Hours into Saturday's proceeding, one of the defendants broke his silence with an outburst.
It was heard in prayers and hymns that broke the silence of an earthquake's wake.
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Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, the country's third-largest health insurer, broke the silence on Dec. 12.
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The parties broke campaign silence over news of illegal ballots being found at a printing shop linked to Gerb.
Paterno's widow, Sue, broke her silence Friday in a letter to hundreds of former players informing them of the report's impending release.
On Monday, the Foundation broke its silence to reveal that it would transition to a much smaller licensing entity over the next four months.
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Six years ago, Mr Kony broke his silence and was interviewed on camera in his jungle base at the time in north-eastern DR Congo.
After nearly seven weeks away from home, apparently in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria's president, Umaru Yar'Adua, broke his silence in a radio interview.
The statement comes days after Sony CEO and President Howard Stringer broke his silence on the matter, posting an apology for the stolen data and network issues on Thursday.
Mr Walker broke his silence on Thursday with allegations that bosses at the East Midlands Strategic Health Authority (SHA) ignored him when he raised concerns about patient safety in 2009.
Davern, the former captain of the yacht Splendour, broke his silence with an account of that day in "Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour, " a book he co-wrote that was published in 2009.
The women broke their silence the day after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 years old, was charged at his hospital bed in the blasts that killed three people and injured more than 200.
They were all looking to Titania to speak, but it was Oberon who finally broke the silence, announcing from the back of the room that the Beastie had died of its grief.
Dutt broke his silence a week after the Supreme Court sentenced him to five years in prison for illegal possession of weapons supplied by Mumbai crime bosses linked to a 1993 terror attack that killed 257 people.
Last week, the Federal Reserve broke a relative silence on subprime and predatory lending.
Their families broke months of silence this week, making public pleas for their release.
There had been a lingering silence and he broke it to mention this trouble in his family, as if he thought that someone should say something.
For a moment, it appeared as if Intel Germany Chief Executive Hannes Schwaderer broke the strict code of silence enforced by Apple this week when he seemingly let it slip to a German-language publication that the computer and gadget maker would be using a version of Intel's Atom processor in an upcoming version of its iPhone.
For a moment, it appeared as if Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Germany Chief Executive Hannes Schwaderer broke the strict code of silence enforced by Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) this week when he seemingly let it slip to a German-language publication that the computer and gadget maker would be using a version of Intel's Atom processor in an upcoming version of its iPhone.
The newspaper columnist who broke the identity of a CIA agent, has now broken his own silence on the matter, after almost three years.
He was almost unaware of the laughing tumult that broke out when the other two examined the drawing, and then of the silence that fell when the collector of customs, drawn by the sudden noise, entered the kitchen.
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