You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving".
There were signs of growing debate within Palestinian society over the efficacy, if not explicitly the morality, of such attacks.
A greater share of blame for the tragedy was thus shifted to Tonio's covetous meddling, a defensible interpretation if not explicitly the composer's intent.
Whereas most love poems have been in favour of love, much – and most recent – war poetry has been implicitly, if not explicitly, anti-war.
India's four southern states have managed to extend some affirmative action benefits to Muslims, if not explicitly along religious lines, but elsewhere Muslims have largely been excluded.
And it was this ambition – hinted at, if not explicitly stated – that saw him strafed by Julian Lewis, the Conservative chairman of the Defence Select Committee.
Still, in returning to the practice — if not explicitly the theory — of stimulus spending, the President has taken an important step in the right direction.
If not explicitly announced as such, "Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East" reads very much like a foreign-policy blueprint for the region for a new administration.
But the double act is emblematic of this 56th edition of the world's grandest art event, which is nothing if not explicitly critical of capitalism, consumerism and filthy lucre while relying upon them all for its very lifeblood.
Back then this local authority, tacitly if not explicitly, took a comprehensive view of quality of life as its business, endeavouring to support its enhancement within the district across a broad front.
But there's a killer closer, and indeed the whole final quarter, which stages Acaster's spiritual breakdown, offers up rich cod-philosophical comedy, accruing the feeling – if not (explicitly) the substance – of a bona fide revelation.
