He was not an active leader of the national-revolutionary movement, which revealed in the years of 1917-1921 a whole handful of prominent fighters for the Ukrainian republic," revealing that the composer was politically quiet, but not indifferent.
In the early spring of 2010, ahead of the July school board primary election, an unprecedented get-out-the-vote effort materialized in the hitherto politically quiet black community.
But many others say that Mr. Gore is doing the right thing politically by keeping quiet.
Bensasson says: "After my PhD, I … went very quiet politically because I had to publish my papers and get a faculty position.
Abe retained his seat in the lower house of the Diet but for several years remained quiet politically, especially after a DPJ-headed coalitook took control of the government in 2009.
Long Island's colleges and universities, mostly emptied out for the winter holiday break, were expected to be relatively quiet, but politically energized students were still making plans.
WHEN Gustavo Noboa, Ecuador's quiet and politically inexperienced vice-president, was handed his country's presidency in January 2000 after an attempted coup by army colonels and radical Andean Indians, few people expected him to last long.
Mr Yao says he was detained five times last year to keep him quiet during politically sensitive occasions, including the NPC session last March.As usual, China is preparing for the upcoming parliamentary meeting with a propaganda blitz about the session's importance as a conduit for public opinion.
No question, the world's major economies badly need 2010 to be another quiet year politically and geopolitically, but that will require, at a minimum, that three major struggles — the banks vs. President Obama, China vs. Google & friends, and the world vs. Iran — can be defused with win-win compromises rather than win-lose confrontations.
They were both members of the educated classes, intensely pious, quiet-spoken, and politically stifled by the regimes in their own countries.
"They have cash, they're interested, they're quiet and they're politically palatable," says Penn Bowers of CLSA Securities.
