The government's assertion that torture and summary executions might be carried out without recourse to the law clearly shocked the court. |
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The parenthetic principle functions as appositional, alongside, but also foundational, rendering a more emphatic assertion unnecessary. |
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It makes this assertion in support of its argument that a longer sublease would have been easier to market than a shorter sublease. |
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This is a passionate essay, but one that tends to substitute assertion for argumentation and engagement. |
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Yet a vague assent to a vague assertion only yields twice as much vagueness. |
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A telltale sign of this trick is the rule, established by the assertor, that one may not reject any portion of the assertion. |
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In practice, there are many venture capitalists who will protest the assertion that all they want is to make a quick buck. |
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That can be the only basis for the assertion that the safety issue is a myth. |
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For once the assertion that this is television that will ask questions seems very likely to be true. |
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The working class at home is beginning to be starved, and is being buoyed up with the assertion that this is the last great war. |
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As for her assertion that our community leaders are working towards cohesion, I should think they are! |
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Each time he gets a black cube it confirms the assertion that all six cubes are black. |
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For the record, in case anyone is thinking it, the assertion that women are worse at maths is also utter rubbish. |
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This is the polite version of the assertion that there is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not said it. |
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This has lead to the assertion that a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan may affect the weather in Europe within a week or two. |
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If not, doesn't this simply verify the assertion that such orders are a joke in this Internet age? |
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It is usually regarded as an assertion that we are all the same under the skin. |
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There may be room for the assertion that the bailiff was not tactful and that his firmness and size intimidated those in that room. |
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Free will, as I understand it, is the assertion that a person is the cause of their own actions. |
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This disproves the assertion that tyranny is impossible to impose on an armed population. |
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Imposing such a ban requires far more compelling logic than the assertion that we should not play God. |
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He is criticizing the assertion that to weigh more than that is to be obese. |
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Moreover, the assertion that moral agency confers special moral status is itself quite debatable. |
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It is this assertion which will be tested in a referendum vote, probably next March. |
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I showed that none of the archival references in her footnotes supported this assertion. |
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The falsity of this assertion would have been found if it had been checked. |
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If one rejects that assertion, does the imperialism of human rights really sound so bad? |
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Many would no doubt take issue with me on that simple assertion, citing personal reasons why it is not so. |
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Nor has any evidence been made public as of this writing to justify the prime minister's assertion. |
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Anyone who disagrees with this assertion should of course be ready for my temper tantrum. |
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Almost every assertion is backed by a sackful of evidence, statistics or relevant quotations. |
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The amount of water used to put out the twelve minute bonfire proves this assertion. |
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Experiments conducted in the field and the lab are a major basis for this assertion. |
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While this assertion appears disarmingly simple, it is profound in its implications. |
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No documentation was produced to verify that assertion, nor was her son called as a witness at trial. |
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Any objective scrutiny of the list of banned organisations makes a mockery of this last assertion. |
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The events since the last two elections support this assertion, a point to which I will return. |
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At the function that I attended, too, a number of articles spoke of this assertion on their past. |
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A rescue operation in May this year brutally revealed the truth of this assertion. |
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That was a novel and quite astounding assertion at that stage of human legal development. |
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The critical question, in relation to the appeal, is whether this assertion is correct. |
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Typical of a Soderbergh movie is the assertion that most low-lifers are comedians at heart. |
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That nod in itself contradicts his assertion that my historical account lacks authorial analysis. |
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Most of all, the assertion of the Anglo-Iberian alliance is designed as a counterweight to the Franco-German axis. |
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He's already been forced to backtrack on the assertion that he made that three Republican lawyers supported the pardon. |
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The assertion that the noise of the parachutes opening can be terrifying puzzles me somewhat. |
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Tony Abbott certainly believes if you repeat it often enough a baseless assertion becomes fact. |
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There was what we may call toing and froing about that, but we disagree with that assertion from the Bar table. |
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Its similarity with toreutic works on the banks of the hill reminds us of Strabo's assertion touching the likeness of Egyptian and Tuscan art. |
