The fact that the first electronic programmable computer had been built in Britain was hushed up.

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Far better to keep it all hushed up than to face the potential fallout.

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They also have reason to worry that other, more serious, leaks are being hushed up.

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In most other EU countries, such things tend to be hushed up.

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We have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for offences of this nature - which, whatever their degree of seriousness, we find repulsive - neither do we believe that they should be hushed up.

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Press reports revealed that, in many dioceses, such behaviour among priests was viewed as an internal disciplinary matter, to be hushed up and certainly not to be reported to the secular authorities.

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"You heard anger boiling up about the police from every corner of Egyptian life, but it was hushed because there was such intense fear, " Khalil said.

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