"I've got to tell you, if somebody is doing some campaigning, they've got the quietest campaign I've ever seen," he said.

It said the government had "waged a quiet campaign against narcotics corruption in the ranks."

The Liberals made no new, radical proposals during their campaign, but instead ran a quiet campaign with occasional attacks on the opposition parties.

"Through our dealer organization we have begun a quiet campaign to encourage music studies in schools."

This peculiar dynamic created an unusually quiet and slow-paced campaign.

On the whole it was reported as being a quiet campaign compared with some.

Purse had a quiet 2003-04 campaign, making only nine Premier League appearances.

All belonged to museums and private collections, some for more than a century, until the Zunis launched a quiet, careful campaign to win them back.

In recent years the Government has begun a quiet campaign to tighten up access to hazardous germs.

At the start, there were signs that it might be a quiet campaign.