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assert as in: asserted her opinion that...
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The defense also asserts that the defendant has no previous record of crime.
asserts = says
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- She asserts that her opponent lacks managerial experience.
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She uses statistics to support her assertion that the regulators are barring competition in the industry rather than preventing abuses.
assertion = claim
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Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself;
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assert = state or say
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Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?
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He claimed that he'd used only his hands to punish POWs, an assertion that would have riled the men who'd been kicked, clubbed with his kendo stick and baseball bat, and whipped in the face with his belt.
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assertion = statement
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I had to take it back. But not here. ... At Devon, where every stick of furniture didn't assert that Finny was a part of it, I could make it up to him.
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assert = say (that something is true)
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So Ralph asserted his chieftainship and could not have chosen a better way if he had thought for days.
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asserted = made a non-verbal statement claiming
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"Today, Wonderland will be rid of Alyss Heart for good!" Jack of Diamonds asserted with a puffing out of his already puffed-out belly.
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asserted = said forcefully
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He said in the famous "acid" tone that Counsel knew so well: "Do I understand you to assert that women are not subject to homicidal mania?"
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"I've done some nice things out on Long Island," asserted Mr. McKee.
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The nights become quiet and the hunt for copper driving-bands and the silken parachutes of the French star-shells begins. Why the driving-bands are so desirable no one knows exactly. The collectors merely assert that they are valuable.
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She persisted in asserting that she had not taken the brooch.
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- Already, however, the legal tongues are wagging, and one young law student is loudly asserting that the rights of the owner are already completely sacrificed, his property being held in contravention of the statues of mortmain, since the tiller, as emblemship, if not proof, of delegated possession, is held in a dead hand. (source)
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She asserted that it proved him to be a man of the bold free West.
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But the thought asserted itself, and persisted, until it produced a vision of his body totally frozen.
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asserted = presented itself forcefully (as though to say it was true)
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This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.
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assertion = statement that something is true
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The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth.
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asserts = says (something is true -- especially something disputed)
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"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself: Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me -- for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."
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My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again.
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assertion = statement (claiming something happened)
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He still reasoned with her, but in vain. She would not calculate, she would not compare. She would only smile and assert.
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"Dodge Anders has escaped!" Jack of Diamonds asserted, louder than the others.
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Allen also asserted that aside from a camera at the front gate, there were no surveillance cameras on the property.
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"I wasn't given military orders," Watanabe said, contradicting the assertion he'd made in the 1995 interview.
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The gallery of onlookers, none of whom had witnessed the fight on the rue de Rivoli, came alive with loud assertions of "C'est vrai! C'est vrai!"
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He said that he'd only been trying to teach the POWs military discipline, and asserted that he'd been acting under orders.
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Gottlieb had asserted that they produced doubtful vaccines,
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asserted = said (something is true -- especially something disputed)
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"I hate you—I hate you—I hate you—" a louder stamp with each assertion of hatred.
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I shuddered to hear the infatuated assertion.
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I waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face, as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged.
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Anne's "so there" was only intended to emphasize her assertion, but Marilla took it as a display of defiance.
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Mrs. Rachel was not often sick and had a well-defined contempt for people who were; but grippe, she asserted, was like no other illness on earth and could only be interpreted as one of the special visitations of Providence.
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My father had often, during my imprisonment, heard me make the same assertion; when I thus accused myself, he sometimes seemed to desire an explanation, and at others he appeared to consider it as the offspring of delirium, and that, during my illness, some idea of this kind had presented itself to my imagination, the remembrance of which I preserved in my convalescence.
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Susan was only acting on the same truths, and pursuing the same system, which her own judgment acknowledged, but which her more supine and yielding temper would have shrunk from asserting.
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asserting = saying forcefully
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Now act as you please: write and contradict my assertion — expose my falsehood as soon as you like.
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assertion = statement that something is true
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But this was immediately opposed by Tom Bertram, who asserted the part of Amelia to be in every respect the property of Miss Crawford, if she would accept it.
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Presently Mr. Wood said — "I cannot proceed without some investigation into what has been asserted, and evidence of its truth or falsehood."
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I looked upon him as the sort of person to be made a fuss with, and to make a fuss himself in any trifling disorder, and was chiefly concerned for those who had to nurse him; but now it is confidently asserted that he is really in a decline, that the symptoms are most alarming, and that part of the family, at least, are aware of it.
