1.   The flowers had not yet withered on the graves of the dead and the NRA was already trying to muzzle its critics.

2.   The reactionary mullahs who arrested these new darlings of the publishing world must rue the day they decided to muzzle their critics with a few political show trials.

3.   Foreign exchange controls, taxes, granting of credits, and distribution of newsprint also are used to muzzle critics and reward sympathetic publications, he said.

4.   Foreign exchange controls, taxes, granting of credits, and distribution of newsprint also are used to muzzle critics and reward government-friendly publications, he said.

5.   In his most recent attempt to muzzle critics, Lukashenko this week ordered the tax service to freeze the bank accounts of five leading independent newspapers.

6.   In his most recent attempt to muzzle critics, Lukashenko this week had the tax service freeze the bank accounts of five leading independent newspapers.

7.   It has been widely criticized by reporters and opposition parties as an effort by the government to muzzle critics, especially in advance of Parliament elections next November.

8.   Mark Cooper of the Consumer Federation of America accused the government of trying to muzzle Microsoft critics.

9.   Reporters and opposition parties call it an effort by the government to muzzle critics.