Lots of scientists are interested in how cells maintain this state of quiescence and then resume cell division.

BBC: Fish in 'suspended animation'

One important cause of the recent quiescence of wage pressure may be that prices in general are being held down for other reasons.

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There had been a spate of rumours that Mr Sharon's unwonted quiescence attested to a decline of his physical prowess: aged 73, he was said to be vacant and forgetful.

ECONOMIST: Israel

Her victory could rouse the party from its quiescence.

ECONOMIST: India

Theirs was the backlash of a paternalist establishment to a mutiny by a member of a caste dog-tired of paternalism--a caste to which protection had been promised in exchange for quiescence, but which, at long last, had tired of this quiescence.

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