Our failures -- for example, to get the Pan Am 103 bombers out of Libya to stand trial, or to get more information out of the Saudi Government about the 1995 and 1996 bombings -- are the result of conscious but unspoken Government decisions about political priorities.
For example, the women reported experiences in which "relationship capital" — whom you know and trust — was an important but unspoken factor in decisions about promotions.
Her choices are obviously based more on instinct than wisdom, and the unspoken imperatives behind her decision anchor the story.
No woman working in a male-dominated industry (or, really, any industry) will fail to recognize that what Mr. Jones was willing to put into words is a prejudice that lurks unspoken in many hiring decisions (and isn't limited to men).
"Unfortunately, some of Trump's advisers and appointees appear to be willful, intractable, and committed to their own unspoken agendas, making their decisions without concern for him, his image or his campaign promises".
Instead, life-affirmation comes from something unspoken but more powerful -- the decision to leave one's life path, the safety of home, for the genuinely dangerous, $14-a-day 14-a-dayogical and physical minefield.
Surely, the grief surrounding Roth's retirement, in the spoken and unspoken connections linking Roth's decision with just about everything else, marks a cultural movement in some sense.
"They were concrete choices made by this country's most influential decision-makers after unspoken and explicit weighing of costs and benefits".
If you're in your twenties or thirties and don't have kids, a buzz of unspoken questions about your childbearing decisions might have hovered around your Thanksgiving table last weekend.
Wu Xiaomei had once told a caller the same thing, and Ma Li agreed that this decision should remain completely unspoken.
