How To Use Implication In A Sentence
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‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
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Surely you appreciate that for those who regularly attack Israel and its suporters, “Likud” is a label fraught with negative implications that have nothing to do with the political realities within Israel.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Human Rights Watch Update
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On the taxes proposed she said, "Those concerned by our wish list's ` nanny state 'implications might helpfully redirect their focus to the many unseen measures intentionally adopted by the food industry to shape our behaviour … It seems that without our knowledge or consent we are subject to the pervasive' nannying 'activities of industry.
THE MEDICAL NEWS
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The implications are, in their way, deeply regressive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pfizer emphasized the halt was limited to patients participating in clinical testing who suffered from a joint disorder known as osteoarthritis, although the company is slated to meet with the FDA later this week to assess any implications for other programs.
Pfizer Suspends Trials of Pain Drug After FDA Request
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No right-thinking person wants to downplay this problem or its implications.
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While pointing out some defects of classical logic[Sentencedict], the paper attributes them to substantial implication being directly applied to inference.
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The course content included identification, screening and early intervention and medical implications like epilepsy, hyperactivity and brain dysfunctions.
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He was a strong supporter of the doctrine of papal infallibility and he drew up a postulatum in which he favoured a definition by implication in preference to an explicit affirmation of the dogma.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The implication was you had to have your own world, you had to be self-sufficient in that way.
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The model spews out implications that are demonstrably falsifiable given an appropriate dataset; i.e., if one can lay one's hand on a dataset, then the model's predictions can be verified as either true or false.
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The implications of the refusal of the hand are clear and yet beautifully understated.
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Although sequence similarities among some of the rod and hook proteins were noted in early analyses 24, the degree of paralogy for the ancestral set of flagellar genes, and its implications for the origins of the bacterial flagellum, have gone unrecognized.
Update on PNAS flagellum paper - The Panda's Thumb
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Press coverage of this long-term infrastructural build-up has been remarkably minimal, given the implications for future conflicts in the oil heartlands of the planet.
Nick Turse: As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal, the Pentagon Builds Up Bases in the Region
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It would be foolhardy to try to summarise two days of dense legal argument, much of it to do with definitions, legal boundaries and possible implications of certain wordings in the legislation.
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The bigger picture is the implication this has for the largely unexplored region.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I did, and managed to pull off, not unhandily, a tale called ` A Wayside Comedy’ where I worked for a certain ` economy of implication,’ and in one phrase of less than a dozen words believed I had succeeded.
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Concerns about the clinical implications, the cost of routine medication, and the possible excessive wastage resulting from the return of units to the blood bank have led us to question our practice.
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What's underlying this essay, instead, is Chuck's own implication in the whole scheme.
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The main media outlets have imposed their own, more far-reaching blackout on the case, despite its implications for civil liberties and free speech.
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The shattering implications of Bellesiles' argument for scholars, policy-makers, and ruminators upon the national character are clearly evident, but he leaves them unstated.
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Scientists and thinkers have struggled with the controversy and its implications for humanity for decades.
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the expectation was spread both by word and by implication
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However a red tide can have implications for marine fauna and some organisms including cockles, lugworms and sea potatoes have been washed up onto Sligo beaches as witnessed by many beach users.
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Attrition rates, for tanks and aircraft increased greatly, sparking off a debate about the implication of the new technologies.
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But it is evident that this is but one of many passages where Indra by implication is compared to the sun; and comparisons do not indicate allotropy.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
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Much of this reflects the entrenched acute-service bias of the National Health Service, and major change would have far-reaching implications.
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The implication being that our expectation would be for something quite the opposite?
Times, Sunday Times
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What are the possible implications of the Court of Appeal ruling?
Times, Sunday Times
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The importance of embodiment might have significant implications for rights as well.
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The findings have important implications, as the age of menarche - when menstruation begins - has fallen by two years in the past century.
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This has serious policy implications, because, if we misunderstand the causes of what concerns us, we misdirect our efforts to change it.
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The implication is that these are jobs that would not otherwise have come into existence.
