Palestinians want Israel's statement to include an explicit endorsement of a Palestinian state.

"The Leninist principle of democratic centralism even received explicit endorsement in the AD's party statutes."

But an explicit endorsement was not necessary.

This may be the closest I'll get to having Paul's explicit endorsement on this important issue, and I'll take it with pleasure.

Regular readers won't be in any doubt about who I want to win, though New York Times rules prevent me from giving any explicit endorsement.

Parnell saw that the explicit endorsement of Catholicism was of vital importance to the success of this venture.

Until recently, the two industries, while occasionally sniping at each other, had avoided explicit endorsement of the regulation that was most feared by the other.

The Commission says it is taking it very seriously, but that is not good enough: we want an explicit endorsement.

Martin Kramer considers that as "an explicit endorsement of normal relations with Jews".