How To Use Assert In A Sentence
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Once tawhid is accepted as the first axiom of thought, the goal of life becomes bridging the gap between the asserter and the asserted.
William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam and the Goal of Love
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A couple of commendable but slight folk covers albums in the early Nineties lead to assertions of writer's block.
The Sun
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Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
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Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
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An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
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The preoccupation with the problem of evil, asserts Nietzsche, enervates the human spirit.
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Now, moreover, with the nation in an economic downturn, is not the time to assert the urgency of passing referendum legislation.
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It ain 'fittin' fo 'you-all to say anythin' ag'in 'Dr. Morgan, whatever he may _se_-lect to do," asserted Bud, combatively, and Pink hastened to hedge.
A Tar-Heel Baron
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These institutions have made the assertion of ethnic identity possible.
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Mr Vermes, who was close to that research effort, finds good reason to criticise it for slowness and carelessness—but no ground to assert a conspiracy.
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Just last year, pinkos raised a stink over the NCERT's deleting of certain offensive and unauthenticated assertions from history books.
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This sits badly with the Act assertion that all data be ‘obtained fairly’.
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Many of Rogers' assertions and specific rebuttals (which form, in effect, a counter-reading of Kornbluh's book) are best answered by Kornbluh himself.
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Perhaps spurred by the era of Republican dominance and a reassertive ruling class, historians have given new attention to the plantocracy.
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As for the others, if I were them, I'd be grateful right now about the fact, as you so frequently and paranoidly assert, that the mainstream media "ignores" you.
Liblogs News Feed
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The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements.
California Cool
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Each time he gets a black cube it confirms the assertion that all six cubes are black.
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Tony Abbott certainly believes if you repeat it often enough a baseless assertion becomes fact.
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Edward III tried to assert his independence of the regime at court.
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The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party
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Women have become more assertive in the past decade.
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Think Progress Appearing on Imus In the Morning to promote his new book, State of Emergency, Pat Buchanan asserted that the Mexican government has a “direct program” to reannex “the seven states of the American Southwest.”
Think Progress » Buchanan: Mexico Conspiring To ‘Re-Annex’ Seven Southwest States
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But how do you make sure you don't tip into demanding too much or go too far the other way and get lazy about asserting your needs?
The Sun
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Be assertive without being aggressive and be clear about what you want.
The Sun
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Some of the confidence and assertiveness comes from having spent time in government, and now we've identified ways where we want to make our push," said a senor administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss White House thinking on the Middle East developments.
As Arabs protest, Obama administration offers assertive support
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He asserted his innocence and his financial probity.
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The word has reasserted the romantic, courageous quality that the poet Keats, in “Endymion,” gave it: “Adventuresome, I send/My herald thought into a wilderness.”
No Uncertain Terms
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Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction.
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It was an enjoyable evening but the danger of where we seem to be going kept reasserting itself like a descant to the pleasant sound of casual conversation.
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An authoritative German voice crisped the air, asserting itself above the general drone.
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Familiar animosity between the two services asserted itself.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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Be assertive without being aggressive and be clear about what you want.
The Sun
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They might also expect a return visit from an official with a search warrant wishing to verify the truth of the destruction assertion. ill lich
TSA subpoenas, threatens two bloggers who published non-classified airline security directive Boing Boing
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Many would no doubt take issue with me on that simple assertion, citing personal reasons why it is not so.
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Max Bedacht was not the kind of frowsy, self-assertive Communist most Congressmen were accustomed to encountering.
On being called a bigot and/or racist
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But others, founding their assertions upon more plausible reasoning, say that the petty Mussulman kings, who were the neighbours or tributaries of Benabad, justly alarmed at his alliance with a {93} Christian king, solicited the support of the Almoravide.
History of the Moors of Spain
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In summer they go barefoot, but seldom barelegged, as has been lately asserted by a traveller.
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One researcher has called the neem scene an "uncharted jungle" of miscellaneous assertions, disconnected details, and limitless possibilities.
2 The Reality
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distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion
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On top of abuse, midwives also face a far more assertive and confident middle class mother than they did even 15 years ago.
