But the president's public silence disappointed human rights organizations that had called for a more explicit challenge to Mr. Hun Sen's record of crushing opposition.
In his most explicit challenge yet to government reforms, Lord Neuberger, president of the supreme court, implied that access to justice for all – particularly "the poor, the vulnerable [and] the disadvantaged" – is being put at risk.
Two of them, Belarus and Armenia, have joined Russia's Eurasian Economic Union, an explicit challenge to the EU, while nobody seriously speaks about Ukraine or Georgia as members any more.
This came as a disappointment to those hoping for a more explicit challenge to the regime.Related items Iran's Mir Hosein Mousavi: Out of his shellJul 16th 2009 The Arabs' view of Iran: Mixed feelingsJul 16th 2009 Iran's rebellious students: Go undergroundJul 9th 2009Mr Rafsanjani did, however, cast further doubts on the election results and went on to describe the situation in Iran as a crisis.
The tension is remarkable, yet it's rarely highlighted among the more explicit challenges – say, going up against the 800lb gorilla – faced by entrepreneurs.
In answer to this more or less explicit challenge, some care ethicists have highlighted potential analogies between the way a mother cares for her children and the kinds of care a government, state, or society can offer to its citizens or inhabitants (who presumably cannot provide everything they need and want on their own).
The most explicit challenge to established Aristotelian teaching occurred when one of Regius' students, Henricus van Loon, claimed in a disputation (8 December 1641) that the human mind and body are two distinct substances which are joined together in an accidental union [unum per accidens].
Originally pitched to mainstream producers and distributors, the reality show saw 16 contestants compete in explicit challenges for contracts with a major porn studio.
For FDR, who also planned to go to Manila in August 1945 to grant early Philippine independence as an explicit challenge to clinging European colonialism, was in the midst of intensive planning for the UN when he died, planning taking place at Warm Springs and slated to continue on his train ride out to California.
► "[T]he process of offering admission at selective Ph.D. programs is chock-full of assumptions that are seldom made explicit or challenged," wrote Sian Beilock, vice provost for academic initiatives at the University of Chicago in Illinois, in her review of the book Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping, by Julie Posselt.
