'No matter how much we urge silence,' he said, 'congenital briefing goes on about who is responsible for what.' The memo was duly leaked and Campbell's enemies lined up to condemn a sub-literate press officer ('congenital briefing'?) who was bossing about Ministers who should be answerable to Parliament rather than an apparatchik.
Faced with an unruly chamber, she shouted: "Wheesht!" A Scots term urging silence which I regularly deploy when herding politicians in broadcast debates.
Middlebrook's paintings talk about his wish to express remorse to the family of his victim, and how that impulse towards contrition is strangled by a capital punishment system that urges silence, lest an inmate jeopardize his or her appeals cases.
Baton in his right hand, variously slicing, slashing, flicking, flipping, mincing, he employs his left as moderator, calming, urging, silencing.
Elizabeth urged herself to observe Silence, Order, Moderation and Humility.
Abu Durayd, a local church official, said he had urged the students to silence their cellphones and hide themselves as best they could, which meant in their darkened rooms under their beds, as the militants entered the building.
Edinburgh coach Steve Scott has urged his side to silence the Lyon fans when the Murrayfield men visit the French outfit on European Challenge Cup duty.
But when I raise my hand I am aware of all the women who are still in silence, the women who are faceless, the women who don't have the money and who don't have the constitution and who don't have the confidence and who don't have the images in our media that gives them a sense of self-worth to break their silence". She urged everyone to be politically active and to fight for their cause.
Lammy, Livingstone and other politicians urged he should be silenced on the grounds that his views would only give succour to Britain's racist fringe - as indeed they have.
In late August, the Maryland state delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. wrote to the Baltimore Ravens' owner, Steve Bisciotti, urging him to silence linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo.
The mother of the British businessman murdered by the wife of Chinese politician Bo Xilai has broken her silence, urging Beijing to show compassion and end the family's nightmare.