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- I could not forget your conduct to me, Jane — the fury with which you once turned on me; the tone in which you declared you abhorred me the worst of anybody in the world; the unchildlike look and voice with which you affirmed that the very thought of me made you sick, and asserted that I had treated you with miserable cruelty. (source)
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This is no passing and idle word, but truth and fact; and the assertion is verified by the position to which these qualities have raised the state.
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assertion = statement that something is true
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assert as in: asserted her authority
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She says women should assert themselves more.
assert = be forceful in exercising influence or rights
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To have a well-behaved dog, it is important that you assert your dominance.
assert = be forceful in exercising influence
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Walter was notified that he was being sent to Poland, to continue the assertion of Germany's authority over both the Poles and Jews alike.
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assertion = process of exercising (power and rights)
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He seemed to have moved beyond his need to assert so adamantly his autonomy, his need to separate himself from his parents.
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assert = forcefully put into action
- Louie looked up, saw a face he didn't recognize, and felt an upswell of dread, knowing that a new guard would likely assert his authority. (source)
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Ender had been awarded the rank of admiral, too, and this was one of the few times he asserted the privileges the rank implied.
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asserted = exercised forcefully
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Criminals, he hinted, who were in cahoots with all sorts of folks — folks who'd stop at nothing to assert undue influence on him, because of his growing political connections.
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Dill's maleness was beginning to assert itself.
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There is no stage you comprehend better than the one you have just left, and as I watched the Jeeps almost asserting a wish to bounce up the side of Mount Washington at eighty miles an hour instead of rolling along this dull street, they reminded me, in a comical and a poignant way, of adolescents.
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asserting = forcefully exercising
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Even now he dared not assert himself but held the Bible uncertainly in his hands and asked, "What would you have me read, sir?"
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"Who you callin' punk?" B. J. had asserted without fear.
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asserted = forcefully exercised rights
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He paused, and for a moment assumed again his air of a schoolmaster questioning a promising pupil: 'How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?'
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Her body asserted itself with a restless movement of her knee, and she stood up.
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asserted = was forceful
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He has denied to me since that it was hysterics, and insisted that it was only his sense of humor asserting itself under very terrible conditions.
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Again a mystic sisterhood would contumaciously assert itself, as she met the sanctified frown of some matron, who, according to the rumour of all tongues, had kept cold snow within her bosom throughout life.
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The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway, and asserting a right to predominate, to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last: yes, — and to speak. "I grieve to leave Thornfield..."
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Chance—or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father's door—led me first to M. Krempe, professor of natural philosophy.
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asserted = exercised forceful influence
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We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.
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assert = declare
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Maybe he was comforted by Louie's assertion of control, protected thereby from the awful possibilities that his imagination hung before him.
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Devon is sometimes considered the most beautiful school in New England, and even on this dismal afternoon its power was asserted.
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Now September is asserting itself.
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I could not but admire, even at such a moment, the way in which a dominant spirit asserted itself.
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For, friend John, hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble into its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert himself and say at once and loud, "I am here!"
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On the stage they would be set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands. They are, however, I am told, very harmless and rather wanting in natural self-assertion.
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assertion = exercise of power
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I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.
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Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.