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I believe Whit is correct in asserting that we should teach all our children (male and female) to refuse anything they [[really]] do not want to do — when they are young and when they areolder.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
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The apodeictical proposition cogitates the assertorical as determined by these very laws of the understanding, consequently as affirming a priori, and in this manner it expresses logical necessity.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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To me- this kind of guiltless assertion of one’s own soul, this demand to control one’s own life- that’s the heart of it, that’s what turns my head to know that someone really means ‘liberty’.
Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #40
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Avoid making intuitively obvious but unfounded assertions.
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Making vaguely related assertions in response to an argument is not a counter-argument.
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Moral pluralism asserts the existence of a multitude of incompatible but morally valuable forms of life.
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To start with this is an unproven assertion based all too obviously on a cosy view of a mythical working class family from the Fifties.
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Had there been concerns about any aspect of the process it can confidently be asserted that they would have found expression.
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No documentation was produced to verify that assertion, nor was her son called as a witness at trial.
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The logic of assertoric sentences (Åukasiewicz also considered its modal extension) has the following form.
Lvov-Warsaw School
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Muhammed Ali westernizes Egypt, asserting some independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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It showed that she was finding it very hard to be assertive, and her son was confused by his mother's contradictory signals.
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This ruinous legacy continues to reassert itself at each crucial turn of the country's history.
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I must also challenge his assertion that most businesses are closed at weekends.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neither does he explicitly assert that our natural beliefs are true.
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A paradox of much of the fashion business is that it asserts the right to set trends while refusing to take risks.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a result of this selection being chosen, testing for a liberal media bias, whether one views it as an assertion or an assumption was not within the purveyance of this study.
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Or they asserted that all those landlubberly creatures had walked dry-shod across a natural bridge or had swum short distances between stepping-stones, and that one such formation or another had since disappeared beneath the waves.
Galapagos
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Be assertive without being aggressive and be clear about what you want.
The Sun
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He never merely asserts: every paragraph bristles with footnotes and quiet exposition.
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They also challenge his assertion that the countries would be great friends after separation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other than a few academically toned articles, I have yet to meet or read anyone who will actually back up their assertions with references to the books.
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She had achieved a balance between her vulnerable, nurturing, feeling side and the rational, assertive, analytical side.
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The report asserts confidently that the industry will grow.
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When it was too late to alter the course of events, the party's leaders found the courage to assert themselves.
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He said: 'We have to be careful about asserting the supremacy our cultural standards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scholars assert that hanging the wine bottle in smoke matured wine faster and improved its taste.
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Augustinianism), which, by definition, asserted that humans were fallen, imperfect, and imperfectible by their own devices.
Dad29
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The deep breaths exhaled by his broad lines, his declarative sentences and their assertive plangency, his deliberate tactlessness and brave humor, redirect the reader to a history of poetic Yanks: Whitman, Williams.
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National pride began to assert itself.
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Is it an instrument of social oppression or of national self-assertion?
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They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence, uninfluenced by the emphasis or confidence with which assertions are made on one side or the other.
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The alpha males (I guess) feel obliged to rear up periodically and assert their fiefdom with a ‘roar.’
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The longer he batted, the more confident and assertive he became.
The Sun
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Abusers are often suspicious and jealous, suffer from low self-esteem and need to assert themselves.
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Litigator London: are you asserting a blockading power can only stop a vessel in territorial waters; and that vessel being stopped has to be flagged by the blockaded entity?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
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The story might have him playing an effete easterner converted into a "real" American by the Old West, or demonstrating manly American virtues in decadent Europe or corrupt Latin America, or good-humoredly asserting American common sense in response to vogues like health faddism or pacifism, but in all these plots he was the exact same wholesome, attractive fellow he had always been.
The Silent Superstar
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Nowhere in the report does she provide evidence for these assertions:they are merely dogmatically stated as fact.
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The assertional analysis identified relationships between nouns, connectives, and operators in phrases.
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The autumn air is thick with assertions that the Prime Minister's luck is finally running out.
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UK education ministers continually assert that the education system is not dumbing down - pupils are getting smarter.
