In Game Of Thrones parlance, Cowell's tacit guarantee of success is the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies: a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie.
There is nothing of this kind declared in the articles that compose it; and to imply a tacit guarantee from considerations of utility, would be a still more flagrant departure from the clause which has been mentioned, than to imply a tacit power of coertion, from the like consideration.
Over half of these mortgages are tacitly guaranteed by the government, turning them into something akin to Treasury bonds.
The announcement reminded investors that tacit sovereign guarantees may be worthless.
Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, who clinched the original deal with America, flew to Washington this week to sound out potential Obama administration appointees in more detail.Poland is interested not only in the tacit American security guarantee that a missile-defence base implies (important if NATO's value to Poland frays because of German ties with Russia).
Only swift action by the Florida Legislature, which the Republicans say was tacitly legitimized in both rulings, can guarantee that the state's six million voters are represented in the Electoral College, their reasoning goes.
In such circumstances, any attempt by the lumbering firm to collude tacitly is futile; if it offers a guarantee, its bluff will be called.
Lukashenko's regime has rested on three pillars: a social contract that promises national independence and a guaranteed low income in exchange for tacit consent to dictatorial rule; a propaganda machine that reinforces the value and necessity of this deal; and a massive security apparatus to enforce it.
When Major League Baseball investigates Jason Giambi's tacit admission that he used steroids, there is no guarantee that Commissioner Bud Selig will meet with him.
Even when one player had much lower costs than the other, prices still rose, albeit by less.Price-matching need not always be a con: guarantees can be constructed in ways that work against tacit collusion.
Below, another excerpt from the uncorrected proof: Instead of challenging the fantasies of techno-utopia, a New Era and a Greenspan guarantee against stock market losses, the chairman, at best, tacitly endorsed them or, at worst, aided and abetted them.