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Kant's assertion that transcendental idealism entails empirical realism is difficult to interpret. |
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He must think we all came down in the last shower if he expects anyone to believe that assertion. |
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Amid the usual blah-blah of political rhetoric, I found this assertion really offensive. |
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As for the assertion that only fans and the club would benefit from the redevelopment, this seems a slightly blinkered approach. |
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They will often be bossy with carers and show levels of assertion that most children generally do not. |
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Many of the arguments have a wearily familiar ring, not least Huxley's assertion of the umbilical connection between religion and bloodshed. |
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However, that it is now a constitutional document of some sort is an unchallengeable assertion within the New Zealand context. |
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A careening assertion of mastery and virtuosity, the Goldberg Variations were for many years thought unplayably difficult. |
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On the other hand, the statement that the security services have not breached international law is no more than an untestable assertion. |
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This is all aided and abetted by the amazing assertion that hard work of necessity brings rewards. |
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Despite this assertion I do not believe the spirant pronunciation is obvious at all. |
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That assertion represents the goal for all three men to perform on a larger political stage. |
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The offended students said the flier had disrupted a meeting, an assertion that became the basis of disciplinary action. |
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They continue to make the assertion that contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs are part of healthcare. |
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This is what is driving the ever-more vigorous assertion of the Catalan language as a unifying regional factor. |
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Mr Brindle submitted that mere assertion by an expert of the existence of particular standards is not enough. |
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Clearly, this senior level review charged to protect the public interest fully weighed all the issues, separating fact from assertion. |
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At times of heightened threat perception, the assertion of values mounts and subsumes careful calculation of interests. |
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First, it is often mistakenly thought to be part of the Hippocratic oath, an assertion that I see made regularly in the lay press. |
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Ironically, however, earlier this summer another assertion of Christocentric dominance received a very different reception from this country. |
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But, of course, he offered no proof for this assertion, and is not known to be able to parse Arabic verbs. |
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By quoting a different reference, Russell is wrong in stating that our core assertion is incorrect. |
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This back-stabbing confirms and supports Naki's assertion that there are divisions and infighting within the organisation. |
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The assertion that these claims have been shown to be grossly inflated is a little premature in my opinion. |
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There is no evidence to support the assertion that he was an important and influential teacher. |
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There is growing scientific evidence to support the assertion that the ingestion of food and the ingestion of knowledge have much in common. |
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Mother did not sustain any serious injury and the assertion of mild concussion is over-stated. |
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This contrasts with a stronger assertion of identity and values among conservative church bodies. |
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And the movie accepts his assertion that he knew nothing of the illegal diversion of funds to the contras fighting in Nicaragua. |
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The entry in question, therefore, is not evidence which contradicts his assertion, and the Crown does not suggest otherwise. |
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This contradicts the council's assertion that just 19 Swindon women had used the unit in the past two years. |
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This directly contradicts Robinson's assertion that policing costs would decline after such a move. |
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The European Union has added its weight to the dispute echoing the UK's assertion that the action contravened international law. |
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This assertion raises the question of whether institutions in different locales will converge or diverge over time. |
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To start with this is an unproven assertion based all too obviously on a cosy view of a mythical working class family from the Fifties. |
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A belief or a conviction, no matter how crackbrained, is not an assertion subject to editorial or legal correction. |
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I certainly stand by my assertion that the country was not founded on a principle of progressive taxation. |
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In addition, the assertion that the documents might have been fabricated is without foundation and the argument is somewhat fanciful. |
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His defense was crucially based on his assertion that he was completely unaware that Egypt had cultural patrimony laws of any kind. |
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One of the most striking features of Cyrenaic ethics is their assertion that it is pleasure, and not happiness, which is the highest good. |
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But beyond the assertion of sovereign prerogative, there was also a thinly veiled message of contempt. |
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Russell, on the other hand, makes no distinction between assertion and presupposition. |
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I suspect that further analysis of the role of animals will support my assertion that the works also represent remarkably similar demonologies. |
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What Westerners construed as effeminate is in fact virile, an assertion of perfected control and independence. |