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Assertion: Michelle Obama's affectionate fist bump with her husband as they walked offstage was a "terrorist fist jab" (in the words of Fox anchorperson E.D. Hill).
Robert Koehler: The Shadow Platform
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The other rousing chapter, entitled ‘Truth and history’, asserts the historicity of the Bible - that Christianity is rooted in history.
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I am trying to strike a balance between assertive and fair and stubborn and inflexible.
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In tandem with a reform of the modern Mass, already tentatively under way, the foundations could be laid for a return to dignified worship and reassertion of doctrine.
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England are also led by a manager who is still struggling to get his team to assert themselves confidently, as a record of damaging draws suggests.
Times, Sunday Times
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Parson, laying his pipe on his hand, “fourteenthly, it is calumniously asserted by the opposers of divine truth that on this hypothesis God made men to damn them; but we say
Margaret
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Although the first generation of women priests had to fight to assert their identity, those problems have been ironed out.
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An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
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All this you asserted in terms unbecoming the place in which you stood, unbecoming the person to which they were addressed, and highly improper to be used by one who spoke about what he did not under - stand.
Junius : including letters by the same writer, under other signatures, (now first collected) to which are added, his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters addressed to Mr. H.S. Woodfall ; with a preliminary essay, notes, fac
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We can begin to restore the public purpose of corporations by asserting their responsibility and accountability to all stakeholders.
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And Aristotle is surely mistaken in asserting that knowledge is always causal.
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As to the latter, Judge Berzon in her opinion said, “Here, however, Coalition has not proven except by assertion that the remaining detainees have no relationship with anyone who could appropriately serve to litigate the legality of the detention.”
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
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Cutting across these lines, there is the question of how to interpret the assertion, proffered by the Rebbe himself, that a rebbe is the Essence and Being of God.
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In any case, my assertion that The Airlords Of Han is a terrible novel (racist or not) is entirely correct.
The “Buck Rogers” Quandry – In Which I Contradict Previous Views « The Graveyard
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Sustained by the truth received from her divine Founder, the Church has ever sought to fulfill holily the mission entrusted to her by God; unconquered by the difficulties on all sides surrounding her, she has never ceased to assert her liberty of teaching, and in this way the wretched superstition of paganism being dispelled, the wide world was renewed unto Christian wisdom.
Libertas Praestantissimum
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Perhaps the most remarkable proposition in Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical letter Caritas in Veritate, therefore, is the controversial assertion that gratuity-or as the official English translation frequently reads, "gratuitousness" - is essential to economic life.
Catholic Community Speaks | AmericanCatholic.org
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Any objective scrutiny of the list of banned organisations makes a mockery of this last assertion.
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Mothers should train their daughters from a young age to protect themselves so that they grow up to be assertive.
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To start with this is an unproven assertion based all too obviously on a cosy view of a mythical working class family from the Fifties.
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Extreme assertions of diversity, such as Kallen's, imply a kind of racial or ethnic essentialism and separatism, not merely cultural pluralism.
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Living ‘by faith in’ suggests that faith is a profession to be asserted, a willed thing.
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In the mud of their complacently perpetuated barnyard pond, they assert that no bright-browed, bright-apparelled shining figures can be outside of fairy books, old histories, and ancient superstitions.
THE KANAKA SURF
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However, equally I don't think one can credibly take a blithely post-modern approach and mutter vaguely about ‘multiple truths’, if basic historical factual assertions have been misstated.
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We are, of all countries on the planet, the most apologetic about asserting our common values.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strident, assertive saddlebacks begin argumentative vocal duels, their staccato ‘Yak-yak - yak-yak’ in ever longer and louder volleys.
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Despite the shortage of qualified dhammaduta monks, scattered across the West there are a few Theravada viharas and Buddhist centres whose incumbents, in their own quiet and non-assertive way, are working to spread the Dhamma.
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The normal curve approach to inference begins by asserting a null hypothesis that is expressed using population parameters.
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Sidney as a poet, therefore, understandably asserts the improving role of poetry against those hostile to literature.
