His eyes were set back under the brim of his hat and the overhang of his brow, and he made his point by silent moral authority.
Yet alongside silent abuses of authority are those who resist - stubborn witnesses, upright judges, dissenting consciences.
The advertisement, which mimicked the format of an official service notice, criticized Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg for staying silent as the authority cut service and prepared to raise fares.
In the young adult series, which is set in a dystopian autocracy, the salute is a sign of silent protest against authorities.
While some ultra-Orthodox rabbis now say that a child molester should be reported to the police, others strictly adhere to an ancient Jewish prohibition against mesirah, the turning in of a Jew to non-Jewish authorities, and instruct victims to either remain silent or let rabbinical authorities quietly handle the allegations.
Others carry a heavy weight: They've witnessed someone's wrongful behavior and remain silent, often intimidated by authority.
Stevens also noted that the various statutes that were passed in regards to mineral rights and leases were silent as to the authority of a tribe to impose taxes.
While the Obama administration excoriated Israel, the State Department remained stoically silent as the Palestinian Authority was planning a special ceremony, during Vice President Biden's trip to the Holy Land, to name a public square in Ramallah after arch terrorist, Dalal Mughrabi, who led a 1978 bus hijacking in which 37 Israelis, including 12 children, were murdered.
This model operated in contraposition to the interests of the medical industrial complex, which since the middle of the 1990s had developed silent reforms to regain authority in defining the health-ill-care model.
