How To Use Asserted 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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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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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 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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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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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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Familiar animosity between the two services asserted itself.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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In summer they go barefoot, but seldom barelegged, as has been lately asserted by a traveller.
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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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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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Augustinianism), which, by definition, asserted that humans were fallen, imperfect, and imperfectible by their own devices.
Dad29
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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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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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Living ‘by faith in’ suggests that faith is a profession to be asserted, a willed thing.
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Kathleen" was, as its 1892 subtitle asserted, "An Irish Drama".
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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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He also asserted that the day of the cottage industry was over.
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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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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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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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But he asserted his innocence almost immediately after his plea.
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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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Dr. Kinsbourne asserted that mercury-induced neuroinflammation caused excitotoxicity, which manifested as overarousal of individuals with
Autism Hub
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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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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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Women who affirm their loyalty to halakhah have also asserted their own reading of halakic texts.
Jewish Feminism in the United States.
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The sense in which the existence of something answering to a definite description used for the purpose of identifying reference, and its distinguishability by an audience from anything else, is presupposed and not asserted in an utterance containing such an expression, so used, stands absolutely firm, whether or not one opts for the view that radical failure of the presupposition would deprive the statement of a truth-value.
Peter Frederick Strawson
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However, Celtic quickly reasserted themselves and were back on level terms following an Alan Hosey header from a great John Reid cross.
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The natives asserted that they were produced by the inhabitants of shells, and they showed us some which they called the crying shells, from which they asserted the sounds proceeded.
My First Voyage to Southern Seas
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Throughout the Cold War, the Allies asserted their right to move freely between the two Berlins.
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The company asserted that its balance sheet was strong and that it would not have to hand back the franchise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only after last week's disastrous performance, in which Cho went for laughs by getting tangled in her costume's gold batwings, this week her partner Louis Van Amstel has asserted himself and put the kibosh on all stabs at humor.
'Dancing with Stars': quick steps, Sarah Palin -- and Great Booing Debate
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He asserted that democracy needs ‘a web of rules, regulations, institutions, laws, morals, public opinion and conventions’.
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Very often, when you look at what the defense attorney now labels a recantation, you see that in fact the witness has not really recanted anything at all, but instead has merely asserted somehow or other that they think the individual is innocent usually in the abstract, without addressing specific factual questions or prior statements by that witness.
The Volokh Conspiracy » New Way to Resolve Actual Innocence Claims in Capital Cases?:
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Throughout the Cold War, the Allies asserted their right to move freely between the two Berlins.
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For narratology, legitimate signals must have been authorized as such, demonstrably asserted by the text either in explicit statement or through conventional signs like quotation marks.
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When Jefferson asserted the self-evident nature of truth it was no simple rhetorical flourish.
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He persistently asserted his right to a share in the heritage.
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My sane sensible side reasserted itself quickly, but just for one second after seeing a room for let in Brighton, I was about to just up and leave.
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It may thus be judged whether, as some writers have asserted without the slightest knowledge of the facts, the Fronde was a great and generous cause which failed of obtaining success.
Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2)
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Since the binding of signifier to signified is non-essential — such that a cigar may just be a cigar — and is often even idiolectic and idiosyncratic — such that what is significant to the advocate, A, may be significant only to them — the conventionality of semantic associations must be taken as a standard of approximate objectivity in order to distinguish the uncoupling of conventionally-accepted pairings (as, say, where the advocate is highlighting a well-established symbolism of anti-Semitism) from the rejection of idiosyncratically-asserted couplings (as, say, where the advocate is reading a pepper mill as a phallic symbol); the former constitutes insignification while the latter is simply a denial of significance.
Arguing With Geeks 8
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The first jurisdictional issue is, are the claims asserted in the Request For Arbitration within the scope of the arbitration clause EEMC has invoked?
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The local authority asserted that the threshold conditions, under which a care order could be made, had been met.
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They examine those cases in which the President has asserted or relied upon a claim of preclusive war powers.
Archive 2008-03-01
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In time the Soviet bloc might begin to break up as nationalism reasserted itself among the satellite states.
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They asserted that while printed materials have a certain fixity and finitude, texts published via the Internet have a much more fluid character.
