How To Use Asserting In A Sentence
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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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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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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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Muhammed Ali westernizes Egypt, asserting some independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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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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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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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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We are, of all countries on the planet, the most apologetic about asserting our common values.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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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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Let us examine how actualist representationists handle apparent modal truths asserting the possibility of non-actual objects.
Possible Objects
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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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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.
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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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The only thing that has really changed is my confidence in asserting those opinions and not second-guessing myself.
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It seems that this was their means of asserting their continuing independence of Moscow.
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Fourth, are you asserting that this alleged problem in Lithuania is due to same-sex marriage?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
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This is the same moonbat excrement when liberals try to explain constitutionality, if you make the assertion that people are dieing you are also asserting the government is committing murder.
Phil Hare (D, IL-17) does not know the first Rule of Holes. | RedState
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What made it self-wounding, even nihilistic, was that Pakistan, by asserting a new Arabized Islamic identity, rejected its own local and regional culture.
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Are the parents asserting a religious belief or conviction?
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But in manifesto style, it is more about asserting a position and less about engaging with the other side's arguments.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Lieberman unappealingly then went on to castigate Obama via a demeaning rhetorical pat on the head by asserting that maybe in the future Obama would amount to something.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Moose Bull Party of St. Paul
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That is an example of paraleipsis, the rhetorical technique of pointing something out by asserting you will not point it out, often preceded by the phrase “not to mention.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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First it's blogger "sooey," asserting that middle-of-the-road blogger Marky Mark and the wretched anti-Semite "arthurdecco" are one and the same person -- and that they're probably both that other wretch, "shlemazl.
Archive 2009-05-01
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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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The landlord would be estopped from asserting his right to evict the tenant for late payment of rent.
Sui Generis--a New York law blog:
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Clearly, we need to invent new mechanisms and cultivate new resources for developing and asserting our individual moral authority.
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The prison officers, though clearly asserting their authority, treated the prisoners with respect.
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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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There was not even time for his book to be set before the reading public before the poet, poetry editor, and translator was asserting its imperishable grandeur.
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He said: 'We have to be careful about asserting the supremacy our cultural standards.
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Friends of the Earth responded by asserting that there was sufficient interest among energy suppliers to provide three times that amount.
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He said: 'We have to be careful about asserting the supremacy our cultural standards.
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I will reveal myself as being closer to modernism than to postmodernism by asserting that I believe there are some things that are true.
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The point of Hegel's critique is that there is more to the word ‘is’ than predication: the copula contains the implication that it identifies subject and predicate, rather than merely asserting that the predicate belongs to the subject.
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It does not overcome the paradoxes between asserting on one hand the functional analyses of law and affirming the integral conception of culture and unilinear evolutionism on the other hand.
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As a Tory backbencher in 1988, Nicholson was vice-chairman of a parliamentary committee that rejected the expansion of automatic incarceration, asserting that it doesn't work, overcrowds jails and takes too hefty of a social and financial toll.
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Their increasing need for independence may make kids want to defy their parents' wishes or instructions as a way of asserting their independence.
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Naturally disliked by the people, they were always asserting their dignity by testy impatient anger.
Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the four years of a Kerry administration, we can regather our forces and select someone less obvious and more competent to run against him in 2008, re-asserting true conservative dominance in the years to come.
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I have often found that triangle an irritant and tend to avoid this concerto, but here it gives a delicate and piquant touch to the orchestral sonority, instead of asserting itself as an obbligato second soloist.
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C'mon, just how pathetic is this unionist response to Scotland finally waking up and asserting herself?
Calman- "imaginative" and "bold"?
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Unfortunately, the Roman Church was at the same time asserting its rights and privileges with a new energy.
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He was asserting his right to enter the Temple that was not.
The Tribes Triumphant
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We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now let us take the other question, -- which may indeed be called a question as to the allowableness of resting confidently in truth already gained, without consenting to examine the claims of something asserting itself to be a new truth, yet which seems to interfere with the old.
The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps
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For what object of thought is one referring to when one is asserting the existence of men?
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Baius fell under censure for asserting (Props. 74, 75) that "concupiscence in the baptized is a sin, though not imputed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Naturally disliked by the people, they were always asserting their dignity by testy impatient anger.
Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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But their reasons for asserting copyright can be the subject of reasonable disagreement (example, colorized films).
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When Belinda questioned Marriott more particularly about the strange hints which her lady had let fall, she with looks of embarrassment and horror declined repeating the words that had been said to her; yet persisted in asserting that Lady Delacour had been very _strange_ for these two or three days.
Tales and Novels — Volume 03
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The conventional view, then as now, was that Lanfranc had carried all before him in asserting the rights of Canterbury.
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As a generalism asserting that women's passion is ten times greater than man's (Pilgrimage, ii. 282), it is unfact.
Arabian nights. English
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But, by asserting the Scripture to be the canon of oar faith, I have unavoidably created to myself two sorts of enemies: the Papists indeed, more directly, because they have kept the Scriptures from us what they could; and have reserved to themselves a right of interpreting what they have delivered under the pretence of infallibility: and the Fanatics more collaterally, because they have assumed what amounts to an infallibility, in the private spirit; and have detorted those texts of
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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A wielding of language that speaks as a means to recapture and reanimate male power, it suggests a masculinity reasserting itself at the expense of women.
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The hon. Gentleman has no evidence for asserting that standards have dropped month by month.
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Stanford and the two ex-executives were not testifying, asserting their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
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I therefore interpretted the rest of your post as asserting that the reasoning described was the motivation of “People who raise the subject”, hence my repeated reference to Antifeminists and MRAs who represent the dominant discoursive framework of those people.
False Allegation Worse Than Rape?
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But either Mistress Jean's influx of caution came too late, and someone had overheard her suggestion, or the idea was already abroad in the mind bucolic and georgic, for that very night it began to be reported upon the nearer farms, that the Mains of Glashruach was haunted by a brownie who did all the work for both men and maids -- a circumstance productive of different opinions with regard to the desirableness of a situation there, some asserting they would not fee to it for any amount of wages, and others averring they could desire nothing better than a place where the work was all done for them.
Sir Gibbie
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As a shy person, did you have problems asserting yourself in the group?
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Hence, magic became part of a growing "underworld" of unorthodox practices, such as necromancy, witchcraft, and heresy -- all forms of deviance from a norm now asserting itself in greater clarity than ever before.
What Is Magic?
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Indeed, as is demonstrated below, Caplan has been known to wrap his own preferences up and misidentify them as being "rational" while asserting that those he disagrees with have "irrational" preferences.
Doubt the Vote, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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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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It is unfair, unreasonable and ill-mannered to demean someone who has dedicated much of her career to NASA; you display remarkable ignorance in dismissively asserting that Lori Garver is a "political opportunist".
It's Time To Go, Mike - NASA Watch
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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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Growing up black involves asserting an individual identity, and an ethnic identity.
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While not asserting that the Galatians are "vainglorious" now, he says they are liable to become so. provoking one another -- an effect of "vaingloriousness" on the stronger: as "envying" is its effect on the weaker.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Reason reasserting itself, he has given up the idea of disembodied spirits, convinced that the two figures coming forward are real flesh and blood; the same whose blood he assisted in spilling, and whose flesh he lately believed to be decaying in the obscurity of a cave.
The Lone Ranche
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It was his way of asserting his identity in London, a city of considerable cultural and racial diversity.
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He clarifies what he means by asserting that in the New Testament the word ‘flesh’ refers simply to our physical fleshly body, and not our sinful nature.
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We are asserting a legal claim in the name of people who were individually and collectively unjustly deprived of their assets.
Times, Sunday Times
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From Karelia on the Finnish border to Sakha in Eastern Siberia, leaders of autonomous republics began demanding new cultural and political rights, adopting their own constitutions, anthems, and flags, asserting the superiority of their laws over federal ones, even declaring themselves sovereign states.
The Return
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He was asserting his right to enter the Temple that was not.
The Tribes Triumphant
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In response to Wilkinson’s (I thought unexceptionable) assertion that people value things other than — and often more highly than — happiness, DeLong objected, not just that Will had said something substantively wrong, but made some kind of semantic error, asserting a tautological falsehood (what we used to call a “falsism” in debate):
Better Brad DeLong Dissatisfied than a Pig Satisfied
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The writer was asserting her land rights.
