Sentences with phrase «tacit understanding»
"Tacit understanding" refers to an unspoken agreement or mutual understanding between people who do not express their thoughts or feelings directly. It means that they have a shared understanding without necessarily discussing it openly. Full definition
But, from what I read, it appears that there is no single set of standards in play and governing the peer review process, and many standards appear to be nothing more than tacit understandings often interpreted differently if for no other reason than that the standards are rarely even discussed.
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The presence of so many SRLs is highlighting many of our collective tacit understandings in legal practice, which they [self - reps] do not necessarily share.»
«To enable... meaningful conversations» reflects Facebook's tacit understanding that its platform is more echo chamber than discovery mechanism.
More to the point, it would be an almost pointless exercise since Texas hospitals seem to have a tacit understanding that they will honor each other's futile care determinations.
The metaphor of the body carries the tacit understanding that partnership is not among equals.
We can attempt to articulate this tacit understanding by suggesting that both camps are working with the inchoate idea that tyranny is present when a law or a governmental policy or a social practice in some way harms human beings by adversely affecting the developing course of their life.
The polarization has been created, of course, by those who for thirty years have been bent upon overthrowing the laws and tacit understandings that made for relative civil peace.
There would be even fewer among us today, when every i and t in the realm of the spirit must be legalistically dotted and crossed, every apprehension converted to a proposition, every tacit understanding translated to a slogan scrawled on public walls.
I think Bill Belichick stays for 2018 and beyond with a tacit understanding the McDaniels gets the HC job when Bill finally retires.
Lancman's announcement appears to reflect a tacit understanding that the 9th Congressional District will still exist after the lines are redrawn for the entire state ahead of the primaries this spring.
Such goals are often adopted with the tacit understanding that they are good for a speech or a headline, but the view is, «Oh, don't take them seriously, they're just words.»
In addition to public utilities, startup companies like Ocean Renewable Power Co. are now getting involved with the tacit understanding that even if tidal energy's potential is limited, it can still be profitable.
Part of Reynolds» routine is to pick a young woman to be his muse and mistress, with the tacit understanding that the relationship will be temporary.
«We had this tacit understanding that if the studio pushed me about something — «You don't want to really fry a cat, do you?»
Although Whale's and Goulding's war experiences doubtless helped them land these assignments, the fact that two of Hollywood's gay male directors could really only venture into such «male» territory in these films seems to belie a tacit understanding of the homosocial romances so necessary for men to survive in combat, and how these are often cruelly broken amid postwar chaos.
Therefore the answer is yes, because Carmen Ejogo (as Coretta Scott King) and Lorraine Toussaint (as Amelia Boynton) have a brief conversation in which Amelia gives Corey a moment of warmth, encouragement, and tacit understanding.
There is a tacit understanding that «what occurs online stays online.»
he said, and I realized that he was playing along in our tacit understanding to let this stay between us.
But the tacit understanding here is that only a careful, conscious approach can succeed in this deeply glutted marketplace — whatever one's mode or approach might be — and that one writer's place and process in that arena may in no way match the righteous rhumba of another's.
Certainly there's already a tacit understanding that Sony wants PS Now on iOS and Android devices.
During the 20th century, while American artists did not generally take the country's integrity for granted, they did tap the rich vein of its mythic virtue with a tacit understanding that it was not all illusory.
The American Century During the 20th century, while American artists did not generally take the country's integrity for granted, they did tap the rich vein of its mythic virtue with a tacit understanding that it was not all illusory.
As a cohort, the works in Sing the Body propose a multiplicity of silent and pronounced ways in which our shared desire to create cohesion from experiential fragments underscores a tacit understanding of our own precarity.
For example, the process of becoming painstakingly explicit about informa - tion and rules that is necessary to the successful construction of artificial systems accords with the basic clinical aspiration of surfacing and critically examining the tacit understandings and modes of interaction that underlie the behavior of legal actors.
Thankfully, the skills I've learned at both school and work have led to more victories than defeats, as well as a tacit understanding that one need not attend UBC or the University of Victoria to practice law in B.C.