How To Use Tacitly In A Sentence

  • By saying she doesn't remember she is tacitly accepting the truth by not challenging it.
  • By pleading economic necessity, the company tacitly rules out of court all arguments based on morality or claims that they are supporting deviance.
  • On the one hand, in common usage, the term ‘grammar’ metonymically represents linguistic organization, even language itself, tacitly subsuming areas such as vocabulary and pronunciation.
  • For both tacitly assume that language learning, including syntactic learning, is not (or not entirely) subserved by special-purpose mechanisms. Innateness and Language
  • He doesn't apologise, just tacitly admits that yeah, maybe it is all these things.
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  • 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
  • Magda heard him out, smiled tacitly with peasant slyness.
  • That alone should give anyone of either party pause before tacitly endorsing an attack on the post-bellum Reconstruction policies of the Republican party.
  • Tacitly, the land became private property.
  • The election of Obama also offers, many believe, a chance for redemption: redemption from allowing unprovoked warfare that has killed and injured many Americans, and an unknown amount of Iraqi citizens; tacitly accepting torture, permitting a denegation of our civil rights, and through rampant deregulation allowing economic devastation which has ripped the entire fabric of the economy. Paula B. Mays: Ebenezer Scrooge - Hope, Redemption and the 2008 Election
  • We still trudge off to work in the morning, tacitly accepting that we're stuck with whatever life deals us.
  • These axioms tacitly specify the arity of a combinator as well as their reduction (or contraction) pattern. Combinatory Logic
  • Not taking legal action would mean tacitly accepting the decision of ministers.
  • The carnage was tacitly condoned by public officials and law enforcement officers.
  • He was tacitly agreeing that her talents were worthless.
  • The bottom line is that the party maintains a rhetorical commitment to small government but tacitly admits that their cause is hopeless.
  • 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. ..
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • they are tacitly expected to work 10 hours a day
  • This v. ns in plain terms avowing what the governor at first charged them with tacitly intending. The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies [microform] : containing an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, Captain of the Royal Spanish Guards, and member of the Royal Academy of History
  • He descended to the cabin to bid a ceremonious, and, it may be, tacitly rebukeful adieu. The Piazza Tales
  • Isn't that tacitly comparing yourself to a p enis? McCain Campaign Slams New York Times: Not A Journalistic Organization "By Any Standard"
  • The people of the community tacitly withdraw their support.
  • It is all of that, because, again, when the population all of a sudden shifts from either tacitly accepting or maybe even actively supporting Al Qaeda and seeing them cloaked in the term resistance, and then seeing them for what they are, which is the purveyors of extremist ideology, indiscriminate violence and even oppressive practices. CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2008
  • He was tacitly, if not even explicitly, a determinist. Libertarian Redistribution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Surely he has tacitly consented, despite his irresponsible attitude.
  • While he quarreled with descriptions of his speaking style as "soporific," Kerry tacitly acknowledged that he failed to connect with enough voters on a personal level. 'I'M GOING TO LEARN'
  • Morris's captaincy potential has been tacitly, but very publicly condemned by his own club.
  • He too, advanced to the foot of the catasta and there faced the imperious beauty, whom the whole city had, for the past two years, tacitly agreed to obey in all things. "Unto Caesar"
  • These barriers, located in the near environment, sometimes unknowingly accepted by us and often tacitly deployed through routine decisions and judgments, persist as a vestige of our liminality…
  • Feeling unequal to the challenge, many officials tacitly acknowledged the power of these de facto satraps.
  • A succession of administrations, both Republican and Democratic, had tacitly endorsed this view.
  • As with low-tar tobacco, low-alcohol beer, or low-fat cheese, it tacitly acknowledges the health concerns related to business as usual, but instead of promoting change it has watered down the product, slapped on a new label, raised the price, and aimed for an even bigger market. When a Billion Chinese Jump
  • Art in that era was tacitly defined in terms of creating beauty, and that creation was in turn put on equal footing with efforts at expanding the boundaries of knowledge.
  • ‘Naturally,’ replies Sir Humphrey, thus tacitly conceding the demand not to reveal his predecessor's mistakes.
  • If the government takes over a bank, the taxpayers tacitly acquire its assets, thereby inheriting all the uncertainties over valuation.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • It was in the same spirit that he had tacitly assented to Fitzpiers's domiciliation there.
  • Democrats in Boston tacitly acknowledged the potential power of this message as the word ‘liberal’ was scarcely heard all week.
  • 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.
  • Dr Alec Clark, the president of ATL Cymru, said: As a union leader, I personally would tacitly welcome the idea of banding. WalesOnline - Home
  • They ignored the command, tacitly agreeing to fight it out on land where it seemed safer for the belligerently inclined. Goliah
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • When we were alone together, we were rather shy with each other, tacitly agreeing to abandon the stand-up routine.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Tough executives are tacitly understood to be well kempt on the outside, whilst inwardly crumbling, decaying, turning to sludge.
  • She tacitly accepts his offer.
  • If a proposed solution involves tacitly changing these payoffs, then this ˜solution™ is in fact a disguised way of changing the subject. Game Theory
  • That alone should give anyone of either party pause before tacitly endorsing an attack on the post-bellum Reconstruction policies of the Republican party.
  • 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
  • When we were alone together, we were rather shy with each other, tacitly agreeing to abandon the stand-up routine.
  • The national Democratic Party leadership tacitly supported the right-wing purge.
  • 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.’
  • A government official tacitly accepted that new tests are needed.
  • 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
  • He was tacitly encouraging him to act in this way.
  • 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
  • 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
  • In later versions of the natural rate hypothesis, Friedman was tacitly to abandon this view altogether.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • By reconstructing her army life, she tacitly demonstrates women's equality with men.

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