Word: tacitly
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...tough so long after the fact? By letting the demonstrations happen at all, Shanghai's leaders appeared to give tacit approval to the anti-Japanese movement...
...summiteers blandly "noted with appreciation" explanations given by Jordan's King Hussein and by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, of a Middle East peace initiative that the two men put together in February. Even so, to the optimistic Jordanians, that relatively opaque reference amounted to a tacit go-ahead for their peace plan from the rump assembly...
...several decisions past Reagan, who agreed, for example, to reject the latest offer by House Democrats on the budget. But Regan determined on his own the White House response to a Federal Reserve Board move that allowed a faster-than-planned expansion of the nation's money supply: tacit approval, signaled by making no comment at all. Said Republican Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, assessing Regan's performance: "He is the acting President. He will be the Sherman Adams of this Administration...
Behind Botha's obdurate stand is the tacit admission that his tentative reforms over the past two years have been less than successful. His white constituents, the majority of them Afrikaners, whose African roots go back to the landing of Dutch settlers in Cape Town in 1652, are more split than ever. A verligte (enlightened) faction, which forms a significant part of Botha's ruling National Party, is aware that some form of political accommodation with blacks must come eventually. A verkrampte (literally "cramped," or hard-line) breakaway group is determined to keep things as they are, if by sjambok...
...accustomed to secular ones. And I guess I could see where he was coming from: it’s pleasant to imagine Costa Ricans heading, en masse, to the beach, pleasant to think that you could arrive at a place and find a celebration underway, everyone, by mutual, tacit consent, already having a good time, all together, drinking, wearing the same color, happy...