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It has been asserted that the darnel is a degenerated kind of wheat; and attempts have been made to give additional significance to our Lord's instructive parable by injecting this thought; there is no scientific warrant for the strained conception, however, and earnest students will not be misled thereby.
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
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The plain Anglo-Saxon yeoman strain which was really the basis of his nature now asserted itself in the growing conservatism of ideas which marked the last forty years of his life.
A History of English Literature
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It is asserted by some to possess properties fully equal to those of the I. aquifolium of Europe, the inner bark of which also yields a viscid substance called birdlime; its leaves are esteemed as a diaphoretic in the form of infusion; employed in catarrh, pleurisy, small-pox, etc.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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Such interconnection is traditionally asserted in the principle of causality or natural law.
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The case revolved on an inaccurate affidavit used to get a search warrant, the evidence obtained as a result of which was, of course, "legally contaminated" and so, the case should not have been pressed using that evidence, asserted Deputy District Attorney Ceballos in a memorandum to his superordinates in the office.
Garcetti v. Ceballos; Alito Kills Whistleblowing
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Experts scurried to explain their errant prognostications, which had asserted that the race would be too close to call.
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So, despite all the screaming and wailing from the right about how Obama threatens America, an unnerving bipartisan consensus on the key precepts of American militarism has, in 2010, fully re-asserted itself.
Jonathan Weiler: Deafening Silence: Why Our Ongoing Wars Are Not a Campaign Issue
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And the Food and Drug Administration has asserted that it has the right to limiting tobacco advertising.
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In the midst of this appalling ruin of the monuments of man's power, nature asserted her ascendancy, and shone more beauteous from the contrast.
III.9
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A counterinsurgency requires an insurgency against a legitimate government, whose authority can be reasserted.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was the way in which uncertainty asserted itself in Heisenberg's original formulation of quantum mechanics.
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He asserted his ideas loudly and clearly.
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Gwynn also asserted that club officials allowed his weight to influence their projection of his playing performance.
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The Iconoclasts asserted that religious images were both blasphemous and impossible.
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Kathleen" was, as its 1892 subtitle asserted, "An Irish Drama".
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If prostitution is a form of rape, as radical feminists have asserted, then how can anybody in prostitution have a wonderful experience with it?
Thoughts on rescues, rescuers and realities « Bound, Not Gagged
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The defenders of our health care system have asserted themselves strongly, and the advocates of the two-tier system are for the moment, in retreat.
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In fact, the sages asserted that someone who embarrasses another person in public is akin to a murderer.
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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 to Gaza.
Boarding a ship in international waters
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Let us not be too hasty in pressing any opinion arising and divulged with odious consequences of sedition, turbulency, and the like, because tumults and troubles happen in the commonwealth where it is asserted.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Indeed, Piaget asserted that the basic principles of cognitive development are the same as those of biological development.
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Hayes asserted that he had been deceived by the southern promises to maintain order.
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At last, common sense had reasserted itself.
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It is asserted, and probably with some degree of truth, that when dainty, over-fed stock loathe their food, they are induced to eat greedily by mixing the "condimental" with their ordinary food.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
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Logical positivists denied the soundness of metaphysics and traditional philosophy; they asserted that many philosophical problems are indeed meaningless.
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Now is the time for us to begin to make the tough choices, RSC Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.) told Roll Call, who asserted the proposal was only a list of suggested cuts, not an exclusive list and that not every member of the [RSC] will agree with every cut.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: House Republican Study Committee document recommends huge cuts
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They successfully asserted their right to protect their homes.
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It is asserted, for example, that, on a particular occasion, water was turned into wine; and, on the other hand, it is asserted that a man or a woman "levitated" to the ceiling, floated about there, and finally sailed out by the window.
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
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The company asserted that its balance sheet was strong and that it would not have to hand back the franchise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stevenson thought Daudet "incomparably" the best of the present French novelists and asserted that "Kings in Exile" comes "very near to being
The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)
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French cooking, she asserted, is the best in the world.
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Chief minister BS Yeddyurappa cautioned the Congress against any attempt to "vitiate" the law and order situation with their provocative speeches and asserted that his government was capable of handling such situations.
Daily News & Analysis
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Trotsky asserted that, just as an earthquake revealed the layers of earth and rock beneath the surface, so a social upheaval would uncover the layers of society and its myriad forms.
