"We'll put you down at a tram stop east of your townhouse," Sand said, as though she hadn't heard the implicit rebuke.

It is also an implicit rebuke to the leadership on both sides, suggesting a failure to explore diplomatic rather than military means.

Edzeka neither thanked her nor acknowledged the implicit rebuke.

This kind of productivity pre-empts the potential critic with a smiling, implicit rebuke: So how did you spend these past 10 years?

There was rebuke implicit in it, somehow.

Such words are an implicit rebuke to the intellectual world of Yeshiva University.

"No, I don't suppose you can," he said just a bit contritely, acknowledging the implicit rebuke.

Some observers interpreted Archbishop Williams's sermon as an implicit rebuke of those archbishops.

But his sudden removal as envoy to the Group of 8 carried an implicit rebuke.

It is an implicit rebuke of Mr. Giuliani as oratorically overheated and short on specifics.