"silent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- By disobeying them, the daughter calls into question her mother's life - her silent submission to the ritual of forced marriage.
- On this occasion, as on others, my course was silent submission.
- Filipinos are showing us that free speech knows no boundaries, and that silent submission to injustice need not be the price of doing business in Asia.
- According to csmonitor.org, the government has gone beyond the crushing of political dissent to what "appears" to be an attempt to "psychologically humiliating the island's Shiite majority into silent submission."
- There was something in his mute, unstinting labor, repairing weapons he himself couldn't carry, which said all that needed to be said about centuries of silent submission.
- This is a terrifying indictment, and one to heed: silent submission to state criminality can and does occur at any time and anywhere.
- The isolated military has tried to intimidate President Aristide's supporters into silent submission.
- Gray Harbor seemed prepared to continue, but then he stopped himself and bent his head in silent submission.
- The Turks threatened to overwhelm Nevers and his bodyguard threw themselves to the ground in silent submission to plead for the life of their liege lord.
- They want to intimidate us into silent submission.
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