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The period was marked both by the systematic elaboration and assertion of dynastic claims. |
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My assertion is by no means groundless if we take into account our 1.3 billion population and per capita arable land. |
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If the assertion of these rights in a secular democratic framework is discouraged or suppressed, then clearly something is wrong. |
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This assertion is certainly legally disputable at the very least, and Burnside should know it. |
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Whether this assertion is warranted and what exactly it amounts to is quite another question. |
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But Smith repeats the unfair assertion, first made by Mulroney's errand boy, that the blame for its defeat falls squarely on other shoulders. |
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This assertion might sound brutally dogmatic, but its economic basis is exceptionally solid. |
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However, a healthy body of evidence would appear to contradict my assertion. |
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The Schadenfreude is indecent, but the confident historical assertion is still less justified. |
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It was an assertion of Aboriginality more convincing, and proudly joyful, than any activist manifesto or protest could ever be. |
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It's easy shuttling between a style of largely absurdist speculation and sudden pockets of very serious assertion. |
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Put another way, it is the content of his affidavit or statement which determines the assertion. |
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Finally, the assertion that everything happens by necessity seems to leave the whole of morality in doubt. |
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The good sister is far from sure about the merits of his assertion but she agrees to support his appeal for a pardon. |
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I suspect his assertion, memorable though it is, was based on wishful thinking. |
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I'd like to see exactly how that assertion can be reconciled with the original statement. |
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I think is a trivial assertion and it certainly not anything you should adjust your science to, to make allowance for. |
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Well, do you think an invasion of a country should be based on allusion and assertion? |
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I'm making the really clear case that I know the difference between evidence and what is allusion and assertion and the rest. |
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Hence the assertion of a causal relation between physical and mental events is inherently paradoxical, perhaps even incoherent. |
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But even this latter assertion is somewhat uncertain and ambiguous for several reasons. |
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We know nothing of course, but we do not remotely know even this, and mere assertion in no way ameliorates our destitution. |
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The slander cases in the years between 1870 and 1890 bear out this assertion. |
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However, given the extent of the 1902-10 repaint, and the one carried out between 1910 and 1932, his assertion seems entirely believable. |
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This amounts, of course, to an assertion that we can easily put aside economic law. |
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Their stupid opinion is just as valid as the millions of people who laugh this assertion to scorn. |
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His assertion that tautologies were the only secure predictions anticipates similar views of social scientists in recent decades. |
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Their libertarianism was more aesthetic than political, an assertion of personal autonomy against repressive philistinism. |
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In fact, the conclusion of our study is at variance with their assertion. |
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First they tried to buffalo voters with the odd assertion that North Dakota banks don't sell their customers' information, so there's no need to worry. |
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It started with the blunt assertion that things were worse than most of the public realized. |
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This photo may undercut her assertion that she was cut out of the loop. |
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When a member asks a question with an assertion contained within it, it is perfectly open to the Minister to answer the question by disputing the assertion. |
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But Joe's assertions of fact about what happened four years ago were qualified by his similar assertion that he has a very bad recollection of what happened four years ago. |
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Conard relies almost entirely on assertion and citation to support this point. |
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This again is not a factual assertion, rather a warning for the future. |
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But that preposterous assertion is contradicted by much evidence. |
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Cutting across these lines, there is the question of how to interpret the assertion, proffered by the Rebbe himself, that a rebbe is the Essence and Being of God. |
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No story describing a problem or social phenomenon was complete without a few meaningless statistics passed off as hard fact or proof of some assertion. |
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There have been no protests about people who feel their right to debate a contentious assertion in the NDT has been quashed by over-zealous topic starters. |
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However, there are no data to support this assertion and neither is there information about other obstetric interventions associated with medical insurance status. |
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But everything up to the last assertion is a matter of record. |
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The Social Exclusion Unit's report gave no supporting evidence for the assertion that some urban areas of the United Kingdom had become food deserts. |
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I do not accept the assertion that we are disempowering parents. |
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The ludicrousness of this assertion gives new life to the old line about some things being so preposterous it takes an educated person to believe them. |
