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.