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Said-Bookisms That Are Usually Safe asked lied admitted snapped declared accused replied (even though it should be obvious) exclaimed roared yelled speculated mused demanded whispered asserted countered cut in hissed (this sticks out a lot, though … use it very sparingly) barked (this also sticks out)
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Don’t Overuse Exotic Substitutes for “Said”
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This fine body of Indian cavalry and camelry reported that affairs seemed serious up the Tiban valley; then inertia reasserted itself and they were recalled.
Pan-Islam
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Indeed, Piaget asserted that the basic principles of cognitive development are the same as those of biological development.
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The friends of free coinage stoutly asserted that this purchase of silver bullion would not only prevent its depreciation, but would advance its market value, and thus be a gain to the government.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
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Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, one of the co-sponsors of the reform act, asserted, "China's currency manipulation has been among the greatest impediments to our manufacturing sector.
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We there found some fine specimens of blue carbonated copper mingled with sulphate of barytes and quartz; but we could not ourselves judge whether the ore contained any argentiferous fahlerz, and whether it occurred in a stratum, or, as the apothecary who was our guide asserted, in real veins.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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A tantalus containing three kinds of spirit, all of a liqueur excellence, stood always on this table of luxury; but the fanciful have asserted that the whisky, brandy, and rum seemed always to stand at the same level.
The Complete Father Brown
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Had it been merely asserted that the verses in question were wanting in _many_ of the copies, — even had it been insisted that _the best copies_ were without them, — well and good: but to assert that, in the beginning of the fourth century, from “_almost all_” copies of the Gospels they were away, — is palpably untrue.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
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The Church's autonomy from political power was asserted gradually and painstakingly, but irreversibly, despite the recurring waves of caesaropapism, fundamentalism, and anticlericalism, becoming one of the main pillars of modern Western civilization.
Tea at Trianon
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the asserted value of the painting
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Some military officials have asserted that the effects of exposure to chemical agents would have been evident among those troops almost immediately.
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Never from the time yoke was first put upon him had a man succeeded in budging him against his will. it was asserted that he had caused more gray hairs to grow in the heads of the Selbyville farmers than all the mortgages of the past three generations.
Old Baldy
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It was not, as its critics asserted, meant to presage an alliance between the Left and the Liberals.
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It is commonly asserted that older people prefer to receive care from family members.
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It is commonly asserted that older people prefer to receive care from family members rather than state agencies.
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Mark Ridley, who currently serves as a professor of zoology at punctuationist, uses the fossil record as evidence in favour of the theory of evolution as opposed to Lamarck's theory of evolution asserted that evolution occurs because organisms are able to inherit traits acquired by their ancestors which is an idea rejected by the current scientific community. did not propose an evolutionary process for a species to transform into a more complex version.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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A statement issued on behalf of the publisher said that it reasserted its support for the original order and repeated that it would never knowingly contravene a court order.
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In the commons, Pitt asserted that the rupture of the negociations was wholly due to the directory, who demanded, not as an ultimatum, but as a preliminary, to retain all territories of which the war had given them possession; and respecting which they had thought proper to pass a decree, annexing them unalienably to the republic.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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Some women have asserted the sensuous pleasure of nurturing.
The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
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Neither side has asserted that the sworn evidence is inherently improbable.
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A company in liquidation could not assert any cause of action it could not have asserted before the commencement of its liquidation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, one of the co-sponsors of the reform act, asserted, "China's currency manipulation has been among the greatest impediments to our manufacturing sector.
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Lyotard has thus asserted the existence of two alternative economies of desire.
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The communique asserted, misleadingly, that Arte Communications had organized Taiwan's debut.
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Olegt, you have asserted that Abbie is competent and in explaining this pointed to her ability to blog well and her a finding a mistake by Behe.
About: Blinded by Science
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Some Confucianists asserted that Confucianism was anti-mercantile.
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And I did actually think last night he kind of reasserted that slightly sterner, but more kind of firm Obama that we like.
CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2009
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She asserted that she was innocent.
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Australia's forced retirement savings, called superannuation, fueled Macquarie's model, which the bank asserted would offer the safety of bonds but with higher yields and less volatility than stocks.
