11.   The market responded with deafening silence.

12.   There are long scenes of deafening silence, when all you hear is shallow, labored breathing or boots crunching in the snow.

13.   There was a deafening silence.

14.   But when Ahmad visited his hometown of Kandahar last year, he found a deafening silence.

15.   When athletic director Joe Castiglione named him to restore the glory of the Switzer and Bud Wilkinson eras, the choice was met with almost deafening silence.

16.   But there was a deafening silence on the part of Fujimori himself on the subject of the tunnel, the existence of which seemed all but officially confirmed.

17.   But the new currency plan has been received with a deafening silence from the International Monetary Fund.

18.   Journalists were barred from covering the meeting and unusually there was a deafening silence from Egyptian officials.

19.   The Bundesbank and Bank of France raised the curtain on exceptionally low short-term interest rates on Thursday but markets responded with a deafening silence.