As ministers and the military entered the final stages of deciding which units and projects to axe or cut back, Mrs Clinton was explicit in admitting the spending plans worry her and said: "The reason is because I think we do have to have an alliance where there is a commitment to the common defence.
Whether or not a particular painting has an explicit religious iconography, admitting perishable foodstuffs into the idealized realm of art inevitably conjures Jesus's words from the Gospel According to John: "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth in me shall never thirst".
TV presenter Vernon Kay branded himself "stupid" after admitting sending explicit texts to around five women.
Now Zuckerberg is prepared to make that assumption explicit and to admit that "some people" are starting to lose faith in it.
Twitter says it will make privacy guidelines more explicit after it admitted copying entire address books from people's smartphones and storing the information on its servers, according to reports.
The effect was explicit in patients admitted to the ICU for more than 48 hours (0.60 (0.47 to 0.76); P < 0.01), in nontraumatic patients (0.81 (0.64 to 1.01)) and a trend toward to statistical significance in patients older than 65 years (0.81 (0.64 to 1.01); P = 0.07).
Earlier this year, Miliband apologised to MPs, admitting that, contrary to "earlier explicit assurances", two rendition flights had secretly landed at Diego Garcia, the British Indian Ocean territory where the US has a large airbase.
Admitting that it is "quite explicit" – it illustrates the Inferno canto which shows Muhammad with his entrails hanging out – she proposed substitutions: the same scene has been painted by Rodin, Blake and Dali, but these were not accepted.
While Democrats (unsurprisingly) immediately censured the candidate's words, Republicans, too expressed outrage at the explicit bigotry, with even Speaker of the House Paul Ryan admitting that Trump's comment was "the textbook definition of" racism.
The New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner vowed to press ahead with his longshot bid for political rehabilitation on Tuesday, after admitting that he was the subject of an explicit self-taken picture published earlier in the day.