Macquarie Contends With Valuation Gap
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You, after all, are the very same premier who had the word Caledonia surgically removed from his cerebral cortex and who publicly asserted that black-only schools in Toronto were a bad idea, but steadfastly refused to get involved.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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French cooking, she asserted, is the best in the world.
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Corallines much resemble fossil or petrified wood; and we recollect to have received from the landlady of an inn at Portsmouth a small branch of _fossil wood_, which she asserted to be _coral_, and
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827
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The rebel leader, Doku Umarov, has asserted responsibility and said it was in retaliation for what he called atrocities committed by the government's forces.
Arkansas Online stories
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His son-in-law Ali asserted that when the prophet was about to be inhumed, he was found in a situation not very common to the dead.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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I wonder whether the widely-presupposed centrality of snow in Inuit culture might be just as exaggerated as the widely-asserted numerousness of their snow words.
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In other developments on Wednesday, Defence Minister A. K Antony asserted that India had 'all available and possible options' open and asked Pakistan to book those who gave 'inspiration, direction and support' to the Mumbai attacks and to 'dismantle' the terror outfits functioning from its territory.
GroundReport: Captured Mumbai Terrorist Is Pakistani, Admits Government
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They do have a page where it’s asserted that creation doesn’t necesarily mean “fiat creation,” and that evolution and creation aren’t supposed to be antithetical, which is good.
Episcopal Church: Resolution A129 Affirm Creation and Evolution - The Panda's Thumb
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In comments to reporters on Thursday, McCain asserted that I can tell you that it is succeeding.
Balloon Juice » 2008 » May
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He argues that the Defendant pleaded her case purely on the basis of adverse possession, and did not challenge the legal title asserted by the Plaintiff.
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Pliny also asserted that the mathematician and astronomer Anaxagoras of Clazomenae had predicted the Aegospotami meteorite fall.
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This coinage has often provoked the accusation that nothing is really being asserted in the argument for natural selection: since fitness can only be defined by survival the phrase is a tautology.
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Dougal underwent another and very close examination, in which he steadfastly asserted the truth of what he had before affirmed; and being rebuked on account of the suspicious and dangerous appearance of the route by which he was guiding them, he answered with a sort of testiness that seemed very natural, “Her nainsell didna mak ta road; an shentlemans likit grand roads, she suld hae pided at Glasco.”
Rob Roy
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In pre-industrial societies philosophers generally asserted that a clear division of labour in political affairs was unavoidable and beneficial.
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If she had loved that first time, as she had asserted, as he had seen with his own eyes that she did, desperately, abandonedly, how had it been possible for her to change front so quickly, to turn to him and love anew?
Maurice Guest
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The all too visible wire that allows it to stand, if not to fly like Mary Martin, is, of course, theism, boldly asserted or watered down as deemed politic for various audiences.
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Leigh's skilful orchestration of character and narrative was confidently reasserted in his drama 'Grown-Ups'.
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Aristotle asserted the value of poetry by focusing on imitation rather than rhetoric.
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As his songwriting has reasserted itself on a series of pithy and cryptic recent albums the latest, save for a curious Christmas album, being 2009's "Together Through Life", Mr. Dylan has cast himself as an adventurous guitar-slinger and showman, with a voice that keeps getting grainier and ghostlier.
Having a Sonic Summer
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They descended, passing the man with the pail, who again asseverated that he had let no intruder pass, down to the commissionaire and the hovering chestnut man, who rigidly reasserted their own watchfulness.
The Complete Father Brown
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It would seem as though silence at a trial would best become gentlemen with such a record, yet they were the only experts who asserted that strychnia was the sole possible cause for the attack of the 24th of
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
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Lord Beaufort surprised them by a clever ambuscade from the stable wall; he told Mary he had been quite mistaken and wrong in what he had asserted, and he was sorry that she had overheard it.
The Semi-Attached Couple
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In this way the victim's worth can be reasserted.
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Several companies asserted that to conscript them after the expiration of their term of enlistment was a breach of faith.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
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Her friends asserted that she was innocent.
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It was the French chronologist, Scaliger, who in the sixteenth century asserted, "nulli melius piraticam exercent quam Angli"; and although he had no need to cross the Channel to find men proficient in this primitive calling, the remark applies to the England of his time with a force which we to-day scarcely realise.
