What does COS stand for?

Code of Silence

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Samples in periodicals archive:

As for Speaker Berri's recent code of silence, Khalifeh said that the Speaker simply wanted to leave things entirely up to Hariri.

Minister Khalifeh hopes for government formation by next week

The code of silence is unacceptable in this day and age where we have young children being killed," Daley said at a news conference at O'Hare International Airport.

Jackson, Farrakhan at beaten Ill. teen's funeral

As a result of government efforts to infiltrate the mafia and break the "omerta," or code of silence, the defendants went to considerable lengths to protect themselves, prosecutors said.

New York police arrest 18 mafia suspects

Co-operative Asset Management is so unhappy it has broken the Square Mile's code of silence to publicly rebuke Shell.

Co-op leads Shell rebellion

In scenes reminiscent of TV series The Sopranos, gangsters are breaching the code of silence to talk to medical experts, according to a study carried out at Palermo University in the Mafia stronghold of Sicily.

Mixed-up Mafia made an offer they can't refuse: therapy

These gang members have a strict code of silence - the staff and police wanted to get him straight to hospital but the victim refused.

BOY, 14, IS SLASHED IN SCHOOL RAZOR ATTACK; EXCLUSIVE Thug jumps gang ...

CAPTION(S): CODE OF SILENCE Khan will not pass on any secrets

Boxing: I KHAN'T TELLRICK

Medicine is the profession of making human life safer and better, but the code of silence helps undo what the practice aims to do.

Doctors' code of silence