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And, like Rushdie, Kureishi is also asserting the parity of sacred and secular forms of storytelling.
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The first wave of feminism demanded that women seek equal rights by asserting themselves in the workforce.
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And you, if in asserting your constitutional right to be free from unlawful search and seizure fail to do as the officer asks, run the risk of having such holes placed in your own
Release the Crowley/Gates tapes. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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He may have been safe enough in asserting that Lars Porsena of Clusium swore by the nine gods that the great house of Tarquin should suffer wrong no more.
David McKie is like this is a better way of writing reported speech
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No, but the appellants are not asserting an exclusive right to make decisions with respect to the land, even in their notice of appeal.
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I hope they realize that simply asserting authority doesn't necessarily make us any safer.
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Frances Willard herself had adopted the imagery, asserting that the grogshop is the Negro’s center of power.
LAST CALL
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Trekboere changed the physical and legal landscape of the Olifants River Valley indelibly by asserting permanent, alienable, and bounded claims to land, and by appropriating commonly used territory from Khoikhoi and San, eliciting violent retribution.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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Upon the reperusal of this book I found the bishop only asserting his opinion that tar-water might be useful in the dropsy, since he had known it to have a surprising success in the cure of a most stubborn anasarca, which is indeed no other than, as the word implies, the dropsy of the flesh; and this was, at that time, a large part of my complaint.
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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With its frontal perspective, the monumental wave confronts the viewer dead-on, boldly asserting its pure, natural energy.
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He is often misremembered as asserting that real interest is independent of inflation and monetary shocks.
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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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But in manifesto style, it is more about asserting a position and less about engaging with the other side's arguments.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But in manifesto style, it is more about asserting a position and less about engaging with the other side's arguments.
The Times Literary Supplement
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All the counsels of Mrs. Arlbery upon this subject occurred to her; and imagining she had hitherto erred from a simple facility, she rejoiced in the accident which had pointed her to a safer path, and shewn her that, in the present disordered state of the opinions of Edgar, the only way to a lasting accommodation was to alarm his security, by asserting her own independence.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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The moral rights law requires that the authors who wish to invoke the right to withdraw indemnify their transferees prior to asserting the right.
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He takes them on a fishing trip to a remote island, cruelly asserting his authority en route.
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In many cases, they're arguing that a cultural trend is becoming true, or is about to become true, and the reality is that asserting that these trends are ascendent actually helps them come true.
Anil Dash
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Though he does not succeed in the delineation of the great and grand passions of our nature, he is very successful in the sphere of its humane and tender sentiments; and though open to criticism for the jaunty audacity with which he coins dainty sweetnesses of expression rejected by all dictionaries, and for an occasional pertness in asserting opinions of doubtful truth, he is so lovable a creature that we pardon his literary foibles as we would pardon the personal foibles of a charming companion and friend.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
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Confronted with poll data that ruined their whole thesis, Asman and Coulter simply continued asserting that the anti-war crazies were dragging down the Dems, as if nothing had happened. print share
Happy Hour Roundup
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But asserting that loss of individuality within marriage is still primarily a female problem is a point that seems much harder to argue in a world where roles are shifting all the time.
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Two decades before he ever jostled with Du Bois, he was asserting that of course ‘there should be no unmanly cowering or stooping to satisfy unreasonable whims of the Southern white man.’
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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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Critics will no doubt mock the idea, asserting perhaps that it is a sign of weakness or even desperation.
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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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In other words, under cover of conducting "counterterrorist" border searches, dodgy outfits such as the CIA, FBI, and the NSA are now asserting a "right" to have access to data seized from travelers 'cell phone directories, laptops, financial data or confidential business records stored in CBP databases "available" for their perusal.
Information Liberation
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Newton had been inveigled into publishing his explanation of the rainbow, asserting that the colours of the rainbow are generated from white light (as from the Sun) merely because they are ‘differently refrangible’.
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Indian Women: Asserting Their Rights The elegant Indian scarf known as a "dupatta" is also an effective weapon to combat the unwanted attentions of men. ...
Naughty Online
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He's just given quite a long statement but is basically reasserting his innocence.
