Sentence examples for pact of silence from inspiring English sources
"The pact of silence was more than a family affair.
Many historians deny that the transition to democracy involved a "pact of silence".
— to keep a pact of silence about a central visual feature of their experience.
Tells about the Pact of Silence among the Spanish and the creation of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory by Emilio Silva.
This is a breach of last year's pact of silence, in which European leaders stopped exerting public pressure on the ECB.
The first was to challenge the "pact of silence", as some on the left call it, and reopen debate about the dictatorship.
The pact of polite silence had been broken for ever.
Mr Watson suggested that News International operated a pact like the Mafia's code of silence known as "omerta", something Mr Murdoch dismissed as "offensive and not true".
When the Dubin Commission -- formed in Canada after the sprinter Ben Johnson tested positive for steroids in 1988 -- investigated the extent of doping in Olympic sports, it referred to a "conspiracy of silence" and a "pact of ignorance" among those in sports organizations when it came to discussing drug use.
The Spanish transition to democracy was so fragile that it had to commit itself to a "pact of forgetting"—more than three decades of silence about abuses committed during the civil war and under Franco.