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You need to be assertive but not aggressive.
Everything You Need to Know for Success in Business
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Kathleen" was, as its 1892 subtitle asserted, "An Irish Drama".
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Like the Islamic and Ottoman works that follow, they show how quickly this region surmounts destruction and reasserts its cultural traditions.
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The current Court is ‘papalist,’ issuing edicts from the top down, and he suggests one remedy is for Congress to be more assertive in giving definition to the Constitution.
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The Esquimaux prefer it raw in these parts of the world (although some travellers assert that in more southern latitudes they prefer cooked meat), and with good reason, for it is much more nourishing than cooked flesh; and learned, scientific men, who have wintered in the Arctic regions, have distinctly stated that in those cold countries they found raw meat to be better for them than cooked meat, and they assure us that they at last came to _prefer_ it!
The World of Ice
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It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert. Nathaniel Branden
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By the time the number of examples of myths, false assertions and cases of deliberate disinformation had reached 40 I reckoned it was time to publish them.
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Yes, there are a number of uncertainties — Will contingent obligations (like guaranty claims, or liabilities on asserted but as yet unliquidated lawsuit claims) become due?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Greek Bailout and Liquidity Risk
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I would like to begin by dismissing the assertion that the AVC is nothing but a gang of toughs who go about setting fire to kittens and extorting cash from other VUWSA funded activity groups.
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He also asserted that the day of the cottage industry was over.
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In the years since then the assertorical view of literature has grown in my estimation.
The authority to comment
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Although quite small, the seven-year-old has become a remarkably assertive traveler.
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Among the rarest copper coins was one of Carausius (our English Carew), with two heads on it symbolling the ambition of our native usurper to assert empire over East as well as West, and among more treasure-trove was a unique gold coin of Veric, ” the Bericus of Tacitus; as also the rare contents of a subterranean potter's oven, preserved to our day, and yielding several whole vases.
My Life as an Author
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Only after women have been able to assert their rights in all spheres of society and culture have they been able to exert their rights in divorce court, but that is a subject for another article.
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I am naturally, ...err , flattered that you refer to me as 'estimable', but am surprised that the only answer to the perfectly justified observation I made that it is 'bonkers' to assert that there have been 'deliberate moves' to break up the normal family as an aside, whatever that is is to make this comment:
[those days] under the microscope
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Not necessarily a ground-breaking assertion, but I'll bet there's more than a few folks out there who could use a walloping masterpiece of ethereal but hard-driving psychedelic garage rock.
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Out of their constitutional optimism, and because a class struggle is an abhorred and dangerous thing, the great American people are unanimous in asserting that there is no class struggle.
THE CLASS STRUGGLE
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In a single phrase, these words exempt the sentence's subsequent assertions of human equality and unalienable rights from the claims of traditional conduct, metaphysical certainty, and scientific proof.
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A polarity is set up between the assertive convex solidity of Broadcasting House and the receptive concavity and lightness of the suspended facade.
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To assert the extent of your land, you might hold a ceremony called a "perambulation," in which you would walk around and record the boundaries of your property in the presence of witnesses.
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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And for the assertion laid down, I desire that those who despise and reproach it would attempt an answer unto the ensuing arguments whereby it is confirmed, with those others which shall be insisted on in our description of the nature of the work of regeneration itself, and that upon such grounds and principles as are not destructive of Christian religion nor introductive of atheism, before they are too confident of their success.
Pneumatologia
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Was it just and reasonable that the defendant should owe a duty of care of the scope asserted by the plaintiff?
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Democracies, many classical Greeks believed, were slow to fight, but more effective when they fought (ancient memory suggests this assertion is somewhere in Thucydides, but I could not find the exact citation).
Balkinization
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Nor are these assertions mere neutral constations; they are exhortative performatives that require the passage from sheer enunciation to action.
Reading, Begging, Paul de Man
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Acutely sensitive to vulnerability, he delineated unassertive fortitude with steady expertise.
Times, Sunday Times
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The amount of water used to put out the twelve minute bonfire proves this assertion.
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The evidence supporting the assertion would presumably be the available statistical data.
