1.   They begin to mute their voices, not be as assertive.

2.   Although his public voice has been muted, his reach on assisted suicide is broad.

3.   At the moment, this voice is so muted that it is often kept out of top deliberations, the report says.

4.   But for whatever reason, most voices Monday were muted.

5.   But the roughest edges have been smoothed, the angriest voices muted.

6.   But there were also somber moments as women talked about societies, customs and cultures that mute their voices and deny validity to their experience.

7.   Common stockholders may vastly outnumber executives, but their voices are muted on Capitol Hill, she said.

8.   Garcia became an eloquent advocate for those whose voices were muted by poverty, by lack of formal education, by a brutal system of discrimination.

9.   He was a new player who could not produce as he had before, and his voice was muted.

10.   It mutes their voices, erases their expressions, robs them of their motor control.