In what amounts to a quiet insurrection, the general assembly has devised its own process for the appointment of Ban's replacement.
There follows an uncomfortable interval, with the entire assembly standing quiet and stock-still.
As grey and quiet as a Christian school assembly.
As gray and quiet as a Christian school assembly.
Atticus is "To Kill a Mockingbird's" moral center: a single father, member of the state assembly, he is quiet, principled, an attorney who believes in the sanctity of law.
The assembly, while large, was quiet enough that it did not disturb Sean Penn and a film crew shooting a bar scene a few feet away.
"By phone, on planes and trains, from the racket of factory assembly lines to the quiet of hospital rooms, from the big-town sharpies to unsophisticated villagers, it burned the ears of a nation".
It brought voting indoors, contained it in compartments, and made it safer, quieter, more orderly, more like an assembly line.
And although Lexus knows interiors like nobody else, especially when it comes to near-perfect assembly and keeping things tomb quiet, we wouldn't mind a bit more pizzazz.
Car assembly lines, manned by robots, are quiet as libraries; on the factory floor of an aerospace firm a handful of workers monitor screens attached to vast high-tech machinery.
MINAMISANRIKU, Japan — Jin Sato, mayor of this quiet fishing port, had just given a speech to the town assembly on the need to strengthen tsunami preparation when the earthquake struck.
