1.   All that remained on the barren expanse was a deafening silence.

2.   But while those hotspots are continuously monitored by diplomats and the media, the Chechen misery prompts nothing but a deafening silence.

3.   Once again the answer was a deafening silence.

4.   We submitted a carefully considered response at the end of June, since when there has been a deafening silence.

5.   When we ask people for suggestions we get a deafening silence.

6.   De Gaulle followed his mysterious departure with a deafening silence.

7.   Although they were met with deafening silence from economists at the time, Vickrey auctions gradually have been put into practice to good effect in a variety of situations.

8.   But the game went away, leaving a deafening silence.

9.   His loneliness, his deafening silence, will last forever.

10.   That deafening silence you hear is the sound of presidential hopefuls debating whether government should intervene in the wage-setting process to help people afford a better life.