The Serbs rejected both the deal's NATO peacekeepers and its implicit commitment to Kosovo independence.

The shoes presumably had been the sticking point, with their implicit commitment to going out.

Should it say nyet, there is no explicit or implicit commitment in the committee proposal to abrogate the ABM treaty.

Similarly, Rand McNally's "Atlas of Today's World," with its implicit commitment to keep up with changing borders, has been a big success.

Second, there is an implicit commitment by Japan to deal with those barriers in ways that can be measured.

But what of his implicit commitment to his constituents?

The opening of the wall was a symbol of a new freedom to protest and an implicit commitment to respond and change.

Jerome and Alissa as 10-11 year olds make an implicit commitment of undying affection for each other.

That factor, as an inescapable commitment implicit in the offer, had not escaped Gregory, and it was the one thing which had caused him to hesitate before making it.

This carried with it an implicit commitment to end military supplies to guerrillas who have made Afghanistan into a quagmire for the Russians.