron silenced whispers about child benefit simply by denying plans to change this "key part of families' budgets".
The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that the truth about the extent of surveillance carried out by US authorities would emerge, even if he was eventually silenced.
"It's systematically silenced.
