In other words, explicit promises of delivering economic goods and going after inequality seemed to prove effective.
Before a European Union summit meeting in Brussels last month on the Greek crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France was reportedly in a rage, unable to push Mrs. Merkel toward a more explicit promise of help for Greece.
It is perfectly legal to collect money from donors with legislative interests, as long as there is no explicit promise of official action for contributions.
By the end of the movie, the filmmakers' aestheticism turns into an explicit promise of renewal.
Given the explicit promise of its name, it has long been a real letdown.
That leaves unconventional tools such as explicit promises to keep rates down for a long time, buying more government debt, making larger, longer-term loans to banks and buying foreign exchange.These things are harder to do in practice than in theory.
Mr. Draghi, in the manner of central bankers, made no explicit promises on Thursday.
Only two — AT&T and CVS — have made explicit promises to hire workers.
For the second time in a week, Mitt Romney has offered a series of explicit promises about what he would do on his first day in the Oval Office.
If ― as progressives were happy to tweet Monday ― Democrats shouldn't trust McConnell, forcing him to make more explicit promises on the Senate floor, promises that will surely be thrown back in his face should he fail to live up to them and there is another shutdown, that isn't to be taken for granted.
Her speech made clear the annihilating danger a Mitt Romney presidency would pose to women, referring to the Republican nominee's explicit promise to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood, his support of the Blunt amendment, as well as his party's current opposition to the Violence Against Women Act.
