Sentence examples for striking silence from inspiring English sources

The Supreme Court oral argument on Wednesday in King v. Burwell featured thousands of words, dozens of provocative questions, two engaged and skillful lawyers — and one very striking silence.

Mr. Berlusconi's expulsion was confirmed through a series of votes, and after a day of passionate arguments, the reaction in the chamber after the final tally was striking: silence.

IN MY print column this week, I look at the striking silence of rich Britons, as billionaires (and even mere millionaires) from America to France, Germany and Italy loudly volunteer to pay more taxes.THE Royal Mail is not what it was, so perhaps that joint letter from British billionaires, volunteering to pay more tax, is stuck in the post.

There were also striking silences between, and sometimes within, the individual works.

Mr. Qadri failed to achieve his headline aims, like the immediate dissolution of President Asif Ali Zardari's government and the installation of a temporary administration led by technocrats — demands that, together with a striking military silence about his movement, had stoked fears of army interference in politics.

What's most striking about "Beyond Silence," however, is not Hoffman's development but his consistency.

The White Ribbon campaign was set up 10 years ago "because of the huge problem of the massive prevalence of violence by men towards women, and what was so striking was the silence of men in relation to that," says David Bartlett, the campaign's director.

Halfway through the third set, and what's most striking here is the silence.

Yet Washington-Williams's magnanimity toward Thurmond, even after six decades of silence, was striking, if not unsettling.

I may not have understood it, but I loved watching this film for the entirety of its 109 minutes, enjoying simply the pleasure of hearing these two stomp around the pebbly roads of the village, the rain dripping in a gutter as they smile at each other in eerie silence, the striking of a match as the demented (or gifted?) boyfriend lights a fire in the marsh.

One striking feature of gene silencing is that the silencing effects are non-cell autonomous and spread to neighboring cells.