And he said they wanted a change. He said: "Party unity is not a sufficient excuse for silence."

VOA: special.2009.08.30

It caused strange thoughts. He said the cold and silence of this frozen world seemed to increase a man's fear of death.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

He had a terrifying experience serving in the United States Air Force in Saudi Arabia and suffered PTSD in silence for years after.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Words like these come to mind as visitors enter a world of silence, darkness and cold, almost two hundred thirty meters under the ground.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

"Pe-eek!" It was a cry of joyful discovery, but it was followed almost immediately by silence.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

But I was no help to myself. There was a moment of terrible silence.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

He seemed a part of the darkness and silence of the forest, for no one had ever known him to smile or speak an unnecessary word.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

One was silence. The other was the recorded sound of a coral reef.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

There was silence for a moment. Then the first man spoke again.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

There was a short silence, and then the door opened slowly.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

She finishes, and there is a long silence.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

For a time she watched in silence.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Then there was a long silence.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Before beginning the show, director Dadi Pudumjee asked the audience to observe a minute of silence to honor the actors and puppet experts in Japan who may have suffered after last week's major earthquake.

VOA: special.2011.03.16

Inquiry chairman, John Chilcot opened the hearings with a moment of silence for those who died in the conflict.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Diatta says silence to preserve the family's honor often is a family's first reaction when a girl is raped.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Emergency founder Gino Strada denounced the detentions of the aid group's three workers, calling it a mafia-style attempt to silence a witness.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

As soon as news reached Rome, a minute of silence was observed in the lower house of parliament.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Davies is the author of a new book, "The Eerie Silence."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The U.S.House of Representatives observed a moment of silence.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

A bugle call and a moment of silence for NATO soldiers who have died in past and current combat missions - including in Afghanistan where over 1,000 NATO coalition troops have been killed.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04