Think of the smart, independent, buff, ready-to-kill-if-necessary women from Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Thelma and Louise.
As she lay helpless on the ground in India, being kicked and beaten by a man, Bhalla tells BBC, there was deafening silence from a group of young men standing nearby watching, silence from her neighbors who heard her screams but were reluctant to get involved.
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No one knows what answer they gave, but judging from the absolute silence from everyone, coupled with the evidence, the lawyers probably poured a large drink.
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In some quarters, Japan's swift decision to establish an exclusion zone, initiate monitoring of people and food, and dispense iodine tablets has received praise - and the volume of advice and warnings issued to the public has been very different from the silence that pertained after Chernobyl, despite criticisms from other quarters over the quality and timing of some of the Japanese advice.
People around the world heard about the sneers from some classmates, the silence from some adults, the school board that says it supports them but didn't sponsor its own prom.
The poem quickly became a requested piece from our catalog at live performances, and each time there seemed to be a special silence from the audience.
So far, though, there has been silence from both Europe and Japan, both of which provide enormous subsidies to their farmers.
The report was met with silence from the Elysee Palace, the French president's office, which did not respond to requests for comment.
The silence from the defendants -- some ignored the judge and others appeared to be reading -- slowed the proceedings to a crawl.
"Well the silence from Idaho Republicans has been deafening, " Foster said.
There were some anxious moments as Hatton lolled on his back, but he eventually came round to hear only stunned silence from his thousands of fans.
Players can also spend their points on various deception options, from enforcing radio silence, making units harder to spot, to building a decoy base, replete with fake vehicles.
The recent dearth of new releases and silence from the company was apparently due to some internal restructuring in which the company moved people around to focus on product groups.
As St Paul's - and the wider church - had in recent days appeared like a rudderless ship battered by storms beyond its control - there was silence from Lambeth Palace.
Bergoglio, who as a teen lost a lung to infection, showed that humility on Wednesday, saying that before he blessed the crowd he wanted their prayers for him and then he bowed his head amid the silence from the crowd.
Utter silence from Yasser Arafat.
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The final whistle was met by stunned silence from Arsenal's disbelieving fans, while the small contingent of travelling fans will return to East Yorkshire with the knowledge their team have climbed to sixth spot in the Premier League after their third - and most important - win of the season.
But the DNA of the company is really just working away in silence away from the eyes of others.
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Prof Halligan also said there had been a "deafening silence" from the medical profession since the release of the Francis report.
As an American Muslim, I can tell you from firsthand experience that silence is not the right response to extremist voices.
From one side of the room, Ed heard a suppressed giggle, from the other a silence that was too deep to be genuine.
The protective shell of silence keeping damage from the hacking crimes at News Corp.
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The following week the children returned to school and apart from a minute's silence and a morning spent learning the words to America the Beautiful, their lives were remarkably unchanged.
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.
When he had finished, the publisher lit a cigarette and paced up and down the office for a long time in silence, walking from one wall to the other, a distance of barely three yards.
Speaking of solitude, Michonne has finally emerged from her own self-inflicted silence and isolation.
But being able to see the park from the 22nd floor and the silence won us over.
When the first edition was published in 1982, Davis was just emerging from a shadowy five-year silence.
Moments of silence were also held from Canada, down through the United States and even across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
Although through, Amodu's team will have done little to silence the critical voices from within Nigeria about the state of the national team.
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