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Your blatant evasion of the main tenet of my assertion proves to me that you do not understand the basics of the Constitution.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 30, 2010
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After a few miserable days at Flensburg, trying to make himself agreeable to Doenitz and to assert his importance; suffering humiliations that were a constant source of embarrassment to his staff; and deserted by many of his closest companions who had already set off on their private journeys to ranch cattle in the Argentine or collect butterflies in Switzerland,
Barbarossa
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This may mean ignoring the frequent assertion by critics that in adventure stones character must be subordinate to action.
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By reconstructing the colonized subjects as warriors rather than as victims, the poem and the play assert the legitimacy of the nationalist struggle.
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But after 1947, Nehru began to assert his supremacy and sack party chiefs who opposed him.
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And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.
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Settling down has been the Turks' secret to asserting their dominion. Traditionally a nomadic people, they have at last adopted a system of centralised rule to form the Seljuk Empire.
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In this book, Jacques asserts that though his divers have played with octopuses (very well: octopodes) hundreds of times, they have never once been bitten - and have never even heard of such an incident.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks
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Pietersen chose a more assertive route, his backlift full again, justifying his assertion in Perth last week that he was "on fire".
Paul Collingwood's 94 puts England on front foot in Adelaide
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They assert that the student has been incapacitated by the power differential, and must be in need of their protection.
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If we put the sentence in the passive form, "The man was found _dead_," it will be seen that _dead_ is more than a mere modifier; it belongs to _man_ through the assertive force of _was found_.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
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Dewey's instrumentalism was both a theory and a method of inquiry for solving problems and for generating truth, or what he called warranted assertion.
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She makes very general assertions about marriage in the poem.
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Lying in clouds of scent in the sunken tub filled to the brim, that streak of equanimity she had asserted itself.
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On Dig Your Own Hole, Beth Orton's looping lament to wasted comedown mornings gradually elided into one of that record's most assertive beats.
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He has the assertive, husky voice and the confident, forthright manner of an athlete.
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We must not believe, notwithstanding the assertions of almost all zoological writers, that the word orang-otang is applied exclusively in the Malay language to the Simia satyrus of
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
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Let us examine how actualist representationists handle apparent modal truths asserting the possibility of non-actual objects.
Possible Objects
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The report's tone is admonitory, its assertions sweeping.
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Now, the perpetrator governments have agreed to this legal conclusion, although they maintain the implausible assertion that gun confiscations were not the result of official policy.
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The organizers of the ships were offered to bring their assertedly humanitarian cargo into an Israeli port (Ashdod), and after inspection for contraband, everything else would be transshipped toGaza.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity
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Some civic organizations and academic circles asserted that the previous passage of the particular bills was null and void, as they were voted upon without the required quorum.
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He thought about giving up his job, but then common sense reasserted itself.
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Mr. Helm plans to assert that the bill violates the First Amendment.
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Is feminity only about asserting yourself as woman when you find yourself left behind in a swirl of progressive women?
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I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation.
Wuthering Heights
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Leonsis might stand alone with that assertion, but at any rate, here's more of what he had to say today at the National Press Club, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood bogger:
Ted Leonsis: NHL is stronger financially than NBA
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He might have been too gentle a soul for the furnace of the Old Firm, but if he were a spikier character he had plenty of evidence from which to formulate an assertive case for his own defence.
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Be assertive and spell out exactly how you feel.
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It is not acceptable to announce repeatedly to the world that we don't torture, that we abide by all our treaty obligations, and that we treat detainees "humanely" -- only to engage in secret waterboarding and hypothermia, based on equally secret legal determinations that construe the words "torture" and "humane" in an Orwellian fashion, that diminish treaty obligations down to nothing, and that assert a right of the President to ignore all statutory limits.
Balkinization
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It is a quick, single move which breaks the flow and reasserts one's control over the situation.
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What the group accepts is correctly assertable or true for the group members.
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Noyes asserts that the tube sometimes perforates the side of the ducks throat, and he gives Rat Munching on Ducks Bloody Ass Wounds its public debut as he notes, Rats were eating these two ducks alive.
