All this helps create a system that encourages silence rather than noise.

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The Blackhawk lands here and, after the noise of the flight, the silence in Cameron is startling.

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The campaign, which launched last week and finishes on 28 February, is the store's attempt to turn down the white noise on modern living through meditation, silence and an awareness of loud branding.

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Everywhere the noise of new buildings going up replaced the deathly silence of the ruins.

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On this afternoon at Associated, periodic silence in the room was broken by the loud, throbbing noise of generators in the vicinity--the sound of another outage.

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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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