Sentences with phrase «squelching discussion»

During the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), one person who gave evidence was asked how the church can deal with the abuse of power and replied: «It needs to stop squelching discussion, it has a way of crushing people when they try to speak and it needs to treat people as adults not children.»

Declarations of heresy only serve to inflame others, squelch discussion, and tend to move others to dismiss anything that you might share though it be true and valuable.

And to this day, the CCP does all it can to squelch discussion about four particular years of that nation's history since it took command.