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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an implicit commitment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a commitment that is not explicitly stated but is understood or assumed in a given context.
Example: "The agreement included an implicit commitment to uphold the values of transparency and accountability."
Alternatives: "an unspoken obligation" or "a tacit promise".
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The relationship barters Saudi oil for US conventional arms and an implicit commitment to Saudi's defence.
In the past, this type of municipal bond was considered relatively safe in that the borrowing authority was seen as having an implicit commitment to raise taxes as necessary to pay off the obligation.
What would be asked of Tehran initially would be a gesture of good faith: it would, three months after the start of the negotiations, have to make an implicit commitment to halt its enrichment activities.
Before we did liftoff, we would routinely use the dot plot [a quarterly projection of future interest rates] as an implicit commitment on what the Fed was going to do going forward.
Mr Abbas, and apparently Mr Bush, felt they had an implicit commitment that Israel would largely desist from offensive operations during this period of grace.A group of senior reserve officers had planned to publish large newspaper advertisements on June 11th supporting Mr Sharon's new openness to negotiations, and praising him for beginning to dismantle settlement outposts.
So, again, the truthmaker criterion for kinds fails to capture an implicit commitment.
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Women sought ways to demonstrate an explicit commitment to education and professionalisation via regular contraceptive use alongside a more implicit commitment to setting the groundwork for a strong family life via the testing of fertility through interrupted contraceptive use.
The truthmaker account of ontological commitment like the quantifier account, but for an entirely different reason has a problem with capturing implicit commitment.
If ordinary language users have an implicit metaethical commitment, it is likely that this commitment would be reflected in the meaning of the words in their moral vocabularies.
The year that has passed since then has made this implicit commitment to a Eurozone, let alone an EU cross-border sovereign bail-out rather less credible.
His firm, he explained, was already invested in a similar product called PicPlz, and decided not to finance Instagram during an additional round, since "funding Kevin to compete with Dalton" – referring to Mr. Systrom, Instagram's co-founder, and Mr. Caldwell, PicPlz's founder – "would be a violation of the original implicit commitment we made to Dalton — to not fund competitors to PicPlz".
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