A code of silence is a condition in effect when a person opts to withhold what is believed to be vital or important information voluntarily or involuntarily...
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The blue wall of silence, also blue code and blue shield, are terms used to denote an informal code of silence among police officers in the United States...
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Code of Silence is a 1985 American action thriller film directed by Andrew Davis and starring Chuck Norris, Henry Silva and Molly Hagan. Norris plays...
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Look up code of silence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A code of silence is a condition in effect when a person opts to withhold what is believed...
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@sohoplace. In May 2023, she was announced as the star of the upcoming ITV drama Code of Silence. In August 2024, Ayling-Ellis was announced as a presenter...
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Chuck Norris (redirect from Political views of Chuck Norris)
others. Apart from the Cannon films, Norris made Code of Silence (1985), which was received as one of his best films. In the 1990s, he played the title...
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Made man (redirect from Friend of ours)
oath of omertà, the Mafia code of silence and code of honor. After the induction ceremony, the associate becomes a "made man" and holds the rank of soldier...
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Code of Silence is a 2015 Nigerian drama film directed by Emem Isong and written by Bola Aduwo. The film was produced by the Royal Arts Academy in collaboration...
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Omertà (redirect from Thieves' Code)
[omerˈta]) is a Southern Italian code of silence and code of honor and conduct that places importance on silence in the face of questioning by authorities or...
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of such a practice are sufficiently well-known or enduring to become known by their own specific terms, including the code of silence, the refusal of...
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Robert J. O'Neill (category Killing of Osama bin Laden)
violation of "a code of silence that forbids them from publicly taking credit for their actions." O'Neill claimed that he and another unnamed member of SEAL...
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Arrow season 4 (redirect from Code of Silence (Arrow))
Porter, Rick (November 12, 2015). "Wednesday final ratings: black-ish and Code Black adjust down". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on November...
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Molly Hagan (category Northwestern University School of Communication alumni)
Molly Hagan is an American actress. She co-starred in films Code of Silence (1985), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), The Dentist (1996), Election (1999), and...
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Code of Silence is a 2014 Australian documentary film of the life of Manny Waks and his Chabad Hasidic family who struggle in the aftermath of Waks' public...
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murder; also to whack, hit, pop, burn, ice, put a contract out on. code of silence: not ratting on one's colleagues once one has been pinched -- no longer...
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Dennis Farina (category American people of Italian descent)
Albert Lombard, in several episodes of Miami Vice. He moonlighted as an actor in Chicago-based films (like Code of Silence, a 1985 Chuck Norris film) and theater...
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Normalization of deviance can exist in conjunction with corporate omerta where deviation from rules is held up by a code of silence surrounding the...
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Una Femmina: The Code of Silence (Italian: Una femmina, lit. 'A woman') is a 2022 Italian crime drama film co-written and directed by Francesco Costabile [it]...
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of California, health plan based in San Francisco, California Blue Shield (comics), a Marvel Comics Superhero Blue Code of Silence, an informal code of...
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Henry Silva (category American people of Italian descent)
II (1984), Code of Silence (1985) with Chuck Norris, Above the Law (1988) with Steven Seagal, and Dick Tracy (1990). He was also the voice of supervillain...
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Silence is the absence of ambient audible sound, the emission of sounds of such low intensity that they do not draw attention to themselves, or the state...
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Joseph Valachi (category American gangsters of Italian descent)
membership. His testimony was the first major violation of omertà, the Mafia's code of silence, and the first concrete evidence that the Italian-American...
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of murder of Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. The title refers to the Mafia's code of silence but is also a play on the name of the...
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Whitey Bulger (category United States Air Force personnel of the Korean War)
fear of wiretaps and policy of never discussing their business over the telephone or in vehicles. Other reasons included South Boston's code of silence and...
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Samurai Cop (category Fictional portrayals of the Los Angeles Police Department)
head displayed on a piano to remind all remaining Katana members of their code of silence. Joe and his partner Frank confront the Katana at the Carlos'n...
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The quote at the beginning of "Omerta" is a paraphrase of the Sicilian Mafia's code of silence. As of August 2010, Ashes of the Wake has sold 398,000 copies...
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Joe Sánchez (category United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War)
existence of a code of silence among police officers known as the "Blue Wall of Silence". Sánchez is a native of Santurce, Puerto Rico, and one of five siblings...
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Sicilian Mafia (redirect from History of the Mafia)
similar to the Mafia: a boss, an initiation ritual, and talk of umirtà (omertà or code of silence) and "pizzu" (a codeword for extortion money). The play had...
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Cornbread Mafia (section Origin of the name)
Syndicate's Code Of Silence And The Biggest Marijuana Bust In American History (2012), by James Higdon. In his first two books,The Origins Of The Cornbread...
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Uncle Tom (category Culture of the United States)
is willingly flogged to death rather than violate the plantation's code of silence by informing against the route being used by two women who have just...
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