How To Use Tacit In A Sentence

They said that as their longer "taciturnity" might cause the ruin of his Majesty's affairs, they were at last compelled to break silence. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed. The Sermons of John Owen
Lawson's ‘The Teams’ is still one of my favourite poems - partly because I know how accurate was Lawson's description of the taciturn, hard-working teamsters.
Ea ambage Chalcedonii monstrabantur quod priores illuc advecti, praevisa locorum utilitate pejora legissent Tacit. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It is a retreat inward and a tacit approval of injustice in society. Christianity Today

Are we to regard that as a tacit seal of approval for such a course of action?
Agrippa, and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him, osculantes obsecrarent ne id quod natura cogeret, ipse acceleraret, not to offer violence to himself, with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it: and so constantly died, precesque eorum taciturna sua obstinatione depressit. Anatomy of Melancholy
Thus he became a tacit assenter in wrong-doing, for circumstances thrust this, once in a while, upon the best of our citizens. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
In the one study I am aware of that focuses on sites close to Magude and addresses Iron Age developments in a lowveld region straddling the international border, the significance attached to pottery demonstrates both how archaeological mappings have tacitly marginalized this area from history and how gender ideologies have buttressed this representation. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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In the West, his reserve with men had been labelled taciturnity or swollen-headeduess, which did not fit the case at all; whilst, in spite of his perfect manner towards them, his indifference to woman _en masse_ or in the individual was supreme and sincere. The Hawk of Egypt
She tacitly accepts his offer.
But to come back to Tacitus for a second - he shows the other side, the treasonable side of the clerks of the Roman Empire.
She had become tense and taciturn, particularly with me, and for no reason that she would vouchsafe. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
In a bid to warn the people/your community of what is bad, there seem to be a tacit insinuation of what "Ibadan" stands for. Self-Motivation, Personal Growth and Entrepreneurship Development on DeoluAkinyemi.com
Among the rarest copper coins was one of Carausius (our English Carew), with two heads on it symbolling the ambition of our native usurper to assert empire over East as well as West, and among more treasure-trove was a unique gold coin of Veric, ” the Bericus of Tacitus; as also the rare contents of a subterranean potter's oven, preserved to our day, and yielding several whole vases. My Life as an Author
My father is an ex-serviceman. As he is introspective and taciturn, I seldom hear the word "love" in his speech even once. According to mother's evaluation, he is a thin-skinned man.
A run through the historical record, staring with Tacitus on Nero's blaming the Christians for the Great Fire, then Pliny on his administrative problems in Bithynia, then a long section on Cyprian (who I think gets more coverage than any other non-emperor); then a period of relaxation, which however is abruptly reversed by Diocletian (though that period of persecution seems to be more effective in the East). Gibbon Chapter XVI
Tough executives are tacitly understood to be well kempt on the outside, whilst inwardly crumbling, decaying, turning to sludge.
This man, taciturn, clearminded, laborious, inoffensive, zealous for no government and useful to every government, had gradually become an almost indispensable part of the machinery of the state. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
Media companies may operate tacit or explicit collusion just as easily as politicians.
But in her usual taciturn manner, the president kept silent, leaving it to her ministers to justify the hikes to the public.
It still seems to me that refusing to divorce a couple is a tacit recognition that the couple is legally married in the state of Texas. Think Progress » Texas’ Cruel Push To Prevent Same-Sex Couples From Divorcing
Tacitly she suggests a parallel between the fate of Hong Kong's submitting to a socialist government with the full integration of Britain into the EU.
He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks. The Bride of Lammermoor
There is at least a tacit nod to the unprepared canvases of Color Field paintings.
And there was the com - pletely tacit arrangement with Sally, which had a solid sort of satisfactoriness about it. Space Platform
Why, you know Tacitus saith, “In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna,” which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, “Luck can maist in the mellee.” Waverley
He was his usual taciturn self at the postgame press conference. Globe and Mail
And moving to a Copernican system was a great threat to this kind of sacred geography, uh, which was tacitly accepted but wasn't really honestly part of scripture.
For those masters who were also biological fathers to their slaves, the tacit disinheritance had double significance.
And I would say that Ann, as a tacit conder of a torturous regime, has lost that morale high ground as well. China sentences Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, to "re-education through labor."
Why, you know Tacitus saith, “In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna,” which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, “Luck can maist in the mellee.” Waverley
When we were alone together, we were rather shy with each other, tacitly agreeing to abandon the stand-up routine.