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The dissolution of the feudal estates by the Revolution produced a purely atomistic society, characterized by the assertion of individual property right. |
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Pearl's self-starvation references young women through the ages who rejected food as their only method of assertion and who were regarded as saintlike in their martyrdom. |
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The assertion of Europe as a secular entity by the end of the seventeenth century helped to reduce the importance of serious schisms in Christendom. |
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But this assertion too would deserve some criticism, since some Arab countries are presented by western governments and media as conciliating both. |
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Such a lopsided assertion that you shouldn't rest players can be contradicted by considering any of the many times United rested players and still won. |
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But Ncita laughed off the Tanzanian's assertion saying his charge was the best fighter from the junior bantamweight to the junior featherweight divisions. |
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Although rhynchosaurs are not usually abundant in these strata, their presence refutes Romer's assertion that rhynchosaurs indicate a Middle Triassic age. |
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The fanciful assertion that nation states lessen it is unlikely to convince a Russian or Chinese dissident, or Tibetan. |
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He has thoroughly debunked the widespread assertion that population is outrunning the world's capacity to feed it, either in aggregate or in specific regions. |
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Maybe it has, but I doubt it, and I'm disinclined to prove that assertion. |
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This claim is made not on an historical basis but on a theological one with the assertion of God's fatherhood and anointing for the messianic ruler of God's people. |
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One might question, though, his assumptions concerning proxenia and their impact on his assertion that most traders were xenoi rather than metics. |
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This assertion denies the history of Buddhist entry into Japan, in which Shinto gods were honored as bodhisattvas and Taoist and Confucian values were prized. |
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Edmund Burke, on the other hand, christened modern Toryism with his assertion that society was based on a set of values and principals which should not be eroded. |
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Despite the necessary assertion that Gragg was skilled at bentwood construction, the Windsor chairs now attributed to him do not themselves fully support that assertion. |
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I politely disagree with the assertion that it was didactic and lengthy. |
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Vieira delivers this so-strident assertion with so mild a voice. |
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Dewey's instrumentalism was both a theory and a method of inquiry for solving problems and for generating truth, or what he called warranted assertion. |
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In this case, where Chomsky makes an extreme assertion without troubling to give a source at all, it requires examining a large amount of material to come to a conclusion. |
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A simple assertion, plain as day, coming from someone who ought to know. |
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Communal politics and sectarianism depends on the creation of religious hatreds and divides, the assertion and invocation of continual self-pity and victim hood. |
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And in a sea of mass production and cookie-cutter sequels, handmade films are an assertion of the importance of the small, the unique and the individual. |
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There is nothing wrong with a humanitarian intent, but one must always be sceptical of particularistic motives hiding behind the assertion of a universalist ethic. |
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Whether a departed angel or a current harpy, however, she must give place to the assertion of patriarchal hierarchies, patrilineal descent, and male-dominated marriage. |
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Whether this assertion is accurate is of course a different matter. |
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This whacko assertion has yet to be seriously refuted by establishment archaeologists. |
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I will claim that past tense in the case of the experiential imperfective actually behaves like a perfect, i.e. the assertion time is located after the event time. |
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The murals became a highly visible assertion of Ndebele identity. |
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The UK's international alliances could be damaged by the incautious assertion of arguments under international law which affect the position of those other states. |
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An implicit corollary to this assertion is the idea that nations judge their rivals primarily according to their interests rather than their ideals. |
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Whether or not you accept Robert Frost's assertion that poetry is that part of language which is untranslatable, the point is that this is surely counter-productive. |
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The wealthiest Republican Party boosters will resent the assertion that peer pressure and ego motivate their giving. |
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Then there's the assertion that you should count stock and pension benefits. |
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That assertion, given by Shore in a pre-trial deposition, would have been too prejudicial to present to the jury, the court ruled. |
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Initially, some media outlets reported the police's assertion that the bombs were simply smoke grenades. |
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It was an assertion of a Jacksonian and old republican culture representing a folk tradition of honour. |
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Keats's mortalia is at once unconsoling and unconsolable, an assertion of the voice of life amidst the undermusic of death. |
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Kagan argues that Britain was irritated in particular by Napoleon's assertion of control over Switzerland. |
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The most breathtakingly ignorant assertion of this sort has been the claim that a false memory syndrome is operating here. |
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The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. |
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Kagan argues that Britain was especially alarmed by Napoleon's assertion of control over Switzerland. |
