Word: implicitly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reputation for liberalism. And Vatican watchers never tire of invoking this aphorism: "He who goes into the conclave the next Pope, comes out a Cardinal." Martini has done everything to discourage discussion of his chances of succession -- including voicing his desire to be buried in the Holy Land. Implicit in that is the fact that Popes are buried in Rome...
...lower- and middle-income tax break, then slammed Republicans as "trickle-down terrorists." Gephardt denied he was trying to upstage Clinton, but said "there will be and probably can be times when we are not going to agree and House Democrats are going to have our own proposals." Implicit in the remarks: Clinton shoulders much of the blame for Democrats' failure to "speak to the growing sense of insecurity" among workers whose wages are stagnant or shrinking. The Gephardt proposal would offer an unspecified tax break for all taxpayers who earn up to $75,000 a year -- less dramatic than...
...nonsense, of course, but transparency is their common denominator. They seek to gratify the public's desires and quiet its fears. Conveniently forgotten is the real world's complexity and an appreciation for the long-term consequences of their feel-good prescriptions. Consider, for example, the contract's implicit welfare paradigm: We're against children having children, so unwed teen mothers will be denied welfare and their kids can live in orphanages -- a costlier remedy than the current (and admittedly flawed) system...
...world. He ticked off the problems like a list of battlefield defeats: pinched budgets, poor equipment, low recruitment rates, unpaid salaries and a decline in military preparedness so precipitous that not a single ground-force training maneuver has been carried out at the divisional level since 1992. Implicit in his words was the accusation that it is parliament, which controls the purse strings, and not the Defense Minister, who merely distributes the resources he is given, that bears the blame. "Not a single army in the world is in such a catastrophic state," Grachev told the Deputies...
...Implicit in that, but never publicly stated, was the fact that Green, Harvard's first provost in four decades, would step down as head of the task force...