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The paper has stated the inquiry learning and inquiry teaching'implication, and has discussed the biology inquiry teaching' fundamental feature and fundamental segment.
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There is, however, no cost implication where hyperbole is concerned in this business.
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The implication of that for Nottinghamshire's deep mines is catastrophic.
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Animals need to attend to and learn about a stimulus only when its implications for the future are uncertain.
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The paper will also attend to some critical implications of the meter's movement, and will end by pointing to successors of Auden - poets like John Hollander and Marilyn Hacker - who followed his example and took up the alcaic meter in their own verses.
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The potential financial implications of our lengthening lives are terrifying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes, I am sorry, I did not want to make that implication.
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A great many (not all) liberals adopted embryonic stem cells as a cause for the same reason that they have embraced Global Warming: because they like the policy implications and automatically oppose the Bush Administration, the “neocons” and the “Religious Right”, not because they are willing to follow science whithersoever it leadeth.
Stromata Blog:
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But in the scope of this metaphor, the implication is that euthanizing the whales will somehow make room for "better" (sneer quotes) classes of whales to evolve that aren't disoriented by subchaser pings.
Undefined
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Companies are so busy analysing the financial implications that they overlook the effect on workers .
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The voters may see the implications of global turmoil through a glass darkly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The privacy implications are also carefully weighed up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Researchers have produced human embryos containing DNA from three people, a biotechnological proof-of-principle with profound medical and ethical implications.
3-Parent Embryo | Impact Lab
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This has profound implications for our relationship, which should mirror that of Gods; caring and nurturing love for us.
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A falsely high reading on a radiation dosimeter may have very different implications during a bioterrorist incident than during a rat lab experiment.
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However, a more likely issue is the legal implication for falling to monitor use and abuse of narcotic analgesics.
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Mr. Walker: In making decisions about opencast coal applications, one must consider carefully both the short-term and long-term environmental implications.
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Southern Cross, the troubled social care provider, posted half-yearly results yesterday that have implications far beyond the pockets of its investors, or even the 31,000 residents of its 750 care homes, and the staff who work in them, for whom the future is alarmingly uncertain.
Editorial | Social care: Cross purposes
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We elaborate on these extensions by also considering, where appropriate, assessment and treatment implications for depressed individuals.
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On narrative discourse, the existing classification dig out the profound implication imbedded in every genre.
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Whether versions of destruction are to take place within or without the industrial enterprise, the political implications are obvious.
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Under the guise of socialism, it has become a source of cheap labor, with far-reaching implications for economies globally.
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The team, from the university's School of Textiles and Design, based in Galashiels, believe the study could have major implications for retailers.
Archive 2006-01-01
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So, on the question of a separate issue, I do say there was a separate issue here, the implications of the challenge to the planning system as a whole.
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To be ethical, research must be highly sensitive to the implications of invading the privacy of persons being studied.
Sociology
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Hence, we should not only urge our students to think about the broader implications of their studies in ornithology, but to acquire as deep a training in avian biology as possible.
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We shall have to explicate its basic assumptions before we can assess its implications.
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Furthermore we investigate the resource allocation and price dynamics, and presents economic implication of the indeterminacy.
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He smiled, with the implication that he didn't believe me.
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The indirect solutions for ecological appropriation have a more familiar land reform ring but are not without positive environmental implications.
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The win comes as unions call for the focus of drinking to be on impairment, its occupational health and safety implications and its wider causes such as fatigue, overwork, and the use of casuals and outsourcing.
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Then there are the implications that an excessive number of cars have on society s infrastructure.
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Northern California golf clubs increasingly are joining the plastic-spikes-only bandwagon, but the legal implications are not lost on some.
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It would make sense to take legal advice on the options for ownership and any implications.
Times, Sunday Times
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The implication is that it is somehow self-evident that anything so wonderful as this could not possibly have evolved by natural selection.
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Or for a civil engineering student not to appreciate the environmental implications of large-scale works such as the channel tunnel.
