implicit threat

There would be an implicit threat of military action if Iraq refused.

His concerns were focused instead on the implicit threat he had just heard.

For any other judges who follow, the implicit threat is clear.

But the timing of the deal itself includes one implicit threat.

"The implicit threat is that if they don't come to an agreement, the company would dissolve."

The implicit threat behind those words was not lost on Chalsee.

You need the structure, the system, the implicit threat that becomes a fact of life."

A senior British official called the implicit threat a "policy of terror warfare."

The implicit threat sent a tremor through the heart of this country's most sensitive industry.

Others want more than implicit threats of military action to back up demands for compliance with the treaty.

In so doing, it raises a useful question about explicit and implicit threats within games.

"An implicit threat is subject to interpretation," he said.

And when there was an implicit threat of violence in them, she liked them even less.

Losing weight, therefore, is a breaking of the pact and an implicit threat to the marriage.

There is an implicit threat of more pointed advertisements if the lawmakers do not vote as union officials wish.

I took his presence at the hearing as an implicit threat that my uncle's lawyer might propose him for the job.

His voice was quiet, but it held unshakable determination, perhaps even an implicit threat.

China abstained because of the Council's implicit threat to authorize force.

That proposal contains the implicit threat of immediate military action if Iraq resists.

"It carries an implicit threat, but it doesn't give them any clear cut advantage."

He advises that if you're looking for a square deal from a street gang, with its implicit threat of muscle, forget it.

Tachyon grimaced and his eyes darkened as if in implicit threat.

He was a tormentor, a torturer, a master of the implicit threat.

It is usually the implicit threat that the system can be turned against any individual that has the power to coerce.

In Panama's case, there is also an implicit threat to the lucrative business of ship registrations.