unspoken agreement

This silence, evoked by the title, describes the organizational omerta under which the IRA operated and the unspoken agreement between its operatives and the people they lived among.

“We have an unspoken agreement: I don’t criticize religion and you don’t criticize my lack of religion,” he said.

“We have an unspoken agreement: I don’t criticize religion and you don’t criticize my lack of religion,” he said.

It was theoretically possible for the commission to reject any fare increase, but staff said it’s long been an “unspoken agreement” that the body moves forward with what the ferry department and the Legislature say is needed.

But it also exposed the tenuous nature of an unspoken agreement with the cartels under which the searchers have more or less been allowed to do their work for years.