Example Sentences

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“Feuer was not only aware of Salgueiro’s threats and demands, but he impliedly directed Peters to ensure that Kiesel settled those demands by paying a large sum of hush money,” Civetti wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2024

“Though U. Delaware nowhere promised in-person classes expressly, it may have done so impliedly through its conduct,” he reiterated in Friday’s ruling.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2023

The Texas Legislature website also notes that the ban was "held to have been impliedly repealed" in a 2004 case.

From Salon • Jun. 29, 2022

Normally, a constitutional law, like the Acts of Union, can only be expressly repealed, but they can be impliedly by another constitutional law.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2021

A. I am impliedly, if not expressly, pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United States Territories.

From Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) by Lincoln, Abraham