They've been given tacit permission, if not license, to hurl themselves at them.
They are the ones that are the problem, because they give tacit approval to the extremes. Times, Sunday Times
He is famously taciturn in interviews, and not big on stage patter either, preferring to flick through his back catalogue with the minimum of fuss. Times, Sunday Times
It was okay for boxers of 50 years ago to be taciturn, but today the champion is expected to be an entertainer.
I absolutely don't say I love you, this is between us the tacit understanding.
In the end, through an experiment on the formation of a tacit knowledge about math problem-solving, the author verifies the validity of the above suggestions and strategies.
Why, writing a tragedy himself, with a judgment far different from that exhibited in his panegyrical preface, he totally rejects, and therefore tacitly condemns and abjures the use of prose-poetry. Review
A stupendous drawing of Venus rising by Rubens, 30 artworks by Walter Sickert and a poignant note written by Gandhi that was his tacit approval for Indian partition are among a dozen artworks and archives now in the possession of the nation because of the 101-year-old Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Acceptance in Lieu scheme brings a dozen new gifts to the nation
He was seen as an effective leader, despite being taciturn and uncongenial.
Economists generally take for granted, if only tacitly, a teleological view of money's historical development, according to which it first takes the "primitive" form of mundane commodities such as cowrie shells and cacao seeds, and then advances through various stages, culminating in the national fiat monies most economies rely upon today. offers a spirited rebuttal to this naively "whiggish" perspective. EconLog
Miller was tacitly in favour of the open landscape, if his vivid and often sentimental descriptions of the surrounding open fields, commons and wastes are anything to go by.
More often, however, the mass media provide tacit support for untested and unsupported claims by saying nothing skeptical about even the most outlandish of claims.
It is hard to stay in power in Pakistan without the tacit support of the Army. Times, Sunday Times
He intends to go into management when he retires as a player, and already betrays some of the characteristics of his taciturn international mentor.
When Clinton placed responsibility upon the person responsible for the exfiltration of the data, as opposed to Wikileaks itself, she may have tacitly ceded that the networked world that we live in at present means that once information is shared, it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to control its spread. Alexander Howard: Secretary Clinton doubles down on Internet freedom at the State Department
We now consider what they imply for the analysis of tacit collusion.
A smart yet taciturn girl, she never complained and she always followed her instructions to the letter.
Dr Alec Clark, the president of ATL Cymru, said: As a union leader, I personally would tacitly welcome the idea of banding. WalesOnline - Home
It was, and remains, a struggle to obtain at least the tacit support of the population. Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War
Israel of course, tacitly backed by the do-nothing amurkan Department of State aka Condi Rice. Think Progress » U.S., France agree on cease-fire package.
A muscular, taciturn man with callused hands and a sunburned face, Hart normally pounds rock for oil or water. Jeff Hart, Chile Mine Driller From Denver, Becomes Rescue Hero
A dying LBJ retired to Texas and let his hair grow long, some say in tacit allegiance to the anti-war protesters who once marched outside his White House. McNamara and the souls of Vietnam
The tacit understanding is that whatever else happens inside is a matter between consenting adults.
Democrats in Boston tacitly acknowledged the potential power of this message as the word ‘liberal’ was scarcely heard all week.
Soon they were all talking at once, rumbling and roaring as big - chested open-air men will, when whisky has whipped their taciturnity. Chapter 4
It was in the same spirit that he had tacitly assented to Fitzpiers's domiciliation there.
Bäumker) as strophically arranged sacred songs in the vulgar tongue, which, because of their ecclesiastical character, are suitable to be sung by the whole congregation, and have been either expressly approved for this purpose by ecclesiastical authority, or at least tacitly admitted. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
The first question tacitly assumes that a paradoxical reality is a reasonable (in your favorite sense, i.e., coherent) counterproposition, or not a metaphysical proposition, or that reality does not exist. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
Letters: Unspeakable horrors were inflicted upon Poland during the war, but to tacitly assert that minorities in the Second Republic were not subject to discrimination and the kind of violence manifest in Nazi Germany in 1938 is a sickening falsehood Letters: Alone under a dictatorship
Richard claimed the crown on the ground that a precontract rendered his brother's marriage invalid, and Henry VII. tacitly allowed the same doubt to continue. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
Drunken games of darts in the local were watched by taciturn natives seething with resentment about property prices.
