Sentence examples for tacit claim from inspiring English sources

It also made a tacit claim to morality at the same time that Mr. Bush was facing questions about abortion and giving answers that might not be wholly satisfying to religious conservatives.

In his effrontery, Bertolucci put his abuse in front of the camera and like so many men of that era, maintains a tacit claim of permissive liberation and declines to see what was wrong.

A macaronic tendency to drag in an untranslated quotation, whether in French, German, Italian, or Spanish, marked his prose for the rest of his life, and could have been a tacit claim that there was really not very much wrong with his eyes, if he could take in all that print.

While Paxman's Waitrose rottweiler brand of journalism has led to him being lauded as one of the outstanding political journalists of his generation, his tacit claim of wages having gone up under this government when they have in fact declined by as much as 8 percent shows how out of touch and just plain wrong he can be.

And the book has lofty implications, tacitly claiming for the new market world all of the glory and the righteousness associated with multiculturalism.

Instead (2.4.1) should be understood as "implicitly" or "tacitly" claiming there is a "law" or regularity linking knee impacts to tipping over of inkwells.

But if Jews can be anti-Semitic – and this is what Walker's critics are tacitly claiming – then her treatment is also bald and despicable anti-Semitism.

This triadic structure suggests that many speech acts, including non-constatives, involve a set of tacit validity claims: the claim that the speech act is sincere (non-deceptive), is socially appropriate or right, and is factually true (or more broadly: representationally adequate).

And it is the disappearance and reappearance of clothing that is so startling: first naked and then clothed and then naked and then clothed, Laura and John demonstrate the routine of married sex, and tacitly make a claim for the intimacy and excitement that triumphantly survives the accomplishment of the sex act itself.

Some of Britain's major newspapers have accused Muslims of tacitly supporting ISIS a claim that was quickly disproved, but is still frequently used by far-right websites and street groups.

Then, in the words of their coach, Rex Ryan, who on a conference call Monday morning tacitly acknowledged that claims made a week ago after an overtime loss in New England — when he vowed that the Jets were playing much better than in their 2-2 September — were erroneous.