| The wooden door burst open as if a bomb exploded behind it, the sound penetrating through the already deafening silence. | 
 
 
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| The sound of crickets, mosquitoes, and the occasional hoot of an owl pierced the deafening silence. | 
 
 
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| Belarus is broadcasting to the European Union, but from our side there is nothing but a deafening silence. | 
 
 
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| In recent years Parliament has in fact maintained a deafening silence and not even challenged the lies put out by the Bush Administration. | 
 
 
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| At the end of his article, Hooper is surprised by the deafening silence of Italian media with regards to this evident conflict of interests. | 
 
 
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| Another reason accounts for the deafening silence surrounding Houthuesen's oeuvre. | 
 
 
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| My supplementary question also met with a contemptuous and deafening silence. | 
 
 
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| Unfortunately, we Africans have answered only with a deafening silence that can be heard everywhere. | 
 
 
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| Over the last twelve months, there has been no noisy brainstorming session about the future of Europe, but rather a deafening silence. | 
 
 
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| Elsewhere Andrew's engagements are met with a deafening silence and the roll of tumbleweed. | 
 
 
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| Also, there is no longer a deafening silence with regard to what eventually happens to the people in North Korea who do not fit into that model. | 
 
 
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| What does the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages have to say about the deafening silence of the Canadian government on this matter? | 
 
 
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| They know they will face either a swift backlash or deafening silence. | 
 
 
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| Kirsten Powers on the deafening silence from U.S. pews and pulpits. | 
 
 
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| Fr Iggy O'Donovan from Drogheda, Co Louth, said there has been a deafening silence since the decision was made to sell the pill over the counter. | 
 
 
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| Yesterday, the deafening silence of the neighbouring streets showed the feeling of community tragedy. | 
 
 
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| There's been a deafening silence for some time, but if he wants to chat that's fine with me. | 
 
 
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| That said, the fans did George Best proud by respectfully maintaining a deafening silence. | 
 
 
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| On 23 November, the participants watched in deafening silence the first part of the testimony by the first witness called by the Office of the Prosecutor. | 
 
 
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| The suggestion that they work through the holidays met with deafening silence. | 
 
 
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| The court's judgement caused a deafening silence as party supporters, who had thronged the court flamboyantly dressed, slipped out of the vicinity immediately after judgement. | 
 
 
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| The European Union was built on values and principles that we cannot disown with a deafening silence during an accession procedure for the sake of diplomacy. | 
 
 
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| Just as they tuned out the deafening craziness in San Francisco, the Dodgers tuned out the deafening silence here. | 
 
 
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| There remains, I must say, a deafening silence on our own inability to reduce the tide of regulation, which gravely damages our competitiveness and destroys jobs. | 
 
 
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| Going back to the previous question, why the deafening silence on behalf of the Prime Minister of Canada on an initiative where his government could have done something? | 
 
 
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| Given the long-standing and highly vocal opposition to nuclear testing, the deafening silence from the western peace movement when India and Pakistan carried out their nuclear tests in 1998 was remarkable. | 
 
 
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| Yet at a time when the process of European integration is so clearly running out of steam, such fundamental questions would have deserved better than this deafening silence. | 
 
 
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| What is remarkable, however, is the deafening silence when it comes to those who really are the weaker parties amongst us: the elderly, babies and the handicapped. | 
 
 
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| Today I say to this Minister of Justice, the cabinet and colleagues, now is the time to end the deafening silence and tell Canadians where we stand. | 
 
 
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| Eventual winner Dashmar crossed the line to a deafening silence and, to add to the farce, a horse called Canonbiebothered gave up and ran out at the first bend. | 
 
 
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| Let Priyanka explain all the Congress scandals and incompetencies eg inflation, unemployment, declining FDIs, etc, and her deafening silence all these years. | 
 
 
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