Sentences with word «omerta»
"Omertà" is a term used to describe a code of silence or unspoken rule, especially within organized crime groups. It means keeping quiet and not cooperating with authorities, even when faced with questioning or threats. Full definition
All the newspaper groups, bar the magnificent exception of the Guardian, maintained a culture of omerta around phone - hacking, even if (like the Telegraph) they had not themselves been involved.
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For once address the cover ups and forced omerta / silence.
While we have abided by the rules of omerta in public, there have obviously been strategic deliberations.
Breaking the traditional omerta observed by jurors, she wrote an article in October that has overshadowed the latter stages of this year's prize.
In 2012, breaking the European omerta on wind farm mortality, the Spanish Ornithological Society (SEO / Birdlife) reviewed actual carcass counts from 136 monitoring studies.
LIBOR's demise may come as a welcome relief to David Green QC, director of the Serious Fraud Office, for whom the term has almost become omerta: he has developed a total silence on the subject.
Sheldon Silver's fox, former Assemblywoman Janele Hyer - Spencer, flaunted her relationship with the then - speaker, but their fellow lawmakers remained mum about it in accordance with a time - honored political code of omerta, a Democratic insider said.
Church enforced «omerta» no less Billy.
one was too many but a hundred was not enough, not that the Vatican gave a damn, omerta was ordered.
With Nissan insiders under a strict, mafia - like code of omerta (silence), the Tokyo grapevine reports that the 2008 production car will have a twin - turbo V - 6 engine displacing about 3.8 liters and producing somewhere between 400 and 500 hp.
I must obey the laws of omerta.