[263] The distinction between the Roman people and the tribes, is also observed by Tacitus, who substitutes the word plebs, meaning, the lowest class of the populace. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
Never the most outgoing of men, he remains as taciturn as ever.
Most genuine impossibilities can be made possible by enlarging the frame of reference, by relaxing the conditions tacitly taken as fixed in the original statement of impossibility.
There is at least a tacit nod to the unprepared canvases of Color Field paintings.
The removal of safety devices to speed up production, for instance, is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors.
The two main parties have become a cartel, operating a tacit understanding not to broach any important issue.
Both sides often come to a tacit agreement over a result. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
They ignored the command, tacitly agreeing to fight it out on land where it seemed safer for the belligerently inclined. Goliah
There are different kinds of intellection, and I think some of them are much more canny about tacit, implicit knowledge, than about scientific or explicit knowledge.
But Tacitus did not write according to the canons of modern historiography.
Rights groups called it a major error of judgment that gave tacit support to the regime. Times, Sunday Times
He was an extremely taciturn man, so it would have been totally out of character for him to have consciously chosen to make up that sort of thing.
The threat of which arrives in the person of Zhang (Sun Honglei), a taciturn detective hired by Wang to kill the adulterous couple.
Our greatest tacit understanding is I do not care, you ignored me.
But even at the highest levels there is a tacit acknowledgment that the system is not working properly.
At ego cuius acies lacrimis mersa caligaret nec dinoscere possem, quaenam haec esset mulier tam imperiosae auctoritatis, obstipui uisuque in terram defixo quidnam deinceps esset actura, exspectare tacitus coepi. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
Bersonin, who despite his taciturnity was a patient teacher, instructed me in Danish, but possibly because he himself only spoke it at second hand, I didn't take to it easily. Royal Flash
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By reconstructing her army life, she tacitly demonstrates women's equality with men.
Surely they own the site so must have given their tacit agreement before things got this far?
So, joining him in the suite are his taciturn driver and a talkative tailor named George.
My father was a very stern and taciturn man and my relationship with him wasn't good. Times, Sunday Times
And moving to a Copernican system was a great threat to this kind of sacred geography, uh, which was tacitly accepted but wasn't really honestly part of scripture.
And afflicted people will tacitly struggle against such connotations until the spectrum of acceptance broadens and mental impediments are no longer considered disabilities, but respected facts of life.
What animated this article is my sense that we have witnessed, and continue to witness, a largely tacit degradation in the vital axiom of international humanitarian law (IHL) that insists on the analytic independence of jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which, following Michael Walzer, I call the dualistic axiom. Opinio Juris
Although Beijing will not abandon its desire to "reunite" Taiwan with the mainland, it tacitly acknowledges the significance of this new era of cooperation. The Next Step in the Taiwan-China Dance
As the political darling of the resurgent military nation, Turenne's tomb tacitly reinstated the ‘vainglorious’ funerary monument and the theme of the dying hero in official funerary designs.
So far as the musician is a personal non-conformer and also a teacher (even if not a church organist), he is often compelled into a tacit agreement with the Recent Developments in European Thought
The question was a tacit admission that a mistake had indeed been made.
Khabur -- the Araxes of Xenophon -- flows from the Kurdistan mountains southwards, and runs into the Euphrates.] [Footnote 115: The Gozan river cannot be, as tacitly assumed by Asher, the Kizil Uzun (also known as the Araxes). The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
Of their surviving sons, Tilden is a taciturn headcase while Bradley is a sadistic brute who chopped off one of his legs with a chainsaw.
In later versions of the natural rate hypothesis, Friedman was tacitly to abandon this view altogether.
The taciturn landlord, never quite friendly, usually acceptably civil and occasionally helpful, must be a type specially bred to run such places.
Non videndum eft in fcriptoribus antiquis, quae vulgata ledtio fit: funt enim faepe in uno loco plures vulgats; atque etiam mendas vulgantur, ut centies in notis ad Tacitum docui: fed quae bona fit, e bonis libris & corredlis duda, & linguas legibus rebufque confentiens maxime. — C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia
In rugby, played by consenting adults who tacitly accept a degree of how's-your-father whenever they take the field, pretty much anything goes, especially in the darkened recesses of scrum, ruck and maul. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
All this might point to a tacit disappointment with the cinema as we know it and a yearning for the Platonic ideal we dream it capable of.
