From the slums of Nairobi to the leafy residences of the political elite and the makeshift camps where many of those displaced by the post-election fighting remain, Kenyans stopped to listen to a short statement from The Hague, in the Netherlands.
The participants were then told to listen to a series of statements about some of the objects they had seen, such as "The car was facing to the left" and asked to indicate as quickly as possible if each was true or false.
In a Toronto courtroom on Wednesday, Rehab Dughmosh listened to a lengthy statement of facts outlining what happened on June 3, 2017, which led to her fateful visit to the Scarborough Canadian Tire at the Cedarbrae Mall.
Such a statement is very much alike to a statement that listening to a noise mixed with a pure melody contributes to the artistic value of the melody.
Yankees Manager Joe Torre listened to a reporter read Steinbrenner's statement, bit his lower lip as he suppressed a laugh and said, "Guess he said it pretty good".
After listening to a round of passionate opening statements, I got my own turn to practice, using the hypothetical questions I had tried out in Gaza.
"I thought the comment of one newspaper report that the gay community would be stupid to listen to political statements from a man in a skirt pretty wide of the mark.
Photograph: icorpus.ru/AP Updated at 9.43pm BST 9.20pm BST The Russian foreign ministry has again called for an immediate ceasefire and accused Kiev of being "unwilling to listen to reason" in a statement from a spokesman, Alexander Lukashevich.
