31.   The announcement was met by stony silence.

32.   The case for continuing a stony silence toward Cuba, say such voices, rests on a false assumption that the Cuban government is a monolithic entity.

33.   The Curley family aggressively lobbied for capital punishment and watched in stony silence from the House gallery Tuesday night, wearing yellow ribbons in memory of Jeffrey.

34.   The kids might balk, call you old-fashioned or sit in stony silence at first.

35.   The news left DeLay in stony silence.

36.   The rest is stony silence.

37.   Then he is elected and precipitates a period of rocky relations or stony silence between Washington and Beijing.

38.   They sit in stony silence, like disapproving parents, when things go bad.

39.   They were the ones who kept stony silence while members of the Labor-dominated House of Commons standing behind them bellowed their approval at mention of the reform.

40.   They pass in stony silence.