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Thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters took to Oakland's streets as part of a day-long series of events, called a citywide strike, aimed at asserting the movement's strength and shutting down commerce.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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But their reasons for asserting copyright can be the subject of reasonable disagreement (example, colorized films).
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And I must say the name-calling and finger-pointing and blame asserting is not constructive.
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He also remarked, more significantly from an aesthetic point of view, “A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.”
Matthew Alderman in Dappled Things
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Naturally disliked by the people, they were always asserting their dignity by testy impatient anger.
Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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She suggests that she is receiving the lock from the head of her poet/lover with all the gusto that one would experience upon receiving whole loads of cargoes from ships; the speaker exaggerates the value of that lock by asserting that it "outweighs argosies.
Great Regulars: She applies the commercial metaphor
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The Jews joined in the accusation , asserting that these things were true.
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Scott is correct in asserting that "a lot of trial and error is involved in the writing of most novels," and for that very reason "trial and error" is not really very helpful in capturing what literary critics/scholars have meant by using "experimental fiction" in describing selected works of fiction, especially fiction written since 1945, "experimental.
Experimental Fiction
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It starts out in the first chapter of incorrectly asserting that woman came from man (the Y chromosome is actually evolved from the X – which is proved in the fact that all life starts out female).
Think Progress » Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’
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In the decade since then, the possibility of the courts asserting themselves against parliament in an appropriate case has been significantly strengthened.
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Mullen repeated the timeworn invocation that Beijing and Washington should work together on "broader, and common, goals" on the global stage, after asserting that China was now a world power.
The Trust Gap in U.S.-China Relations
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In other words, one sentence after asserting that Boswell had ‘not taken a cent of public money,’ she observes that he lived daily on public money.
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What a prospect for her, then, with our present race of young men! their frivolous fickleness nauseates whatever they can reach; they have a weak shame of asserting, or even listening to what is right, and a shallow pride in professing what is wrong.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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The last time Canada had a genuine constitutional crisis, the King-Byng affair, it ended in pretty much disaster, in the Prime Minister illegitimately asserting non-existent powers over the governor-general who was supposed to be in the reserve, supreme and unimpeachable.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Left in Crisis?
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Lyman focuses on the term humane meat, asking if killing can be humane and asserting that the only reason we eat meat is because we have an addiction to fat.
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For example, militant nativist Euro-Americans, who first arose in the late 1730s, believed in polygenesis, asserting that the Master of Life engineered separate creations of Europeans, Africans, and Indians and placed them on different continents.
Between War and Peace
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She abstracted herself from her inconvenient desire; she set herself at a distance from it and inspected it, as if it were a fungus of the spirit, asserting itself without permission.
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As a matter of fact, I sympathise with their desire to produce design that refers to itself and to its context as a way of asserting the materiality of the medium.
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Clergy and laity had to be interdependent, but by the early 19th cent. both groups were asserting their rights and dignities.
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But even Dobbin grated on me, following Amelia around like a puppy, neither asserting himself in regards to her nor breaking off his attachment.
All is Vanity « So Many Books
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These explanations proceed by asserting that the most complex nonliving molecules will reproduce more efficiently than less complex nonliving molecules.
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When I said that I thought he was right, they agreed in asserting that he did wrong because he threw his life away, and that no man had a right to undertake anything which he knew would cost him his life.
Commonplace
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In asserting that the problem of demarcation between science and nonscience is a pseudo-problem (at least as far as philosophy is concerned), I am manifestly not denying that there are crucial epistemic and methodological questions to be raised about knowledge claims, whether we classify them as scientific or not.p. 221. and
Demarcation, Credentials, and Science Education
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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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Re: This horrible thing that you keep asserting is being imposed on the black community amounts to allowing black women to decide for themselves how and when to have children
Matthew Yglesias » Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery
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Apart from asserting that dwarfs are usually unintelligent, the author offers no comment on the morphological differences between human physical types.
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He concluded by asserting emphatically that if it had not been for his foresight in providing himself with field-glasses, the steer would have been running over the flat with Aunt Lizzie empaled on its horns like a naturalist's butterfly, before any one could have prevented it.
