The greater focus on faith - never before have so many contenders in both parties raised the issue so explicitly - reflects in part the increased attention these days on candidates' personal lives.

But in his long, moving letter-journal of early 1819, Keats explicitly raises metaphysical suffering over political or material travails.

The draft document does not explicitly raise the question of homosexuality, but it is a matter of obvious concern.

But it explicitly raised the question whether his drinking would diminish the prospects for a successful tenure should he ever be elected governor.

Mr. Cohen, emerging as the Administration's strongest voice for retaliation, explicitly raised the possibility of a military strike.

Indeed, the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution explicitly raise the pursuit of happiness and the expectation of privacy to the level of rights.

But it also explicitly raised the possibility of a new manager hiring its own teachers.

It seems to have been St Bernard of Clairvaux who, in the 12th century, explicitly raised the question of the Immaculate Conception.

In 1963 the boundary dispute had come into the open when China explicitly raised the issue of territory lost through "unequal treaties" with tsarist Russia.

Justice Ramos did not explicitly raise the concern that the lawyers for the states were paid to settle easily.