51.   The news was greeted with a stony silence and a threatened unanimous resignation.

52.   Until Thursday, China had maintained a stony silence on a strongly pro-human rights speech Tuesday by U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton.

53.   But his tone contrasted with misgivings expressed by NATO members France, Spain and Greece and a stony silence from Turkey.

54.   But his rallying call, delivered in a farewell speech to the assembly he nurtured, met with stony silence or scorn even among his allies.

55.   Current NATO diplomats however continue to back Claes, or at least maintain a stony silence on his position.

56.   Turkey greeted the cruise missile attack with stony silence.

57.   US press reports of the Bush decision came on a Russian public holiday and officialdom here met the news with stony silence.

58.   Kinshasa authorities maintained a stony silence over the reports of a counter-offensive by their troops, who have been easily routed by rebels in the previous months.

59.   Meanwhile, the Bosnian Serb leadership maintained a stony silence on the question of the charges.