Sentence examples for tacit protest from inspiring English sources

His predecessor sometimes used the same gesture as a tacit protest against Mr. Mubarak's government.

It's conceivable that her withdrawal into obsessively reworking "The Rose" amounted to a tacit protest — a standup strike — against the pressures of her milieu.

The listing of their names reduced the distance between the recruit and the officer but also represented a tacit protest against the anonymity of modern warfare.

And perhaps the willing surrender of our own private lives to the eyes of Facebook "friends", Twitter followers and webcams can be read as a more tacit protest against the black boxes of the self and the world, a fantasy of making ourselves and everyone around us fully transparent.

To describe any one of them as exemplary is to provoke tacit protests from the rest.

But some lawmakers have given the poo protest tacit acceptance.

He anticipated, and tacitly endorsed, peaceful protest, "the only thing that has ever worked" to advance social justice in America.

I took Pavlik's lack of protest as tacit approval of the name.

One protester, his clothes soaked in blood, screamed: "Murderers, cowards, is a rock any match for a bullet?" Hezbollah, which controls Lebanon's southern villages had given tacit support for the protest but the crowd was dispersed by Lebanese troops firing into the air.

Tacit support for the protests could not have endured the developing economic paralysis or life and limb being put at risk.

They dare because the Dunwoody family, steeped in party political tactics, gave its consent, as Harriet Harman pointed out after David Cameron's presence provided tacit support to backbench protests.