"One difference from letters to Santa is that many are not even explicitly asking for something.
Take the bid specs that Georgia recently issued for broadcloth, explicitly asking for "domestic goods," Ms. Corey noted.
Does it matter if your life-log records the sexy stranger on whom your eye happens to fall without you explicitly asking it to do so?
His concern about Iraq's attitude, he said, led him to refrain from explicitly asking for more time for inspections when he reported to the Security Council on Monday.
What's more, adds Hong, Siri is crucially "driven by what the user is explicitly asking"—it doesn't pop up officiously, like that insufferable paper clip.
And in keeping with laws that prohibit elected officials from explicitly asking donors for super PAC money, aides to Mr. Romney insisted before the event that the meeting was not a fund-raiser.
An application pack for the Yesodey Hatorah's private primary school in north London, which caters for children aged 4-11, goes further explicitly asking parents to "adhere to the strict laws of modesty… at all times".
If you are explicitly asking for attributes by name, and you now want this attribute back as well, you will need to include it in your list of attributes to return.
Regional leaders are granting them an increasing role in law enforcement, in some cases explicitly asking them to stem an influx of ethnic minorities, mainly Muslims from the Caucasus, into territory long dominated by Orthodox Slavs.
The Promise Keepers are an evangelical Christian men's organization, and as such, the event was highly structured, with performers and preachers explicitly asking the audience to do certain things: pray, sing, etc.
Despite the company's admission, the committee did not accuse the governor, Yasushi Furukawa, of explicitly asking officials to send e-mails masquerading as coming from the public, but only of asking it to send e-mails.
