Word: implicitly
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...losing this job felt like falling off a cliff, Gwen said. I remember where I was last year, and I know Im still the same person; I still have that same capacity. But because the market changes, because your firm suddenly has all these implicit pressures on it, they just become ready to push you off the edge. They dont seem to care where youve come from, or where you can go in the future...
There is an “implicit pressure to go into academic pursuits,” said Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry James G. Anderson...
...CNN’s implicit support for the bombing of Afghanistan is further proof that the media war has begun. Every armed war also includes a media war, and with the proliferation of telecommunications and Internet technology, this media war may be more important than ever. Ordinarily, America enjoys a marked advantage over its adversaries in this regard. During the Gulf War, the world was fed a constant stream of U.S.-friendly information through CNN’s rugged 24-hour coverage of the war. Its reporters broadcasted fearlessly from Israel during Scud missile attacks, on the frontlines in Saudi...
Opponents of the reform argue that it distracts lawyers from their primary obligation: rigorously advocating the interests of their clients. But backers say the new policy will force lawyers to weigh their obligations to clients against their larger duty to society. Read between the lines, and you have an implicit acknowledgment that lawyers could do something to improve their image. "There's been a recognition, particularly when there's a danger to life and limb, that lawyers ought not to be legalistic," says Nancy Moore, a Boston University professor of law who helped draft the proposed new rules...
...turning to a resigned frown. If he was bitter, however, he would never admit it, not to a reporter, nor to his Cabinet, and probably not to his friends. Yet the possibility his tenure would be abbreviated by a guilty ruling had become the defining attribute of his term. Implicit in every question was If, as in, If you are still in office, If you are still Prime Minister, If you can lead your country...