"The problem is in the implicit threat that if you don't help, we're going to remember".
Finally, it sends an implicit message that if those in health care are smoking right outside their own institutional pillars, smoking is not that bad after all.
Yet as a so-called universal bank – doing everything from market trading in its own name to providing students with current accounts – Barclays has long enjoyed an implicit guarantee that if it collapses the British taxpayer will save it.
Every project that is awarded comes with a confidentiality agreement and the implicit understanding that if it is violated the perpetrator will need to consider a new line of work.
I suppose what's most annoying is the implicit suggestion that if you don't wear a ribbon you're somehow in favour of breast cancer, or at least indifferent to it.
Fingerprints are taken, names and faces noted, and photos of those "wanted" are splashed all over the media, destroying anonymity and carrying the implicit message that if you protest, for any reason, we can and will destroy your future.
He described a "martyr complex" among many entrepreneurs he knows, "the implicit expectation that if you're not wearing yourself a little thin you're not putting enough effort in".
The bear part is the explicit or implicit threat that if the sought-after company doesn't come to the table, then the buyer will try a hostile takeover.
The owners also must consider the implicit threat that if they are too inflexible, Donald Fehr, the union's executive director, might put the N.H.L.'s salary-cap system on the bargaining table.
