1.   He seemed to take my silence as an invitation to talk.

2.   After a few weeks, when she had heard nothing, she left another note, not taking the silence personally.

3.   But officials here took his silence as a willingness to at least consider an offer from his home state.

4.   I had taken silence.

5.   She said that he did not respond, and she took his silence as assent, although she also said that Jordan did not instruct her to lie.

6.   The meetings here are partly a recognition by the Zapatistas that they took their silence too far.

7.   But her silence has been taken as a positive reply.