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If you buy the biblical spin of the Religious Right folks -- that make up the bulk of the Tea Party movement -- the implication is clear: Jesus will soon return, send all Democrats, gays, blacks, progressives, liberals, college-educated unbelievers, etc., to Hell, while saving what Sarah Palin calls "us" "Real Americans" -- in other words unreconstructed frightened and resentful white lower middle class Americans.
AlterNet
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A final word apropos of post-pop museology: Although this show has just opened, the first edition of the exhibition catalog has already sold out, which proves that an historical show rich in cultural implication can draw people to its concerns.
Art and Design in the Lab
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Questions can be stark, unelaborated; but answers have implications.
Times, Sunday Times
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Curry had observed in his work on combinatory logic in the late 1950's the analogy between implication elimination in natural deduction and functional application.
Chores
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More NYSE Takeover Faces Touchy Issues Justice Department officials will scrutinize the proposed deal for antitrust implications, though the formal launch of an investigation won't happen until the two companies file their premerger notification.
Regulators Line Up to Vet Potential Deal
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His remark seemed to have various possible implications.
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It took a moment for the implications of what she was saying to sink in.
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CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: laser treatment could be a valuable tool for root canal disinfection during endodontic treatment.
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We were careful not to overgeneralize from this single sample of women, but our results do have some implications for care.
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Oscillating universe ideas were popularized by atheists like the late Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov solely to avoid the notion of a beginning, with its implications of a Creator.
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This is the ordinary, all-purpose staccato with no implication of either accent, emphasis or special sharpness.
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Attraction of the land snail Anguispira alternata to fresh faeces of white-tailed deer: implications in the transmission of Parelaphostrongylus tenuis.
Snails and deer poop
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Since the hash is not reversible, there is no danger in the password being captured (even from a memory dump) but this cache does have implications.
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The implication of this is that the INEC chairman might have some sympathy for the PDP since both his appointor and majority of members of the ratifying body are PDP members.
Undefined
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The implication that marital infidelity enhances a leader's credibility is preposterous.
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“But great writers are fallible!”, cries the grammaticaster*, ignoring the implication in this that the grammaticaster is substantially more aware of the rules of our language than its best writers.
2009 September « Motivated Grammar
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He chafed against the implication of coercion in the word imperator: “We could more truly have been titled a protectorate than an empire of the world.”
The Great Experiment
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To leave that as an observation without examining its far-reaching implications seems remiss amidst any sociological exploration.
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Countries which have won their independence or gone through a nationalist revolution usually change their names, and any country or other unit round which strong feelings revolve is likely to have several names, each of them carrying a different implication.
Notes on Nationalism
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“Complementary” is a term prevalent in England, and carries the implication that unconventional therapies can coexist side by side with mainstream medicine.
The Best Alternative Medicine
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Objective:To investigate the changes and clinical implication of plasma angiotensinogen (ATG) concentration in the patients with atherosclerotic cerebral infarction (ACI).
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A far more sinister implication is the creation of an intolerant dogmatic approach to complex issues.
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An important question that then suggests itself is whether tenancy contracts are becoming more stringent and, by implication, whether the class power of landlords is becoming more acute.
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Leading economists say that could have serious implications for growth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Further elucidation of the biochemical processes in these animal models of myopia may have implications for treating myopia in humans.
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She was just a little offended by the implications in his words and was suddenly bored with his arrogance and decided to get rid all the noble-sounding, diplomatic and politic speeches.
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Such an effect could trigger a chain of reactions through entire ecosystems, from whales to fish and shellfish, with huge implications for economies and wildlife.
Times, Sunday Times
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His talk will examine the wider implications of the Internet revolution.
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These are: how much they can expect to receive at retirement in today's terms; what the implications are of delaying pension saving or foregoing it completely; and how much it will cost them compared with what they can expect to receive in pensionable income.
Public sector managers can help ease changes under pension reforms
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His authority and, by implication, that of his management team is under threat.
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It's very disturbing to think about the potential implications of a century-long decline of the base of the food chain," said lead author Daniel Boyce, a marine ecologist.
