Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That would have been tacit recognition of the second vote, and we were not about to do that," Sullivan said
...military commission's ruling power rests largely on the tacit approval of Tanzanian President Nyerere. It was Nyerere who brought Amin's downfall by dispatching 20,000 troops into Uganda, and he has watched over the troubled land with a godfatherly eye ever since. Some 10,000 Tanzanian soldiers have remained there, ostensibly to ensure internal peace. Though the takeover reportedly surprised Nyerere, he instructed his troops not to oppose the Ugandan army, but only to protect Binaisa from execution. Kenya, meanwhile, remains apprehensive about Nyerere's motives; Nairobi has long feared that the Tanzanian leader plans...
...meetings, our speakers, our study groups, our dinners, our theatrical and musical productions, and our parties. Our cooperative efforts to realize this goal will heighten our political awareness. For in the end, Third World people have no choice but to be political. Refusal to fight against our oppression is tacit approval of our oppression. Remember...
...Christmas invasion, appeared to be on the verge of collapse. It was not only shown up as ineffective, it was practically invisible as well. A proclamation that imposed martial law on Kabul effectively gave ultimate civil as well as military authority to Moscow's army commander. With this tacit admission by the Soviets that they were the only real authority in the country, some diplomatic observers predicted they might also soon do away altogether with the fiction of an indigenous government and replace Karmal with a Kremlin-appointed proconsul. Karmal himself was believed to have holed up inside...
DiGiovanni's well-advertised plan was enough to make city leaders willing to back Harvard's purchase, despite their habitual wariness of the University's real estate dealings. Informed of the negotiations several months ago, Cambridge officials gave their tacit support and then kept quiet for fear of upsetting the deal...