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• s  implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  a tacit agreement

• The ovetures for peace by the feuding warlords was a tacit admission that their strategy of mindless violence was not working.
• The Pakistanis will have to stop giving tacit support and protection to terrorists, especially the Afghan Taliban.
• By tacit agreement, the Federation's 4,300,000 Malays under Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman wielded political power.

• silent
• understood

News & Articles

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• Alexander to Reid: Mess With the Filibuster at Your Own Peril
  It's the procedural version of mutually assured destruction. Democrats are sick of Republicans threatening to use the filibuster to slow down progress; Republicans are sick of Democrats suggesting they might change Senate rules to get their way. The tacit counterthreat from the GOP is now explicit: if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid deploys the so-called "nuclear option"—eliminating the ...
  June 18, 2013 - National Journal via Yahoo! News
• States Ease Use of Life Policies for Elder Care
  State lawmakers are encouraging elderly residents to use life insurance as a way to pay for long-term care—and lower the Medicaid tab in the process. The strategy marks a tacit endorsement of so-called ...
  June 17, 2013 - The Wall Street Journal via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Morgan Tsvangirai in AFP
  Asked who else was orchestrating the violence, Tsvangirai said: "We know the people who are calling the shots. We know the man who has given tacit approval -- he is the commander in chief."
• Anthony Weiner in New York Sun
  We need to send a crystal clear message to the Saudi Arabian government that their tacit approval of terrorism can't go unpunished,Mr. Weiner said. "Saudi Arabia should not get an ounce of military support from the US until they...
• Ban Ki-moon in Reuters
  Or it is used as a weapon in armed conflict, condoned through tacit silence and passivity by the state and the law enforcement community,said Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister who became secretary-general on January 1.