The explicit promise the Government made was for the family's physical safety.

It was a campaign of sweeping promises: sweeping and explicit.

There is also no explicit promise that his plans to get more revenue will be limited to raising top income-tax rates.

But there was no explicit promise or assurance.

But even that is not guaranteed; explicit promises are made less often these days than they were only a few decades ago.

There was no explicit promise of German economic aid for Poland.

"Colonel García made no promise, implicit or explicit, to put an end to the official violence."

Maybe explicit promises were not made but were implied or inferred.

She shivered at the promise explicit in his voice.