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Most recently, out-of-date public-order charges have been used to pursue democracy campaigners in Hong Kong and silence dissent.
This vagueness – or rather silence – about the Holocaust, and Hungarian collaboration in it, is part of a wider, disturbing trend in Hungary.
The technologies themselves could be adaptive rather than hubristic, designed to empower society rather than silence it.
Ending the Mental Health StigmaOAKLAND – The world faces an epidemic of mental health problems that cuts across borders, economies, and cultures and carries a stigma that leaves people suffering in silence.
No one should suffer in silence with a condition that can be treated and even prevented in some cases.
The rapturous applause following Biden’s appearance was markedly at odds with the awkward, stony silence that followed Pence’s address.
The silence grew too unbearable, though it had not lasted more than a minute.
A silence followed.
Taking advantage of the first moment of silence, Levin got up, wishing to free himself if only for a few minutes from his painful sensations, and said he would fetch his wife.
Having finished the prayer, the priest touched the cold forehead with his cross which he then wrapped in his stole, and after standing in silence another two minutes, touched the enormous bloodless hand, which was growing cold.
And raising her eyes to Heaven she began to pray, as Karenin understood from her silence.
I am not able to raise her...''But I don't consider that she has fallen lower than hundreds of people whom you do receive!' said Vronsky still more gloomily, and rose in silence, having understood that his sister-in-law's determination was final.
The Countess's silence had made her feel humble, but the letter and what she read between its lines so irritated her, its malevolence seemed so revolting when compared with her passionate and legitimate love for her son, that she became indignant with others and ceased to blame herself.
He pressed against her in silence, and then whispered:'Don't go – he is not coming yet!'His mother moved him away from her, to see whether he really believed what he was saying; and in the frightened look on his face she saw not only that he was speaking about his father, but that he was, as it were, asking her what he ought to think of him.
The valet, conscious that he was not to blame, was about to defend himself, but, glancing at his master saw by his face that there was nothing for it but to keep silence; so, stooping quickly, he knelt on the carpet and began sorting out the whole and broken glasses and bottles.
Kitty was the first to break the silence.
They went a few paces in silence.
It would have been easier after a silence to say what they wished to say than after talking about mushrooms; yet against her will, and as if by accident, she said:'So you have not found anything?
Levin sat listening to them and frowning, in an easy chair in his wife's bedroom, meeting her inquiries as to what was the matter with stubborn silence.
What a lot of them there are!' said she after a moment's silence, repeating her question.
She waited for what more he would say; but he walked by her side in silence, prodding the gravel with his stick as he went.
There they erect buildings rationally...'The conversation passed on to the abuses in the government of the United States, but Anna quickly turned it to another theme so as to draw the steward out of his silence.
and the German, drawn from his silence, turned to Vronsky.
The conversation among the diners – except the doctor, the architect and the steward, who sat in gloomy silence – was incessant, now gliding smoothly, now catching on something and touching one or other of them to the quick.
There was silence in the hall, and the Secretary loudly announced that Michael Stepanich Snetkov, Captain of the Guards, was nominated for the post of Provincial Marshal, and that the ballot would now be taken.
Then followed a dead silence, and a feeble voice was heard saying:'Declines!''Court Councillor Peter Petrovich Bol will now be balloted for,' cried the voice of the man in uniform.
Both kept silence.
And amid the silence, as a positive answer to the mother's question, a voice quite unlike all the restrained voices that had been speaking in the room made itself heard.
Look at her, see that her heart was torn by despair, and go out in silence with that calmly indifferent look?
Koznyshev had calculated exactly the time necessary for a review to be written; but a month passed, and another, and the silence continued.
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