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  • verb Present participle of muzzle.

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Examples

  • Counting speeches and interruptions, I find from the official reports that he addressed the House exactly one hundred times; and it is therefore worth noticing that his last words were, "This is what you call muzzling the House of Commons."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917 Various

  • In the debate on the Air Force in Committee, one member, if we count speeches and interruptions, addressed the House exactly one hundred times, and it is worthy of note that his last words were: "This is what you call muzzling the House of Commons."

    Mr. Punch's History of the Great War 1900

  • I wonder how many of those commentators who diligently monitor the "muzzling" activities of the "Israel Lobby" will note the story of a UN official who made a perfectly reasonable observation at a recent conference, and now has everyone from Hamas to the government of Jordan demanding his head on a plate.

    Ben S. Cohen: The Palestinians and Israel: Just Say No Ben S. Cohen 2010

  • I wonder how many of those commentators who diligently monitor the "muzzling" activities of the "Israel Lobby" will note the story of a UN official who made a perfectly reasonable observation at a recent conference, and now has everyone from Hamas to the government of Jordan demanding his head on a plate.

    Ben S. Cohen: The Palestinians and Israel: Just Say No Ben S. Cohen 2010

  • I wonder how many of those commentators who diligently monitor the "muzzling" activities of the "Israel Lobby" will note the story of a UN official who made a perfectly reasonable observation at a recent conference, and now has everyone from Hamas to the government of Jordan demanding his head on a plate.

    Ben S. Cohen: The Palestinians and Israel: Just Say No Ben S. Cohen 2010

  • I wonder how many of those commentators who diligently monitor the "muzzling" activities of the "Israel Lobby" will note the story of a UN official who made a perfectly reasonable observation at a recent conference, and now has everyone from Hamas to the government of Jordan demanding his head on a plate.

    Ben S. Cohen: The Palestinians and Israel: Just Say No Ben S. Cohen 2010

  • I wonder how many of those commentators who diligently monitor the "muzzling" activities of the "Israel Lobby" will note the story of a UN official who made a perfectly reasonable observation at a recent conference, and now has everyone from Hamas to the government of Jordan demanding his head on a plate.

    Ben S. Cohen: The Palestinians and Israel: Just Say No Ben S. Cohen 2010

  • I wonder how many of those commentators who diligently monitor the "muzzling" activities of the "Israel Lobby" will note the story of a UN official who made a perfectly reasonable observation at a recent conference, and now has everyone from Hamas to the government of Jordan demanding his head on a plate.

    Ben S. Cohen: The Palestinians and Israel: Just Say No Ben S. Cohen 2010

  • I wonder how many of those commentators who diligently monitor the "muzzling" activities of the "Israel Lobby" will note the story of a UN official who made a perfectly reasonable observation at a recent conference, and now has everyone from Hamas to the government of Jordan demanding his head on a plate.

    Ben S. Cohen: The Palestinians and Israel: Just Say No Ben S. Cohen 2010

  • I have enough faith in the American people to believe that they will reject in toto the kind of muzzling the Committee is imposing on our citizens.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

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