Sentence examples for try to muffle from inspiring English sources

Such statements spur Mr. Wilders on, and in his opinion unintentionally prove that Islam is a rigid, intolerant religion whose followers try to muffle criticism, often violently.

It was also a far cry from the screeds the company routinely dispenses these days to try to muffle journalistic — and indeed political — enquiry.

Opening with a suspiciously brilliant pitch for a watch ad by Freddie Rumsen, which nearly floors Peggy Olsen, though not so much that she doesn't try to muffle its perfect tag line, the episode founds out stalwarts mostly carrying on in a sort of functional despair.

Policymakers who tried to muffle booms and busts always ended up amplifying them instead.

In trying to muffle sound, Ball had made the walls too high, isolating workers in their cells.

While the technocrats moved to the politburo and pushed market reforms, the ideologues stayed in the propaganda ministry and tried to muffle voices of criticism.

He tries to muffle my shouts with his hands, but I wriggle and twist till he bows under my weight, and we nearly topple over.

Could it be that mainland China is trying to muffle dissent?Many in Hong Kong believe, without hard evidence, that mainland China has played a shadowy role in the rash of resignations.

You've cleaned all the gloop out of your tins and plastic cartons, tried to muffle the guilty clinking of all those wine bottles and scrunched up the weekend supplements to create one of the densest objects in the universe.

Although Ms. Winslet gamely tries to muffle her sexiness in dowdy clothes and nerdy mannerisms, this Hermione Granger act only succeeds in making her more crush-worthy than ever, but then again that was probably the idea.

"But unfortunately now," he said, "I have to give them lesson No. 2, which is that every so often, a Caesar comes along and tries to muffle that voice".