The Foie Gras Wars
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He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.
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They further assert that this value is consistent with eyewitness accounts.
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He asks: "Is there any scientific evidence to back up the assertions of clinical ecology?
An Alternative Approach to Allergies
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But he asserted his innocence almost immediately after his plea.
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Experience, we all assert, is a good thing, a necessary thing, the difference between a qualified practitioner and a tyro.
Archive 2009-05-01
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He regarded most of the new people as noisy, assertive, and ignorant of maritime knowledge, traditions and courtesy.
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The term allegation implies just that, alleged, an unproved assertion.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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But the company has vigorously asserted that its marketing practices do not violate the 1995 consent decree.
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The accusation is that they disregard the legitimacy of contrary opinion on the principle that judgement is their prerogative alone, that they are asserting a privileged status, expecting it to be recognised.
More on Critique
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You can tautologically assert that it is “rational” for a person in accord to “true preferences” that are “revealed” by their action in eating cheeseburger after cheeseburger only to later be deeply ostracized by society for being fat and then later to suffer a horrible death at a young age, but this is just nonsense.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism
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Despite the narrator's poetically expressed assertion that "history tightropes toward family," history barely puts in an appearance here.
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Dr. Kinsbourne asserted that mercury-induced neuroinflammation caused excitotoxicity, which manifested as overarousal of individuals with
Autism Hub
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Then Jack is killed and their stern father Ray reacts with unconcealed fury, asserting: ‘He took the wrong son.’
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In a day filled with numerous sidebars requested by the Assistant District Attorney Thomas, Smith maintained her innocence and asserted that Laura Jones could not have committed the crime.
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You're too timid-you must try to assert yourself more.
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China has recently revived maritime territorial claims that had been left dormant, and confronted the navies of other nations to assert those claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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Says Burka: "One way to assert your independence is by procrastinating, even if the person you are rebelling against is yourself.
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A solemn vow, the most immense assertion of the will that any person makes in the course of a lifetime.
Times, Sunday Times
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Giles Fraser decides to not listen and instead assert (or might we be controvesial and say "dissemble") that the Pope has condemned gay
An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy
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She rejected the assertion that South Africa had "finessed" its position.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Britain today is less assertive and confident.
Times, Sunday Times
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All had clashed with their civilian superiors, and their campaigns imploded for the same reasons that led to those clashes: assertions of intellectual superiority, moral certitude and the lack of a common touch.
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It is an open question, however, when such declarations are to be taken as identity assertions, with pantheistic or acosmic intentions, and when they are perhaps hyperbolic variations on descriptions of union-type experiences.
Mysticism
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I'd like to see exactly how that assertion can be reconciled with the original statement.
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The only thing that has really changed is my confidence in asserting those opinions and not second-guessing myself.
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Friday's letter, however, states that Thomas actually did report the sources of his wife's income until 1997, therefore heightening the inference that the justice had not "misunderstood the reporting instructions," as he asserted in January when he filed seven pages of addenda correcting his omissions over a six-year period.
Clarence Thomas Assailed For Alleged Ethical Lapses By More House Dems
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What we are seeing from some reasserters is outward forms which are Anglican accompanied by an inward ecclessiology which is congregationalist.
Who are the real Anglicans? « Anglican Samizdat
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What more reasonable than that this should be done, while living witnesses may yet be called, to prove or disprove the several allegations and assertions; since, in a few years more, such witnesses may be as much wanting as to prevent a canonization, which is therefore prudently procrastinated for above an age?
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings
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[559] In _Passiflora_ the organogeny of the flower clearly shows the truth of this assertion, as was indeed shown by Payer and Schleiden.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Table 5.3, by the way, asserts the the five-kingdom model of Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, and Monera is the “system predominantly used today” p.
ACSI v. Stearns, aka Wendell Bird vs. UC - The Panda's Thumb
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Moreover, inflows of food have correlated with Pyongyang's crackdown on the fledgling markets and reinstitution of the government-run public distribution system as the regime uses food rations to reassert political control.
Food For North Korea's Poor, but Not for Its Government
