"explicit wishes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to wishes that are clearly stated or expressed in a straightforward manner. It can be used in any context where someone is expressing their desires or intentions openly. Example: "The bride and groom's explicit wishes for a small, intimate wedding were respected by their families."
He put all of Texas under martial law and his personal authority, going against Jefferson Davis's explicit wishes.
The organs are taken against the presumed or explicit wishes of the condemned donors and their families.
Among Mr. Quinn's explicit wishes for a pension systems overhaul is that it have bipartisan support, a notion that may reflect the only practical way such a shift in public sector workers' pensions could survive in Springfield.
Guessing the verdicts of dead heroes isn't a new pastime, of course – religions have long split over the interpretation of the instructions of deceased leaders – and nor is merrily disregarding the explicit wishes of the deceased.
I know this because I just committed a serious violation of her privacy, reading the more than 500 letters amassed in "The Selected Letters of Willa Cather," edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout, and published despite the author's repeated, explicit wishes to the contrary.
That chaotic, frenzied night – as he and the couple's son, Bilawal, flew back to Pakistan to take charge of both the funeral arrangements of Ms Bhutto and the reins of her party – fate and the explicit wishes of his wife were conspiring to push him centre-stage in the country's political arena.
It is also the best means of keeping politics out of the classroom, as is his explicit wish.
The doctors, it seemed, simply could not let patients go even if that was a patient's explicit wish.
His hands and feet were tied to the bed because he repeatedly pulled out the feeding tube inserted through his nose, despite his explicit wish that he receive no treatment.
We kept him hidden as much as possible, partly because of his own explicit wish, partly because of a form of exclusive and jealous affection that we all felt for him, and partly because a combination of rationality and intuition advised us to shield him from unnecessary contact with our human world.
"It is our explicit wish to keep him until 2014.
