Or an implicit affirmation.
Most importantly, by accepting the England captaincy when the manager, the FA chief executive, the sports minister and numerous commentators had insisted that the incumbent must maintain high standards both on and off the field, Ferdinand was making a strong, if implicit, assertion that his private conduct by that time met the prescribed norms.
While it reflected and replaced the previously common but not universal format of history, physical, lab, and plan, neither provided a description of quality beyond the implicit assertion that organization is a primary requirement of quality.
What is noteworthy is the verve, imagination and transparency of some of these; the implicit assertion that Architecture with a capital A is not the sole province of the well-to-do.
It's worth noting that, in 1964, when Godard had worked with the documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles on his short film in "Six in Paris," the very presence of a documentarist became the project's key metaphor the implicit assertion that the overtly fictional contrivance (based on a story by Jean Giraudoux) was in fact a true and authentic vision of reality.
Friedman's implicit assertion that the barrier to a serious solution to our energy and climate challenges is mutual ideological pigheadedness is especially laughable.
The implicit assertion here is that the support for a stimulus package, as for the rescue plan, is driven by this élite group of interventionist economists and politicians, who are overriding what would otehrwise be commonsense economic policy.
It was another implicit assertion of his claim to the presidency, another application of pressure on Vice President Al Gore.
A FASHIONABLE subject for debate in recent years has been the question: "Is France reformable?" The implicit assertion is that it is not.
Mr. Fitzgerald's expressions of revulsion, use of hyperbolic rhetoric and implicit assertion of his personal belief that the charges have merit clearly run afoul of the rules.
