1. The investigators were confronted by a wall of silence.

2. The police investigation was met with a wall of silence.

3. The police say they met the usual wall of silence.

4. Blount met with a convenient wall of silence.

5. A wall of silence has now descended over the key players.

6. But the wall of silence that protected behind the scenes negotiations produced no answers.

7. Very soon a cold stone wall of silence had tormented them to wounded exasperation.

8. Frustrated by the white wall of silence,(http://) Skeeter begins to talk to the town's black maids.

9. Frustrated by the white wall of silence, Skeeter starts to talk to the town's unseen army of black maids.

10. The officials maintained a wall of silence around the talks.

11. Only Jim Crane, ambitious but a little more human than the other hacks, can break Alice's wall of silence.