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explicit English
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I gave you explicit instructions not to touch anything.
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I gave Tom explicit instructions.
Movie subtitles
Madame is in good voice, and most explicit.
I hope you're not turning into one of those explicit people who always tell you exactly how they feel when you ask them.
Sire, I myself have given explicit instructions to all the commanders.
After all those explicit directions he gave you on the phone.
The offer's very explicit.
I gave explicit orders the job was not to be attempted until after dark.
Your husband's will is most clear and explicit.
The instructions are quite explicit.
Yet despite my explicit order to the contrary, you organized yet another collection.
The prince's orders are explicit!
Be more explicit Ian.
I'm sorry to be so explicit, but I'm not in the habit of deluding patients.
Can you be more explicit?
Erm. my uncle gave quite explicit instructions.
The law is quite explicit. One cannot divorce an insane person.
You have to be more explicit.
I left explicit instructions that I wasn't to be disturbed. I'm sorry.
If so, I think you should know I've been a great deal more explicit about you.
As soon as the doctor reported your mother's case to the authorities. the French government stepped in quickly, and gave everyone explicit orders.
I know! But it's at the explicit request of Her Majesty!
Must I be more explicit?
You know, you haven't been exactly what I'd call explicit about where this place is.
Oh, after all those involved and explicit directions he gave you on the phone.
Pardon? You are always explicit, sir.
The law is explicit.
Reverend, be more explicit.
Mr Pyncheon sir, I beg you to be more explicit.
The law is quite explicit.
Why couldn't they have been a little more explicit. about just which coach they were sending her on?
No doubt, but be more explicit.
I got explicit dispositions.
I'm sure bill will be more explicit with you if i leave the room.
The instructions given me were explicit.
Mr. Spock, even if regulations are explicit, you could've come to me and explained.
Mr. Oxmyx, my orders are quite explicit. Under no.
I gave you explicit orders.
Sorry if I can't be more explicit. Ana!
News and current affairs
They safeguard them, and should not diminish those liberties without an explicit mandate.
Explicit industrial policies can be an even more potent instrument.
The first explicit scheme was introduced in America after the Great Depression and initially seemed an unmitigated success.
Explicit UN support for invasion might ease some of these risks, but it would not remove them.
So far only the Netherlands, Belgium, and the state of Oregon in the US have put explicit legislation into practice.
But making explicit what lies implicit can sharpen US decision-making.
In fact, one key reason for the creation of the International Monetary Fund was to monitor exchange-rate developments with the explicit aim of preventing beggar-thy-neighbor policies.
They will then be forced to make public and explicit choices about the sort of Europe that they want, and this will put them at odds with their neighbors.
The most explicit call for the use of dollar reserves to finance a major program of infrastructure modernization has come from India, which has a similar problem to the one facing China and Japan.
Putin, meanwhile, has ratcheted up his much more explicit anti-American rhetoric since the Ukraine crisis, which he sees as a prime example of Western interference in Russia's domestic affairs.
According to Leverett, Khadafi's decision predated the invasion and was a response to an explicit quid-pro-quo to end international sanctions against Libya.
Though EU countries will not contribute any actual funds, they will provide implicit and explicit guarantees for the private investors, in an arrangement that looks suspiciously like the joint liability embodied by Eurobonds.
This could be an explicit devaluation or an implicit one due to a price reduction, made possible by the reduction in unit production costs resulting from the extra working time at constant pay.
The EU's member governments name the members of the European Commission, and the Parliament lacks an explicit right to veto them.
Second, he would accompany this with an explicit set of social policies - and here the potential differences are profound - that addresses the need for equitable burden-sharing.
Gates, however, is due to step down from his post shortly, which is unfortunate, because the Obama administration's apparent lack of any explicit Asia strategy means that Gates's reassurances might not reassure for very long.
But this can be achieved only by implicit or explicit guarantees from EMU countries with sound public finances.
To be sure, this impression disappears if one focuses on explicit political content.
Financial conditions could be controlled with one tool - the short-term interest rate - deployed exclusively in pursuit of a target, implicit or explicit, for consumer price inflation.
The lack of explicit guidelines also keeps content more conservative than it need be, because producers tend to err on the safe side.