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The deontic modals ought to have and should have express past obligation, usually with the implication that it was not fulfilled: You ought to have phoned (but you didn't); They should have come in.
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However you see the work, its implication is that the spirit cannot be broken.
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The anatomy of different oaks has implications for barrel making.
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The press conference on improving outreach and education in the cryosphere is great for lots of facts and figures about the frightening rate at which glaciers and sea ice are melting, and the wide ranging implications (it’s a little slow to get going, but worth it once the panelists start).
2009 April 23 | Serendipity
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The statement and its rather odd implication were reported around the world.
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It demands a turning back to oneself in order to understand, and thus has implications and effects which are moral in that they influence how we act.
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The voters may see the implications of global turmoil through a glass darkly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rather than having her verses read as the expression of truly felt passion, they are read as very successful imitations; the implication is that what appears to be the excellency of the imitation is in fact the product of true passion.
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When Aretha Franklin sings opera arias, the implication is that she's so good she can even do this.
'Classical crossover': A label not necessarily to be feared
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He also plays a very dead bat when asked about the potentially sinister implications of advances in artificial intelligence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The implications of such claims, needless to say, are a far cry from traditionary assumptions about romance being a tissue of impossible fantasies and history being a discourse of empirical truth.
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I argue that it was mainly by insisting upon the ontological implications of this concept of possibility that he came to form a concept of contingency that he considered sufficiently strong to counter Spinozist necessitarianism.
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We remain unconvinced by the arguments for CS spray, and feel that it carries a number of health implications.
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All of the essays repeat this same cluster of ideas, developing their implications with different emphases and nuances.
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But the matter has considerable investment implications.
Times, Sunday Times
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This paper is meant to confirm the philosophical implications of Zhuang Zi's ideal of "making all things equal" through conducting a contextual analysis of the text of Zhuang Zi.
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I'd imagine there would be implications from such a move for other distributors in the country.
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What are the implications of this for ensuring that luggage inspectors remain vigilant?
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Mr. Walker: In making decisions about opencast coal applications, one must consider carefully both the short-term and long-term environmental implications.
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It has implications for addiction, attention disorders and stress-related memory loss, said Dr. Don Cooper, assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study conducted in mice.
Tew's Day!
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Her mind had not had time to deal with the wider implications of all that sadistic megalomania trapped inside the woman who ruled Medalon.
TREASON KEEP
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All of this has implications for the effect, if any, of our own counterterrorist and military operations overseas on the level of threat to the U.S. homeland.
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The universities could coordinate distance learning packages for their graduates in various hospitals, although this would have funding and manpower implications.
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But today the implications of such a conflation of different levels of criticism and prejudice are dangerously censorious.
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Does he accept that the public agitation, and the inflammatory comments on websites and elsewhere, could have dangerous implications?
Times, Sunday Times
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What are the implications of historically and culturally informed findings for strategies of educational reform?
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They analysed the implications of the proposals, explaining that it would be used to reduce teaching staff and deskill education.
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The implications for morale, a crucial component in the grim chemistry of war, are obvious.
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At a time when the photography of sculpture in general is being problematized and historicized, it behooves the field to think analytically about the implications of various photographic strategies in its publications.
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But we do not yet know the implications of this for price-competitive tendering.
Times, Sunday Times
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The implications of political apathy and cowardice are all the more significant for these revealing admissions.
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Standard Big Bang cosmogeny does therefore seem to have those metaphysical implications which some have found so discomfiting.
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For any attempt to resolve the issue by pronouncing the work of critique to be wholly isomorphous with the contingent material experiences that gave rise to it or, alternatively, as sublating (aufheben) aesthetic experience into pure abstractions invariably forecloses on the ethical implications of critical practice.
Pfau, Coda & Works Cited'
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Concern over the implications for deterrence of reducing the emphasis on nuclear weapons lay at the centre of many of the doubts expressed over minimum deterrence.
NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
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Interactions between glutamatergic and mono-aminergic systems within the basal ganglia - implications for schizophrenia and
Arvid Carlsson - Autobiography
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The potential medicolegal implications of ototoxicity, therefore, have created a dilemma: we need to determine which topical antibiotic is safe and effective in treating patients with chronic discharge from their ears.
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The long-term implications of these habitat losses for individual species, if the present trends continue, are likely to be disastrous.
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But a vote for him will aid and abet a Democratic leadership that's hell bent on an expansion of government that's a radical departure from the nation's bedrock principles and ruinous in its economic implications.
Daily Press: A Vote for Rigell is a Vote for Bush!
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For Reginfo, the top horizontal line with the curvilinear arrow bears the same connotation as one of the implications of the quartered circle.
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As everyone always notices, the back view reflected in the mirror of the barmaid serving a client in a top hat (who must, by visual implication, be you) is too far to the right to be optically possible.
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The practical implication of the EIMG model was discussed, as well as its applications in the problems of multi-trade investment and n-person prisoner's dilemma.
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This is more than just legal hair-splitting - this designation carries a litany of legal implications, from his ability to be interrogated to his rights at trial.
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this is an implication of diminishing marginal utility of income.
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Yes; but the talk was about rhythm, and cadential six-four chords have rhythmic implications - they determine strong beats.
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The implication of rapidity that most often accompanies the use of careen as a verb of motion may have arisen naturally through the extension of the nautical sense of the verb to apply to the motion of automobiles, which generally careen, that is, lurch or tip over, only when driven at high speed.
Word of the Day
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Implications from such discoveries for effective cryogenics, or the possibility of being able to freeze people for long periods of space travel in the distant future, are nothing short of mind-boggling.
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Rethinking the school run and other short trips has big implications for the rest of us as well.
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The fact that there is in effect only ever one customs barrier for goods to enter the EC also has implications for the battle against organized crime, counterfeit goods, and the like.
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The company is cutting back its spending and I wonder what the implications will be for our department.
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Like so many, I am beyond fed up with an inert, intellectually lazy, nepotistic ALP that refuses to grasp the dangerous long term implications of the current government.
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The council's executive board considered the implications of terminating the existing contract, which has one year left to run, but deferred any decision until next month.
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The implication of the new roles for the language was that creative writers seriously attempted those literary forms which had been neglected earlier, for example drama, short stories and discursive prose.
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This election has profound implications for the future of U.S. democracy.
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His brain reeled as he realized the implication of his dismissal.
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A good art critic is able to bring up for discussion the issues and implications that are inherent in a film, book, or album.
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The award stems from his excellent 2005 paper ‘Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropods and its implications for mass estimates’: required reading here at Tetrapod Zoology Towers (free pdf available here).
Matt Wedel: officially, a bastard
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Daly further elaborated on this theme with his work on “steady state economics” [78] which worked out the implications of acknowledging that the Earth is materially finite and nongrowing, and that the economy is a subset of this finite global system.
An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 2
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This difference in concept has important implications for family inheritance and for the ownership structure.
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You will now release me: the resulting implication being that I bought my freedom at the expense of his.
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It seems uncontroverted that the film-makers injected the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas controversy into North Country, suggesting it had a role in the events the film depicts, even though any such implication would be false.
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The resource implications of a meaningful software acquisition programme are formidable.
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The implication from these results is that Leptosomus is definitely not a 'core coraciiform' (and definitely not a roller) and that, while its precise affinities remain rather unclear, it represents some sort of ancient lineage that might lie within the region of the tree that includes 'nightbirds' and swifts, or piciforms and/or 'core coraciiforms'.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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The clear implication was that the minister should steer clear of issues outside that remit.
Times, Sunday Times
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MEDICARE SCARE TACTICS: Republican candidates routinely and cynically charge that the reform law will "cut" $500 billion from Medicare - leaving the clear implication that benefits will be reduced.
NYT > Home Page
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It was a serene setting against which to digest the implications of such grim news.
Times, Sunday Times
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The discovery has profound implications for astrobiology.
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Basically a wry comedy, it has serious overtones and philosophical implications.
