| The two main parties have become a cartel, operating a tacit understanding not to broach any important issue. |
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| The tacit understanding is that whatever else happens inside is a matter between consenting adults. |
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| It is submitted that this represented no more than a tacit understanding between staff members. |
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| Indeed, there was a tacit understanding that the consideration of issues as contentious as terrorism and nuclear safety should not risk derailing the negotiations. |
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| More abstractly, such understanding of risk was predicated on the implied failure of rehabilitative interventions and the tacit understanding of incapacitation as a preferable penal strategy. |
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| Taking advantage of the brotherly strife, and perhaps with the tacit understanding of Cadwaladr, the marcher lords mounted incursions into Wales. |
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| There seemed to be a tacit understanding that the prisoners and the unit supervisor should not look at one another...at least not eye-to-eye. |
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| The Anglican ethos rests on an unspoken consensus, a tacit understanding that all manner of crankiness and eccentricity can be tolerated as long as the family somehow stays intact. |
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| But there is also a temptation to renege to gain sales, much as one prisoner might end up ratting on another. Yet in the right circumstances a tacit understanding can endure. |
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