If a proposed solution involves tacitly changing these payoffs, then this ˜solution™ is in fact a disguised way of changing the subject. Game Theory
Why give tacit approval to the shabby treatment meted out to savers? Times, Sunday Times
I trained myself so well I now have to be careful not to be taciturn.
The expressions of tacit admission embrace two conditions, " no refutation " and " don't know " 、 " don't remember ".
This interpretation was then bolstered by Tacitus' dry laconic wit and Lucretius' pagan atomism.
Power hungry and aggressiveness is not tacitful and demeans one character. Clinton apologizes for RFK assassination comment
Even the somewhat taciturn, closemouthed Ravi thought that last part was pretty nifty. BARRACUDA 945
He was tacitly encouraging him to act in this way.
A taciturn man, Olivier still grieves for his son, who was murdered during an attempted car robbery some years before.
By tacit agreement , Clark's friends all avoided any mention of his mentally ill wife.
The prayer also represents a tacit acknowledgement by the Church of the plight of the wives and girlfriends of armchair football fans. Times, Sunday Times
If we see a member of the church of Christ living in obedience to the 'law of Christ,' we say he is a Christian, and speak of him as such; on the other hand, if we know he is in works denying Christ, being disobedient, we tacitly assume that he is not a Christian, yet a mawkish charity keeps us, in too many instances, from speaking out in this matter, and also keeps us from earnestly trying to distinguish the true Christian; and this is one of the great sins of the church in our times, for thus the wicked are not put to shame, and others are caused to hesitate in their graces by the conduct of those whom, in mawk charity, are called Christians. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880
There almost seems to be a resigned, a tacit acceptance, to try just to give Sharon a chance and see whether he can actually emasculate the militants in his policy.
His comments are a tacit admission that the police cannot protect all women from the attentions of would-be attackers.
A government official tacitly accepted that new tests are needed.
It implies a tacit admission of equality which can be almost priceless.
At such times he was remarkably taciturn, and would sit in brooding silence or go almost immediately to bed. CHAPTER XI
Rights groups called it a major error of judgment that gave tacit support to the regime. Times, Sunday Times
The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.
Our group was a taciturn group of actors from theater, TV, and film, and we didn't even really meet beforehand.
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. Mignon McLaughlin
By tacit agreement, the subject was never mentioned again.
There they were associated with the look and dress of a torrero, and our coachman, though an old Castilian of the austerest and most taciturn pattern, may have been in his gay youth an Andalusian bull-fighter. Familiar Spanish Travels
Both sides often come to a tacit agreement over a result. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
Ex falso sequitur quodlibet, from a false hypothesis anything can follow, likewise sums up your own m.o. all too well and all too frequently; whether subtly or more overtly and more arrogantly still; distorting what others say, then adding the pointed barb and the tacit, the barely unspoken “fuck-off”. The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional
He is famously taciturn in interviews, and not big on stage patter either, preferring to flick through his back catalogue with the minimum of fuss. Times, Sunday Times
So that as [3306] Tacitus said of the astrologers in Rome, we may say of them, genus hominum est quod in civitate nostra et vitabitur semper et retinebitur, they are a debauched company most part, still spoken against, as well they deserve some of them (for I so relish and distinguish them as fiddlers, and musicians), and yet ever retained. Anatomy of Melancholy
The only avenue left to them to excuse the extremists of their party whom they have been encouraging, tacitly or overtly, is to say “both parties do it.” Think Progress » GOP congressman: Palin’s ‘reload’ map with crosshairs targeted at House Democrats is ‘inappropriate.’
The national Democratic Party leadership tacitly supported the right-wing purge.
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Tacitus's remarks about the Germans not having intermarried with other tribes largely because of being cut off in their dark forests certainly gave credence to the Nazi claim that German blood was uniquely pure. Hitler's Golden Book
Locke also suggests that a man's presence in a particular state implies tacit consent to its political system.
His comments seem intended to lend weight to his argument that he acted with the tacit approval of bank executives, according to lawyers. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, I have found that, contrary to increasingly popular opinion, there is no lurking agenda within public education to secularize our students; there is no tacit understanding between teachers and the state to discourage students from their faith whatever that faith may be. Austin Carty: A Christian Plea For Public Education
He was true to his heritage in valuing hard work, frugality, practicality, and taciturnity.
The tacit admission reinforces the grimmest lesson of the American atrocities.
