Warner-Lambert executives have been trying to fend off a takeover offer from Pfizer, but last week tacitly acknowledged the strength of Pfizer's bid by agreeing to hold merger discussions.
Tacitly acknowledging the strength of Mr. Clegg's candidacy, both of his rivals used the debate to home in on the Liberal Democrats' policies on immigration, defense and Europe, part of a broader, left-of-center agenda that they believe make the party vulnerable if voters move beyond Mr. Clegg's personal appeal and look more closely at what his party might do in government.
In the following, we make the tacit assumption that measuring the strength of a body's regolith should be equivalent to determining its global cohesive strength.
His second, and indispensable, strength is the tacit support of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who under the constitution has the final say on just about anything that matters.
Interest rates play a significant role in the dollar's strength, but a tacit agreement leaves official commentary on dollar policy in the hands of U.S. Treasury Department, and rate policy with the Fed.
Yet Europe, too, still has huge strengths in the "tacit" skills that are at such a premium in a knowledge economy.
It seems to involve a tacit acknowledgement that the band's real strength lies not in the handing out of windy platitudes, but the writing of hook-laden melodies; a recognition that the best thing about, say, 2011's Mylo Xyloto wasn't its terrible futuristic dystopia concept, but the tune of Princess of China.
Most wounding of all, the countries of Latin America's western seaboard Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico have forged their own Pacific Alliance, built on free trade and free markets, in a tacit rebuke to Mercosur.Brazil still has international strengths.
It argued that Cameron's warning to Tory ministers "smacks of weakness rather than strength"... and amounted to "a tacit admission" that Cameron's "'reforms' could be mainly cosmetic, the hollowest of empty victories".
The change was a significant one, tacit acknowledgement that the game had changed; to win you needed strength and resilience in defence, and in this new context United were too soft.