The Dude Wrangler
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This comports with Douglas's observation that humor is sometimes used to counter the heaviness of death and tragedy by asserting the demands of the living.
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As the protest movement waned, the military deliberately fomented communal conflict as a means of reasserting its authority.
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Rather than asserting America's moral right to dominate, Obama has spent much of his term renewing American partnerships with countries like
The New Yorker
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The writer was asserting her land rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are fearful of asserting themselves on the world stage without the approval of the United Nations.
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If the IMF is robust, this might prove a useful mechanism for asserting accountability.
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For what object of thought is one referring to when one is asserting the existence of men?
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It is an indictment of the hubris of our politically correct age that a film asserting this perdurable truth about mankind's affairs will strike many as offensive.
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Growing up black involves asserting an individual identity, and an ethnic identity.
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Of particular concern to Blankley is the speed at which Islam is asserting itself throughout Europe; a process exacerbated over the last few decades by liberal immigration policies, falling birthrates across the Continent, a decline in the willingness of Muslims to assimilate, and an adherence to the diktat of tolerance among Western elites that has prevented any meaningful discussion of the issue.
Think Progress » Rice: After 9-11 “We Could Decide the Proximate Cause Was Al Qaedaâ€
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The recent argument I came across was to cite time as the premise of the argument, followed by asserting it must have a starting point, ergo, someone or something must have started it.
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However, many of the certificates are merely reasserting permission of those already certificated.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also lamented the existence of attitudes asserting inferiority toward anything from the West within the art world.
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-- _Join to each of the nouns below three appropriate adjectives expressing the qualities as assumed, and then make complete sentences by asserting these qualities_: --
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
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Others (pardon me in tracing the institutions of learning and asserting that they were called phantasm, prejudice and blasphemy) have been heralding their pitifully and destructively ignorant doctrine, that the 'Africans spring of the monkey species;' that 'they became black from Ham, who had a curse from his father, Noah.'
Once a Methodist; Now a Baptist. Why?
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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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We're asserting our youth and funkiness by coming here, because we had plenty of fuddy-duddy pubs to choose from.
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New regulations taking effect in North America over the coming years will attempt to curb such emissions, though major cruise lines are asserting that rates are likely to rise due to the cost of more expensive low-sulphur fuels.
New tool helps rank greenest cruise ships
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This horrible thing that you keep asserting is being imposed on the black community amounts to allowing black women to decide for themselves how and when to have children.
Matthew Yglesias » Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery
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But a nobler employment among free people, with a chance of asserting your courage and manhood, and a certainty that no man will think you his bondslave because you were born upon his land, or in his house.
Springhaven
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As big, tall people, we gave no thought to asserting ourselves.
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HOLDING: (Opinion by Landau, P.J.) – A public employee who prevails on a lawsuit by asserting that the claim did not arise during the course of employment is judicially estopped from initiating an action against the employer for indemnity of legal expenses by asserting a position inconsistent with that asserted during the original claim.
One less bell to answer (Jack Bog's Blog)
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+May write, can write, must write, might write, could write, would write+, and +should write+ may each be resolved into an asserting word and an infinitive.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
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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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Prefix to the following nouns several adjectives expressing qualities, and then make complete sentences by _asserting_ the same qualities. white | Chalk _is white_.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room
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With some anxieties removed, her natural courage is reasserting itself, and as a result her memory is improving day by day.
STAGE FRIGHT
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With the reason of the apostle's exhibiting and asserting this summary of sacred faith, and this breviate of evidence attending it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The Iranian government asserts absolute control: by taking on the intellectual and political elite sympathetic to the opposition; by asserting control over key ministries; and shoring up the alliances of its myriad armed forces including the Revolutionary Guard, the Army, the Police and the feared baseej militia.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup
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The 3 drivers battled back and forth most all of the race in what turned out to be the best racing because Skeeter was steadily pulling away and asserting himself from the rest of the pack.
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A number of philosophers [24] have found very plausible the idea that, in asserting that p, one represents oneself as knowing that p. Here, very quickly, is one route to this idea: If our talk is governed by ˜the Cooperative Principle™ (CP), then ˜saying™ itself presumes one's striving to fulfill certain credal-epistemic conditions: chief among the Gricean maxims is that of Quality,
Epistemic Contextualism
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I characterise the means as being preventing or inhibiting persons from asserting legal rights.