If I remember rightly Tacitus refers to Wales as being opposite Spain when he's drawing a comparison between the Silures and the Spanish tribes, and I think Julius Caesar refers to parts of southern Britain as being opposite Gaul. Attacotti
The other, lantern-jawed and taciturn, replied: ‘mongoose’.
` ` Why, you know, Tacitus saith ` _In rebus bellicis maxime dominatur Fortuna, + which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, ` Luck can maist in the mellee. The Waverley
When we were alone together, we were rather shy with each other, tacitly agreeing to abandon the stand-up routine.
His answer depends on a distinction between tacit and explicit consent.
The saddler gave it at so low a price that we perceived he must have tacitly abated something from the visual demand, and when we did not try to beat him down, his wife went again into that inner room and came out with an iron-holder of scarlet flannel backed with canvas, and fringed with magenta, and richly inwrought with a Moorish design, in white, yellow, green, and purple. Familiar Spanish Travels
JustACitizen.com and there is a petition to ungag FBI Whistleblower Edmonds and unredact her official 911 testimony and very interesting interviews where she asks questions of the most important things to look for when researching 911. Firedoglake » The Heckuva Job Bushie and GOP Weekend Round-Up
Whenever our asthmatical abbé would lead the conversation towards subjects relating to chemistry or alchemy, Boiviel would either avoid a direct reply or else fall into a state of profound taciturnity: and yet all his debts had been paid, including the various outstanding accounts due to his numerous landlords, and his dinners at the Croix de The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
The world has got to stop this craven, cloying, tacit support for a religious group, based on the obscenities of the past, regularly regurgitated as justification for 21st century human butchery.
I did my best to draw my fair companions into a little chat, but found my _vis-à-vis_ -- the daughter of my successor outside -- most impracticable; a monosyllable was the extent of her exertion: whilst her companion, who was a lively, intelligent-looking girl, and very pretty withal, was necessarily chilled by the taciturnity of her senior. Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I.
Even the somewhat taciturn, closemouthed Ravi thought that last part was pretty nifty. BARRACUDA 945
Media companies may operate tacit or explicit collusion just as easily as politicians.
He notes, for instance, ‘In all the cities of the Maghreb, the casbahs are the indigenous strongholds, centers of tacit and at times active resistance to the European colonial presence ‘.’
But London is providing encouragement to the fighters and tacit support for their funders. Times, Sunday Times
The following is a decisive, though what we call a tacit reference to Evidence of Christianity
Tacitus was the greatest historian in Ancient Rome.
The official reticence, and the tacit U.S. acceptance of Israel's nuclear monopoly, aggrieves Arab and Muslim powers. Winnipeg Sun
We know from the writings of Tacitus that the weather in Britain was terrible.
It was a secret he would never learn, for everyone from Ellen down to the stupidest field hand was in a tacit and kindly conspiracy to keep him believing that his word was law.
Such co-ordination would have the tacit support of the TUC. Times, Sunday Times
Destabilizing Iran goads Pakistan into the conflict (or their intelligence agency, anyway), would shift several of the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics closer to Russia and in tacit support of Iran, may cause Turkey to leave NATO, will lead to Lebanon and Syria launching an invasion of Israel … Think Progress » Rubio: ‘I Don’t Think Any Of Us Are Going To Blame Israel’ If They Decide To Attack Iran
And first to begin of politicians, it hath ever been a principal axiom with them to maintain religion or superstition, which they determine of, alter and vary upon all occasions, as to them seems best, they make religion mere policy, a cloak, a human invention, nihil aeque valet ad regendos vulgi animos ac superstitio, as [6386] Tacitus and [6387] Tully hold. Anatomy of Melancholy
There is tacit recognition of this fact within government circles.
According to M. Guizot, “Tacite a peint les Germains comme Montaigne et Rousseau les sauvages, dans un acces d’humeur contre sa patrie: son livre est une satire des moeurs Romaines, l’eloquente boutade d’un patriote philosophe qui veut voir la vertu la, ou il ne rencontre pas la mollesse honteuse et la depravation savante d’une vielle societe.” The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
These were a taciturn lot, slow-thinking, cautious and secretive.
I avoided his stares and finished the meal in silence, surprising Gretchen with my unaccustomed taciturnity.
Tacitus says that Augustus had a memoir, written in his own hand, which contained the revenues of the empire, the fleets and contributary kingdoms. A Philosophical Dictionary
That alone should give anyone of either party pause before tacitly endorsing an attack on the post-bellum Reconstruction policies of the Republican party.