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First we shall outline the implications of describing reading as a skill.
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The TV licensing adverts make the clear but unstated implication that anyone who does not have a licence is breaking the law.
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Their investment in nationalistic chauvinism has dangerous implications.
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The serious implication is that corporate forces paid the "Mystery Man" to frame Johnson because they did not want him to win Olympic gold.
Ben Johnson: 'My revelations will shock the sporting world'
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Prophets is a book-length poem with an ambitiously epic scope, a sensibility and language that is rooted in Jamaica and a work with a markedly religious overtone — not doctrinaire or even ideological, but openly exploring the day-to-day implications of Pentecostalism in Jamaica through a language that is sensual, that invokes myth and reggae and that is best described as risky and experimental.
Poetry Terrors : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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This has implications for the types of ice that constitute the freeze-up cover and for the creation of unique under-ice habitats such as air cavities and those influenced by frazil concentrations.
Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic
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I am not entirely comfortable with the implication that feeling like a fraud or an imposter with regards to intelligence or smarts or academic achievement is something that is unique to women or more prevalent in women.
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Proposing a limiting, exclusionary definition of painting may have broad implications.
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Two predominant features of the fluorescent protein fluorophore have important implications for its utility as a probe.
Archive 2005-10-01
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The implications of the results for comparative trait mapping in junction regions are discussed.
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The NFL could unilaterally institute its final offer to the union -- in that case what the clubs would pay players on what used to be called the "taxi" squads -- without having to worry about the implications of the antitrust laws, which would have made the collusive decision of the owners a clear violation of law.
Roger I. Abrams: Eighth Circuit Heading in the Wrong Direction in Football Dispute
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It follows that policies for rural housing do not consider the social implications which might result from their implementation.
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That, at least, is the implication of some recent research on what's called the "positivity bias.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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By implication, the healthy female is not the healthy adult.
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A quarter were concerned about the resource implication of placements.
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The implication, it seems to me, is that 'faker' is not just an occasional misuse but a common US meaning, and I don't agree.
Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
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I resent the implication that I don't care about my father.
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Several interesting implications arise from these developments.
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His talk will examine the wider implications of the Internet revolution.
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The fable is figure of speech, including noumenon and implication. Zhuangzi's fables are no ( exception ).
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So I noticed," Dundee nodded, recalling the deathly pallor of the girl's face as Sprague had glibly explained away that damning note and all its implications.
Murder at Bridge
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I shall discuss the implications of the dependency ratio for the construction of family obligations in more detail in chapter 3.
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So, just as the existential and predicative uses are not unrelated, neither are the predicative, identity, and generic implication uses unrelated.
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Some important terms were introduced - e.g. 'emic' and 'etic' - but not taken to enough depth in examples to drive home the deeper implications.
PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All
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If you are deeply disturbed by the sinister implications, both corporate and gustatory, imagine my shock as I reeled out of the supermarket, my mind awhirl with the grisliest of possibilities, only to come upon this terrible scene at the docks, mere minutes away (click to enlarge):
The Cannibals of Galway
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The former history professor frequently held court about the technological changes sweeping the nation and the political implications thereof.
DOT.CON
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The implication is that further scientific research will eliminate residual uncertainties, allowing for a more objective assessment of harm.
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An altar, however, has implications for the roofing of the structure and suggests that at least part of the interior was hypaethral.
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He realised that the slowness of this process would have very serious immediate implications for his business.
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Despite the implications of its name, the lingcod does not belong to the cod family.
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The group believe the findings have implications for Irish farmers in the medium term as direct payments are decoupled from production.
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The mutual consent provision, for example, has potentially significant implications should Rhee decide to replace or "reconstitute" some or all of the staffs at schools deemed to be failing under the federal No Child Left Behind law, something she has done in previous years.
D.C. teachers ratify new contract
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The implication is that between now and then the auditors directly employed by the commission are sacked (and join private firms) or somehow retain their pensions and benefits (at huge cost to the public purse) and are magicked across into the private sector.
Abolishing the Audit Commission does not add up
