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A schoolteacher in northern France asked her class for a moment of silence in his memory.
Trump’s extramarital affairs are common knowledge, despite hefty pay-offs intended to silence his sexual partners, such as the adult film performer and stripper known as Stormy Daniels.
This repression of liberal reformers passes unnoticed in the wider world, with America’s silence particularly noticeable.
This silence is vital to the princes, for what the al-Saud care about most is US support.
As long as the Saudi regime meets America’s oil needs and fights Islamist radicals, it will continue to receive US support and silence – and hence its tacit consent.
Gligorov remembered looking up at his grandfather to correct him, and his grandfather placing his index finger over his mouth to silence him.
Moreover, Maliki has used the criminal courts to silence his political opponents.
The IMF was the first to break the silence, acknowledging that it had been urging debt relief but to no avail.
It was his ambition to subject the country to truly far-reaching social and political reforms that sealed his downfall and also brought about this new trial, which appears intended to silence him for good.
No, what is important is not the rants of men like Makashov and Kuvaev, but the ditherings of Zyuganov and the general silence of the Duma.
The combination of massive pressure from the Russian side and silence from the West could leave Georgia’s entire power system – both gas and electricity – in Russian hands.
Two years ago, the silence was broken briefly by Ken Attafuah, who directs Ghana's truth and reconciliation commission, charged with investigating rights violations during two decades of dictatorships.
In Ghana and in much of Africa, a culture of silence exists around same-sex love - a culture that many Westerners, raised on a belief in rights and openness - find unacceptable.
In sub-Saharan Africa, I am reminded of the saying that silence is golden.
Under the cover of silence, gays refrain from provoking the conflicts that a more vocal advocacy of homosexuality would bring.
Sanders’s Silence on IsraelBOSTON – No foreign country features as prominently in American presidential election campaigns as Israel, and those aspiring to occupy the world’s most powerful political office, whether Republican or Democrat, routinely proclaim their support for that tiny and distant country.
To some extent, Sanders’s silence can be explained by his broader aversion to discussing foreign-policy issues.
But, when it comes to Israel, Sanders’s silence also reflects a political calculation.
Sanders’s relative silence on Israel, therefore, serves as a reminder that Israel is not all that important to many, if not most, American Jews.
After an unconscionably long delay of seven days, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finally broke his incomprehensible silence about the rape.
Kissinger’s silence on this question was deafening, especially given that he was one of the inspirations for Stanley Kubrick’s classic political satire Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
This silence is all the more remarkable in view of two other recent developments in Washington, DC.
There was a moment of silence.
While Bengal’s long secular tradition, which drove its efforts to break away from Pakistan, is still alive and well, the corrosive impact of the radical Islamists – who use force to silence those with whom they disagree – is undeniable.
Time is running out, however, for them to satisfy their supporters and silence their critics by achieving it.
Indeed, the subsequent, deafening silence by other Saudi leaders to the proposal appears to confirm it as a public relations move for which they need not risk any of their own domestic political capital.
Faced with the living, breathing Gorbachev, however, there is awkward silence.
Other large-scale financial commitments were made to Oman and Jordan, both Saudi allies that have managed to silence early whispers of mass protest.
But when inadmissible norms become tolerated in silence, even the strongest juridical system becomes destabilized.
Eban's silence in the last years was not only a product of his disenchantment with Israeli politics or his failing health.
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