Which we take as a tacit admission that the various crippleware schemes that the labels have tried, in an attempt to prevent audio CDs being ripped, have failed.
In a granite lobby a taciturn man in a tight suit shows me to the lift. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
Fancy a woman of superlative beauty, of the highest courage and calmness, a woman of many resources, of genius, brought up by a petty princelet of a father, upon Tacitus and Sallust, and the tales of the great Malatestas, of Caesar Borgia and such-like! Hauntings
He was also taciturn, but enumerated that he wanted a relationship with me.
Fellow members nod and wink to one another in recognition and in tacit acknowledgement of shared belonging.
Morris's captaincy potential has been tacitly, but very publicly condemned by his own club.
2 Indeed, the very expectation of female quiescencethe normative value placed on rural women's silent acceptance of their social position, on their tacit agreement not to make troublehas made public forms of oral historical memory (e.g., praise poetry, clan "geochronology," 3 dynastic accounts) in Shangaan communities problematic and mostly off-limits for women. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
There is no such writing as this in any of the works of Tacitus, who, though curt and concise, is always remarkable for concinnity and clearness of expression as well as for perspicuity and consecutiveness of idea. Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
The firm, in tacit collaboration with the other firms in the industry, has wholly sufficient power to set and maintain minimum prices. The Non-Economist's Economist
Actual monuments or public architecture imbued with monumental significance function as metonyms of civic pride and power, as well as tacitly understood repositories of the nation's ‘sacred’ memories.
The deal had the tacit approval of the President.
An English text of the "1992 Consensus" that was published in Beijing Review a few years ago only stated that the Taiwanese "authorities" would undertake never to assert 'de iure' independence, which - to an English lawyer, anyway - implies a tacit acknowledgement that they already have and have always had de facto independence. Lung Yingtai Waves About Meaningless Statistics, Declares Sovereignty of Sealand
Normally shy and taciturn, Daoud was quite a conversationalist when he was with us. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
He was a rather taciturn individual who discouraged chatter in the theatre.
This kind of tacit knowledge system does not attempt to capture and catalog the specific ‘knowledge’ that an individual might have.
Being in this film, then, is tacit approval of what the film is trying to say. Times, Sunday Times
The Promotion of Volunteering Bill has even gained the tacit support of the government.
By remaining in society, one gives one's tacit consent to it.
Middle Ages, while others, such as Lucretius, Tacitus, and Manilius, although extant in a few but neglected medieval manuscripts, had to be rediscovered by the humanists. HUMANISM IN ITALY
Those who worked with the taciturn Field Marshall revered him.
The appointing of men of his own to guard the sojourner is a tacit admission to the effect that serious, danger really threatened. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
Many of the films of this period cut to the flesh and blood of European colonialism, compelling us to reflect on our latent racism, our repressed sexuality, and the tacit assumptions of our intellectual heritage.
This quiet and taciturn man has been as responsible as any individual for the rise in England's fortunes.
It brought us within the pale of science but at a price: the tacit agreement that we never declare psi to have been proven.
Petitioner asserts in a posttrial memorandum that he was "duped by a charlatan and in essence Robert Gruntz tacitly implied that I should fabricate a log that would show 'material participation'". May it please the Court, just Google it (Jack Bog's Blog)
It seemed that from the top there was tacit approval of doping. Times, Sunday Times
That we have not the whole Davideis is, however, not nauch to be re - gretted; tor in this undertaking Cowley is, tacitly at leaft, confefTecl to have mifcarried. The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes. ..
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Tacitus admired the Germanic tribes, Herodotus the barbarian Scythians, Ibn Khaldun the nomadic Beduin, and the Chinese the Mongols. [more ...] Archive 2010-02-01
It implies a tacit admission of equality which can be almost priceless.
They're famously taciturn, and make no allowance for outsiders. Times, Sunday Times
Even more important was Edward's tacit approval of the use his brother made of his northern power.
The bottom line is that the party maintains a rhetorical commitment to small government but tacitly admits that their cause is hopeless.
Nevertheless, there was a certain tacit understanding, without any obligation, a certain tacit understanding, that the probability was that if war broke out we would all find ourselves in it together, and it followed from that that we were prepared in times of peace to get together and try to coordinate our actions. Fiftieth Anniversary Meeting: Some Aspects of the Commonwealth
His enemies imply that his resignation is a tacit admission of guilt.

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