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
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But he em - phatically asserted that the mythical mentality was transcended in the age of reason.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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And the Food and Drug Administration has asserted that it has the right to limiting tobacco advertising.
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McLeod also asserted that the board had "maligned" another complainant for leaking a confidential board report without sufficient evidence.
Geoffrey Dunn: A Culture of Corruption: The Ghost of Sarah Palin Still Haunts Alaska
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However, the concern of aboriginal peoples is precipitated by the asserted right of Quebec to unilateral secession.
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The Second Republic was progressively emasculated as the old monarchist élites reasserted control at central and local level.
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It asserted that epicurean delights come from God, as do the gifts of wisdom, knowledge, and joy.
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Openness to other cultures and the future gave way to inward-looking rivalry and mediocrity, as a closed tribal mentality reasserted itself.
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He revealed to the press that his son was mentally retarded and asserted that he was incapable of committing such a crime.
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Unless this could be done, he asserted, its occupation would be pointless.
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Joseph de Maistre, a Piedmontese noble who had been forced to flee to Switzerland before the French Revolutionary armies, asserted in 1797 that the Revolution was above all satanic and anti-religious.
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Since John Kerry's 2004 campaign, hawkish Democratic security and political consultants have asserted that Afghanistan is a good and necessary war in comparison with Iraq which they label a diversionary one.
Tom Hayden: Obama's Wars
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Strange thing, that when the army had asserted strength, governing the country, it grew weak as an army.
COUP D'ETAT
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It is commonly asserted that older people prefer to receive care from family members.
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At last, common sense had reasserted itself.
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From the Boston Globe:Mitt Romney acknowledged yesterday that he never saw his father march with Martin Luther King Jr. as he asserted in a nationally televised speech this month, and historical evidence shows that Michigan's Governor George Romney and the civil rights leader never did march together.
Romney lied during his "I'm a Christian too" speech, said he watched his father march with Martin Luther King - never happened
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In these documents the natural divine filiation of Jesus even as man is strongly asserted, and His adoptive filiation , at least in so far as it excludes the natural, is rejected as heretical.
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It is against this boorish cartel that 16 Yale students and recent alumni asserted themselves in a Title IX complaint brought against the institution last month—a complaint that could cost the university $500 million in federal funds.
Shutter Fraternities for Young Women's Good
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It can be asserted that the thought of Qin - Han Period is Yi - ology's intensification and extension.
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It is often asserted that by keeping wages low for apprentices, employers will automatically take more on.
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The poultry dealer asserted that although friend Lebigre hadn't the stuff of an orator in him, they might safely reckon on him when the "shindy" came.
The Fat and the Thin
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An April 2004 proposal by the Kenya Wildlife Service for the management of Africa's lion population asserted that current levels of hunting are unsustainable.
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I asserted that rats were disinclined to move across broken glass under most conditions, but put broken glass between a rat and her babies and she would cross it without hesitation.
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Brahman is satyasa/m/kalpa, and so on; for if not, the passages in which those qualities are asserted would become purportless (15).
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
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Prescription drug abuse, the administration asserted, is "America's fastest growing drug problem, driving significant increases in drug overdoses in recent years.
White House targets prescription drug abuse
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Presbyterian persuasion, he might find him less rancorously disposed against Miss Bellenden, and inclined to exert the power which he asserted himself to possess over her fortunes, more favourably than heretofore.
Old Mortality
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The male neighbors who posed as the henpecked husband and his domineering wife asserted their own masculinity by imitating and grossly exaggerating the actions of the misbehaving couple.
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A vast majority of people supported his government's policy, and ‘only a handful of exploiters are opposing a decision that has been taken in the best national and international interest’, he asserted.
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He thought about giving up his job, but then common sense reasserted itself.
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“The security situation in Iraq is truly a good one,” Keane asserted from the dais of the Willard Continental Hotel ballroom on June 11, a day after a car bomb ripped through a market, killing 30 people in Nasiriyah.
Guarding the Surge Narrative While Iraq Burns « Antiwar.com Blog
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(“Wait, you changed this phrase because the Muslims demanded it; why are you now discriminating against our assertedly similar objections?”)
The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » March
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The asserter is not the reality whose unity is asserted.
William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam and the Goal of Love
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Tschirley asserted that herbicide use would not significantly hasten the laterization of soil in Vietnam.
