Sentence examples for was being silenced from inspiring English sources
When Leonid I. Brezhnev replaced Khrushchev as party leader in October 1964, it was apparent that Mr. Solzhenitsyn was being silenced.
"I started feeling a few years ago that I was being silenced, that the things I wanted to talk about were not acceptable or mainstream enough.
If the facts were wobbly and anecdotes exaggerated, the pretence that debate was being silenced was basically code for something harder to dismiss: feelings about change, loss of control, and the world moving on without their permission.
The DfE denied that the axing of the role was connected to Devon's criticism of government policy, or that she was being silenced, but said it was because a new cross-government mental health champion was being appointed, which made Devon's role obsolete.
It started with an essay in the NYRB in 2003 stating that the peace process was "finished"; that the Jewish state was an "anachronism"; and that legitimate criticism of Israel was being silenced by bogus charges of anti-Semitism.Nobody could accuse him of letting fly from a position of ignorance.
With the help of his pal Glenn Beck, an aggrieved Barton quickly had his followers convinced that he was being silenced for telling the truth!
But campaigners argue that women are being silenced through abuse.
History is being silenced anew, she said by telephone.
Dissidents' voices are being silenced and their rights are being crushed.
"What's going on in Russia is being silenced," she said.