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In asserting this, the Reformation unfurls the banner of Free Spirit and proclaims as its essential principle: Man is in his very nature destined to be free.
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It seems that this was their means of asserting their continuing independence of Moscow.
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You beg the question by merely reasserting that God's existence is indemonstrable.
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
Build Blog » Quotes on Design
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I am not being even slightly hyperbolical or indulging in tongue in cheek rhetoric when asserting that the Democrats must pray for a national disaster.
Come Back July 20, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Obama is declaring his intention to turn these negative trends around - and without simply, vapidly asserting that America is powerful and capable of great feats, he is admitting that it will take tough work, prioritization, and creativity.
Steve Clemons: Obama's West Point Speech Shows Signs of Smart "National Security Strategy"
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He affiliates himself with this faux-moorish identity, asserting a parallel to the American colonization of Mexico and of Mexicans.
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“With the balls of his father,” Fergie said ultimately, reasserting himself with a kinglike nod.
The Town
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So then Thomas evaded the morality issue by asserting that the homunculus has only a sensitive rather than a rational soul, and therefore can be classified as subhuman and fit for research purposes.
Us and Stem - Only The Daily Show Can Help Us Now
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Hebrew order is broken up by the interspersion of the additional literature among the other books, outside the law, thus asserting for the extra writings a substantial equality of rank and privilege.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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In apprehending and responding to contemporaneity, Shahryar emerges as a poet who sharpens the contours of modernism by asserting the establishment of new poetics.
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He was asserting his right to enter the Temple that was not.
The Tribes Triumphant
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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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Our novelist's intellectual humour is asserting itself beneath the narrative.
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The division chaplain concurred, asserting that the policy was flawed from both a practical and a moral standpoint.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
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After centuries of neglect, scorn and discouragement, hundreds of women are asserting their right to be conductors and composers as well as instrumentalists and singers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The writer was asserting her land rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite anti-war claims that America is remoulding the world in its own image, US leaders seem uncomfortable with asserting their power on the world stage, or with launching a war in the name of any domestic American interest.
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I was hypothesizing the process Andrew was asserting is going to take place.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would “Deem & Pass” Survive Judicial Review?
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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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Bhubaneswar, Nov 02: Asserting that the Orissa and central governments had "failed miserably" to protect Christians from the violence unleashed by Hindu rightwing groups, five top bishops in the state said they were "agonised" by the belated response for help.
Zee News : India National
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In the greeting, Paul establishes his credentials by asserting the divine basis of his apostleship.
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Instead of asserting American Exceptionalism, instead of boldly standing for freedom and self-rule, this administration has cozied up to dictators around the world.
Ken Blackwell: The Iron Lady vs. the Tin Woman
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The republics began asserting their right to govern themselves.
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Now others are asserting their constitutional rights.
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With respect to the settlement of disputes between two criminal entities, RICO is simply the state asserting it's monopoly over force against those who would circumvent it.
A Theory of Government, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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A small reception building with offices, reception and a room for tasting adjoins the bottling plant, reasserting a sense of human scale after the magnitude of the industrial spaces.
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According to Saumade, so smitten with the sport he's written a book on it, Spanish tauromachy reflects its aristocratic inventors, man asserting superiority over the untamed ‘savage’.
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But Great Groups require a more flexible kind of leadership that has more to do with facilitating than with asserting control.
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The diseased body stages a revolt against those functions that biographers record, reasserting the animal in pain, so similar in the end to other animals in pain.
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They concluded with a communique asserting a collective determination to resist aggression.
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It need scarcely be added that the young men were overjoyed on receiving this almost unhoped-for intelligence, and that Harry expressed his satisfaction in his usual hilarious manner, asserting, somewhat profanely, in the excess of his glee, that the governor-in - chief of Rupert's Land was a "regular brick.
The Young Fur Traders
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The oftener -- the more we read the "Winter" -- especially the last two or three hundred lines -- the angrier is our wonder with Wordsworth for asserting that Thomson owed the national popularity that his "Winter" immediately won, to his "commonplace sentimentalities, and his vicious style!
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
