The United States saw that public pressure as having broken the tacit agreement among all the allies not to declare support ahead of Tuesday's summit for any of the applicants.

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The assumption has been that the agreement carried a tacit corollary that Congress would swiftly restore Mr Zelaya.

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Since China policy is, by tacit agreement, the prerogative of the president rather than the cabinet, the sceptics will probably get their way at least in the short term.

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It subsists by tacit agreement between the corrupters and corrupted.

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That's been a kind of understanding, a tacit agreement between these countries since the late 1940s.

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The Shia party was rewarded with seats in Mr Siniora's cabinet, but also believed there was tacit agreement to provide political cover for its massive rocket arsenal perhaps, at some distant point, by incorporating its guerrilla force into the Lebanese army.

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