• Because of the grant that went to this company, we can hear the sounds of machines humming and people doing their work, instead of just the ghostly silence of an emptied-out building and the memory of workers who were laid off a long time ago.

    WHITEHOUSE: Creating a Green Impact Zone

  • As everyone watched in stunned silence, Dolan stormed out of the room.

    FORBES: On the Cover

  • 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.

    NEWYORKER: The Limner

  • Somehow, Greece manager Fernando Santos instigated a response to silence the Polish fans in and out of the stadium, with substitute Salpigidis the central character.

    CNN: Russia win as co-hosts Poland are held

  • The ravine has 400m-high walls of sheer limestone, which block out the sun and silence the world outside.

    BBC: On the trail in Sardinia

  • More damaging still to the Tory cause was the squashing of any hope that last summer's ballot of party members, in which they voted overwhelmingly to stay out of the euro for at least two parliaments, would silence the pro-euro Tories in Parliament.

    ECONOMIST: Not quite across the Rubicon

  • Logan, who told The New York Times last week that she did not plan to give any other interviews after the "60 Minutes" segment was broadcast, said she is proud of having spoken out about her experience and breaking the silence around journalists and sexual violence.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • At the opening of the commission, the names of the dead were called out and a minute's silence held.

    BBC: South Africa shootings: Marikana mine inquiry begins

  • However, Hussey's was the stand-out performance of the day as he produced an assured innings to silence the critics who had questioned his selection.

    BBC: Ashes: Early start suits England, says Steven Finn

  • He was lured out of retirement to work with UK band Starsailor on their 2003 album Silence is Easy, his first project for 23 years.

    BBC: Phil Spector: Pop innovator

  • When a monk takes a vow of silence, he does so in order to shut out the world and devote himself exclusively to things of the spirit.

    NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

  • David heard him out in silence, then shrugged, as if it were a matter of indifference to him.

    NEWYORKER: The Swan

  • Niagara's landfills are spectacular: mountains of made land, rising out of the earth, gently breathing their methane, almost beautiful in their grassy silence.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Inventing Niagara'

  • We stretched out on the rocks, I collected a handful of pebbles, we enjoyed some moments of silence and after about half an hour set off for the village by another route.

    BBC: Following Graham Greene to Liberia's sacred waterfall

  • In Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, most of the hundreds of thousands of people who'd gathered in the Museumplein square to watch the game on a giant screen filtered out in stunned silence after the final whistle, leaving behind trampled orange hats and a smattering of tearful people sitting on crates with their heads in their hands.

    CNN: Spain celebrates Iniesta, World Cup

  • It diminishes Van Gogh a little to imagine him rushing out with his easel to stare furiously, almost comically, at some clumps of grass, trying to silence the demons in his head.

    WSJ: Dan Neil on the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Van Gogh Up Close

  • Even Vice President Hamid Ansari regretted the development, saying that the Press Council's inability to come out with the report was "a pointer to the problems of self-regulation and the culture of silence in the entire industry when it comes to self-criticism".

    BBC: Why are India's media under fire?

  • When the silence of an empty room ignites a visceral impending doom reaction, challenge why you shudder out of terror.

    FORBES: Do You Talk Too Much? 6 Telltale Signs You're a Blabbermouth

  • Despite agreeing a huge out-of-court settlement to Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers' Association which many believe was meant to silence him and to conceal evidence of widespread hacking.

    BBC: Updates from inside James Murdoch hearing

  • He'd come out of his house, down the hill from Taylor Street -- but he'd sit apart, watching in silence, arms draped across his knees in a pose of solitary sufficiency.

    CNN: Excerpt: 'Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life'

  • By unleashing a massive pulse of electromagnetic radiation sweeping over the planet, a severe solar storm could potentially knock out the electric power grid, silence radio and satellite communications and disrupt GPS navigation systems.

    FORBES: Sky Full of Trouble; Bracing for Super Solar Storms

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