His parents, who have maintained a public silence throughout the trial, were not with him.

He, too, has decided to keep a public silence.

This long public silence is in a way emblematic of the music itself.

To all the signals, Johnson had for months offered a public silence.

They were the sort who lead useful, active private lives in public silence.

Since then, he has maintained a near public silence and declined to make any criticism of the Obama administration.

Management officials have adopted a public silence on Torborg's status.

Given the firm's obsession with secrecy, its determined public silence, why had he decided now to open up?

There was public silence from the Kremlin in the hours after the verdicts were read.

Thus far, there has been public silence from the Kremlin on the death threat.