1.   The Mafia uses threats of physical violence or death to silence any opposition.

2.   Churchill weighed into the debate with a speech that silenced all opposition.

3.   Andrew Burnett, co-founder of the American Coalition of Life Advocates, a nationwide anti-abortion group, said the lawsuit was an effort to silence all opposition to abortion.

4.   Despite this adulation, a vituperative right-wing calumniator regularly denounces Lee for using lap dog judges to silence internal opposition and intimidate journalists.

5.   In Haiti today, a brutal regime is silencing its opposition through murder.

6.   In its annual report on human rights, the State Department accused Beijing of silencing opposition by jailing, intimidating or exiling every known dissident.

7.   In this city, the political capital of the area controlled by the nationalist Bosnian Croat party, some foreign officials say fear has virtually silenced the opposition.

8.   It silences the opposition.

9.   Stanley contends the firings occurred to silence opposition to council members and cover up a history of financial improprieties.

10.   Supporters contend nonprofit organizations are using taxpayer money to subsidize lobbying efforts, but nonprofit groups have accused Republicans of trying to silence opposition to their agenda.