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They are correct in this assertion, but fail to emphasize that Smyth's view of inerrant scriptures is clearly limited to matters of doctrine. |
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That is precisely why the honest assertion that God is a mere product of the human imagination is branded as the worst of all mortal sins. |
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Finally, numeric simulation confirmed an assertion about usableness of described process. |
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The class invariant is an assertion which all the class instances have to satisfy. |
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Further, she asserts that surrogacy does not commodify children, but she presents no evidence for her assertion. |
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However, the assertion that Britain's population expansion contributed to the growth of technology has been recently challenged. |
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The central assertion of social contract approaches is that law and political order are not natural, but are instead human creations. |
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Research also supports the assertion that music and rhyme increase a child's ability in spatial reasoning, which aid mathematics skills. |
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At each stage the de facto situation precedes the de jure assertion, which merely regularizes an existing fact of life. |
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Robert de Baudricourt granted Joan an escort to visit Chinon after news from Orleans confirmed her assertion of the defeat. |
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Likewise, nonasserted material in a discourse longer than a sentence is not rejected when the main assertion is negated. |
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Some see his epistle as an assertion of Rome's authority over the church in Corinth and, by implication, the beginnings of papal supremacy. |
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This is not sufficient to prove Cabot's later assertion that he had visited Mecca, which he said in 1497 to the Milanese ambassador in London. |
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As part of the assertion of Norman control over England and Wales, FitzOsbern was one of the major Norman castle builders. |
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This may have been true, as much of Scandinavia was pagan at the time, but there is no data to corroborate the assertion. |
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There is also a claim about an earlier Bulgar Turkic origin of the word popular in Bulgaria, however it is only an unscholarly assertion. |
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However, recent archaeological investigations have challenged this assertion. |
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This may have represented the political assertion of lingering British culture in the region. |
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And yet, no clearer example of a deepity will you find than the assertion that math is an instinct. |
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A parent's assertion of a child's age was sufficient, and relieved employers of any liability should the child in fact be younger. |
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This assertion rests upon its being higher than its near northern neighbour, Swirl How. |
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Persisting still in the same career of imbecility and assertion, Mr. Stone proceeds to enunciate the following sciolistical riddle. |
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Then he asked if anyone wanted to dispute this assertion and was answered by peaceful snorings. |
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This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise. |
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He may have been executed in 1499, though no record of this exists beyond an assertion by George Buck over a century later. |
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He resiles to some extent from so dogmatic an assertion in his addenda and corrigenda, pp. |
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Thus, these results support the Adlerian theoretical assertion that birth order significantly influences vocational behavior. |
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It reaffirms Hook's assertion that Marcuse's totalistic sensibility immunized itself from any disconfirming factual evidence. |
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But Shibasaki rebutted Ghosn's assertion that the cost cutting program benefits Nissan's auto parts suppliers by boosting their efficiency. |
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They found plenty of email that gave the lie to his assertion that he didn't know about the incident. |
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This is because, handwaving and bald assertion aside, there have been few successful attempts at carrying out the hypothesized reductions. |
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Betiang's cultural commitment thus agrees with Young's assertion that primordialism seeks to identify and define the cultural, psychological dimensions of ethnicity. |
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It was this assertion of power from England onto France and from Aquitaine onto Castile which marked the difference from earlier in the Angevin period. |
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Charles shared his father's belief in the Divine Right of Kings, and his assertion of this led to a serious breach between the Crown and the English Parliament. |
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One of Romanticism's key ideas and most enduring legacies is the assertion of nationalism, which became a central theme of Romantic art and political philosophy. |
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The 1960s was a pivotal decade in the assertion of Aboriginal rights and a time of growing collaboration between Aboriginal activists and white Australian activists. |
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We are not certain that this argument amounts to anything more than the assertion that the State has the right to control the moral content of a person's thoughts. |
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According to the FTC, marketers must be able to substantiate every express and implied material claim that a general assertion conveys to a reasonable consumer. |
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Similarly, ongoing debates regarding civic education call upon the Deweyan assertion that schools, as community fixtures, must teach students 'how to live. |
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Cette assertion, Kafka semble en faire son credo litteraire. |
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The author's third assertion is that the Irish immigrants, while maintaining a strong affinity for their homeland, quickly transformed into loyal Prince Edward Islanders. |
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Instead, an utterer of the Liar is performing a false act because his performance fails to approach the goal at which acts of assertion are constitutively aimed. |
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