Because you have a gun, and even though you are not pointing it at them, it is the implication of that power.
When it is, the implication of submerged life becomes a haunting, obvious metaphor, since Jindabyne concerns itself with emotions that lie under the surface of daily experience, and with a mysterious past murkily visible through the membrane of the present.
But while the skull itself is spectacular, it is the implications of the discovery that have caused scientists in the field to draw breath.
In effect that means the erasure of two decades' worth of memories through the replacement of a network of neurons, and it is the implications of this which Payne confronts.
But it is the implications of the Cas ruling on the BOA by-law that is dominating debate here, with the controversy surrounding Dwain Chambers' attempt to gain selection for the Beijing Olympics still fresh in the memory.
OK, that's not what he said in so many words, but it's the implication of his op-ed.
As it happens, it was the implication of such a regression, in Joseph J. Lhota's notorious campaign ad last month, that has left many in the real estate world aghast.
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It's the implication of this analysis that so completely disqualifies him from enjoying the respect of any reasonable person on television or off.
For some, like Golding, it was the implications of the images and their setting; for others, it was the extraordinary sophistication and perception of the paintings themselves.
Now, I realize that it wasn't her that I couldn't accept; it was the implications of the worldview she presented.
