Word: implicitly
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...Nothing like that has happened since the 1950s. The five two-term administrations before this one were all followed by an election in which the big man's Veep sought the presidency on his own-a kind of third term as well as an implicit referendum on the previous...
George W. Bush promised practically nothing except faith and strength. But religious faith is the implicit Republican solution to the personal traumas of the middle-class squeezethe fact that overworked parents are scared to death that their unsupervised kids are taking life lessons from the sex, drugs and weirdness spewing from their televisions and computers. Liberals scoff, but the balm that comes with being part of a religious communitythe Bible study, youth groups, choirs and, yes, the moral absolutes that often accompany such communionis real and comforting, unlike the promise of complicated and expensive government programs...
This kind of implicit gender discrimination is further aggravated by a lack of senior women in the decision-making process. The most important recommendations for a tenure offer come from a department’s chair and senior faculty, but of FAS’s 30 primary departments, only seven have female chairs—including temporary and acting chairwomen...
...George W. Bush promised practically nothing except faith and strength. But religious faith is the implicit Republican solution to the personal traumas of the middle-class squeeze-the fact that overworked parents are scared to death that their unsupervised kids are taking life lessons from the sex, drugs and weirdness spewing from their televisions and computers. Liberals scoff, but the balm that comes with being part of a religious community-the Bible study, youth groups, choirs and, yes, the moral absolutes that often accompany such communion-is real and comforting, unlike the promise of complicated and expensive government programs...
...wants to make sure it comes out on top this time. He has been adamant about elections because he believes Shi'ites can get what they want at the ballot box, and the rest of the world will have to accept it. Some Sistani aides say there is an implicit warning in that: if Shi'ite expectations of electoral victory are thwarted, Sistani could call his followers to rebel. "He does not think of jihad now," says Ali al-Mousawi al-Waath, Sistani's agent in the Baghdad shrine district of Khadimiya, "but that depends on what the Americans...