Operation Ranch Hand
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It might be supposed that a grocer was beyond the breath of calumny; but no — the neighbours stigmatised him as a chandler; and the poisonous voice of envy distinctly asserted that he dispensed tea and coffee by the quartern, retailed sugar by the ounce, cheese by the slice, tobacco by the screw, and butter by the pat.
Sketches by Boz
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Readers fed a steady diet of contemporary theology may not have the stomach to venture beyond this asserted conclusion to get caught up in the compelling argument she presents.
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Russian prince to that of a simple singer, a considerable drop; but the precentor was a musician, and he asserted that the voice was of the finest quality, and trained to perfection.
The Heavenly Twins
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It is commonly asserted that older people prefer to receive care from family members.
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The latter is a much more open question, not foreclosing the possibility of radical surprise but insisting that there should be evidential backing for what is being asserted.
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Traditional values have been reasserted.
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But the order of male succession was asserted by the friends of their country; the lawful heir drew the royal signet from the finger of his insensible or conscious father and the empire obeyed the master of the palace.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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It has been asserted, I believe, by various gorgio writers, that they have everything in common, and that there is a common stock out of which every one takes what he needs; this is quite a mistake, however.
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She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy.
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Though Hoover was a semisecret drinker, Smith enjoyed his liquor openly even if not to the degree asserted by the pro-Smith editor of the Nation, who said the governor enjoyed four to eight cocktails or highballs daily.
LAST CALL
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What would have happened if the Thai authorities had asserted their jurisdiction over the offence here?
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He assumes that what is not explicitly and consensually clear across what all acknowledge to be normative sources would be an innovation if asserted, and thus would constitute addition to or substraction from the deposit of faith.
Progressing to ecclesiological debate
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And it's a dam 'crawlin' business," asserted Pete.
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
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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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As a form of continence, however, if it can be called continence, it is asserted to bring none of the long course of evils which too often follow the practice of lifelong abstinence, or abstinence broken only when a child is desired.
Woman and the New Race
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The wounds that nearly claimed his life asserted their presence by a few sharp throbs as he moved.
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The result is a number of sweeping statements that are asserted but not demonstrated.
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It asserted, for example, that notice in a service or ‘clickwrap’ agreement - endless scrolls of tiny print no one reads - would constitute consumer permission.
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Adults while knowing better pretended clarity they lacked and asserted platitudes they disbelieved, hoping to spare their children the pain of unrealizable dreams.
James Block: From Occupy to Progressive Renewal: Demanding the Just Society
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Bombing, he asserted, was the way to avoid the unpleasant decision to send combat troops.
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What Searle is saying is, in effect, is that proponents of strong AI have ipso facto asserted that it is impossible – they affirmatively know and have confirmed it is not possible - for a mindless, unconscious entity to reproduce the behavior of an entity with consciousness.
Perils of pop philosophy
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Archbishop of Canterbury, is transformed, as if by irreverent enchantment of the dissenting interest, into A Favourite Terrier, or Cattle Grazing; and the most extraordinary work of art in the list described by the Bleater, is coolly sponged out altogether, and asserted never to have had existence at all, even in the most shadow thoughts of its executant!
Contributions to All the Year Round
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Iran has asserted the Persian claim.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mauclerc's practices were bad, Watin asserted; and it was on the basis of his inferior experience that he accepted the theories that he did.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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After personally attacking me for allegedly being "uncivil," Honig then asserted that the Congressman's "position is on all fours with the Open Internet policy endorsed by the labor unions, all the minority intergovernmental organizations and virtually every national civil rights organization except ColorofChange.
James Rucker: A Key, Unknown Player in Civil Rights Groups' Attack on the Open Internet
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He made a speech in which he condemned bourgeois liberalism and asserted the need for continuing class struggle.
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Asked if he knew whether the funds were disbursed legally, he said he did not know, but asserted that the disbursement of the funds could be accounted for.
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He asserted his ideas loudly and clearly.
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They asserted that deliberations had focused more on the interests of the elite than those of the general public.
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Note: Tertullian is here arguing against the Patripassians; those who asserted that the Father was born of the Virgin, died and was buried. —
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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She also disputes that the phone conversation was "minuted", as both Mirza and Johnson have consistently asserted.
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