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- He found Mozi's assertion to be true.† (source)
- But tell me, Alexander: What are we to make of his assertion that democracy is particularly suited to industry?† (source)
- "I know him too, and I tell you he's a Muslim," asserted the imam.† (source)
- At trial, Mr. McMillian asserted that he is innocent and that he did not know Mr. Myers at the time of this crime.† (source)
- "I admit," Teabing said, "the assertions are dire, but you must understand the Church's powerful motivations to conduct such a cover-up.† (source)
- Eventually a pattern will assert itself.† (source)
- "Fourteen times," Morris asserted.† (source)
- It was not until Dutton went away to school that a streak of independence began to assert itself.† (source)
- The Japanese man had asked about the land then, and asserted his wish to buy the seven acres his family had once held.† (source)
- Here we can make a more definite assertion, given it's found three instances of messages posted that directly say, for example, I'm allergic to horses.† (source)
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- If Rose were here, she would assert that Daddy had seen the Kotex box plenty over the years, he'd just never dared to touch it.† (source)
- Why don't you just assert yourself for a change?† (source)
- He could reason with himself all he wanted and assert that an apology would always be accepted; he could remind himself that he was the parent here, the one in charge-but all of that was extremely hard to remember when you were sitting in a visiting room at a jail, with a woman on your left who was trying to play footsie with her lover across that forbidden red line, and a man on your right who was cursing a blue streak.† (source)
- Harry persisted in the common room that evening, but his assertion that the whole team would be devastated if Ron left was somewhat undermined by the fact that the rest of the team was sitting in a huddle in a distant corner, clearly muttering about Ron and casting him nasty looks.† (source)
- With a shudder, I thought again about my Aunt Martha's assertion that my mother was a little simple; no one had ever said she was a liar.† (source)
- In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations.† (source)
- For the second time that evening Emily was obliged to assert her rights over written messages passing through her household.† (source)
- "They're gonna end up puttin' your back in prison—or a cemetery!" his mother asserted.† (source)
- Once he stops walking, his foot asserts itself: there's a regular throbbing, it feels hot and tight, as if it's crammed into a tiny shoe.† (source)
- Ben was still making assertions of affirmation when I hung up the phone.† (source)
- Jack had meant to leave him in doubt, as an assertion of power; but Piggy by advertising his omission made more cruelty necessary.† (source)
- See the sketchbook, hear Mr. Harvey's assertions about the cornfield.† (source)
- Margaret Kochamma had moved out of her parents' home a year ago, for no greater reason than a youthful assertion of independence.† (source)
- "I can't either," said Arthur, who felt it was time he began to assert himself.† (source)
- "If you maintain a C average, you can stay in school and get your degree," he asserted.† (source)
- That's entitlement: his mother permits that casual incivility because she wants him to learn to assert himself with people in positions of authority.† (source)
- The assertion that the judicial police conducted shakedowns at San Ramon and threatened migrants is from Emilio Canteros Mendez, an engineer on the Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab railroad.† (source)
- Early on, he seemed to accept Lyme's assertion that the entrances couldn't be taken, and dropped out of the conversation entirely.† (source)
- Still, the vivid green of the grass—where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt—seems out of place.† (source)
- Amos is trying to assert himself as the leader of the House of Life, but it's not going to be easy.† (source)
- Inside the school doorways, I could see Mrs. Baez was pleased to see me asserting myself.† (source)
- The world is broken because in Eden you abandoned relationship with us to assert your own independence.† (source)
- When once or twice Sethe tried to assert herself—be the unquestioned mother whose word was law and who knew what was best—Beloved slammed things, wiped the table clean of plates, threw salt on the floor, broke a windowpane.† (source)
- Dede, you're plenty brave," Manolo asserted in his courtly way.† (source)
- For Aziz, too, the caves speak through their aftermath—of the perfidy of the English, of the falseness of his subservience, of his need to assert responsibility for his own life.† (source)
- My hunch is that he'll be in the tunnel now, to assert his control over his own destiny.† (source)
- As I stood there and thought through a scriptural basis for experiencing heaven without dying, I realized that Colton, in telling me he had died "for a little bit," had only been trying to match up his pastor-dad's assertion with what he knew to be the facts of his own experience.† (source)
- And then use the existence of the weapons caches to support their assertion that they were only acting in self-defense and you had refused to do your duty and protect them.† (source)
- "The natural dominance of the master again asserted itself without pretension," wrote Van Brunt, "and we once more became his willing and happy pupils."† (source)
- I SUPPOSE SHE ASSENTED TO THE ASSERTIONS ...THAT THERE WERE NO PEOPLE WHO HAD SO MUCH IMPUDENCE AS THE AMERICANS—FOR THERE WAS NOT ANY PEOPLE BRED EVEN AT COURTS WHO HAD SO MUCH CONFIDENCE AS THE AMERICANS.† (source)
- Women, he asserted, have exactly the same powers of reasoning as men, provided they get the same training and are exempt from child rearing and housekeeping.† (source)
- He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse-the things which often make dialogue impossible.† (source)
- I was beginning to doubt her assertion from the first day we'd met—that she wasn't sadistic about the use of her gift.† (source)
- The analysts would call his family the source problem or say he drinks and smokes to assert his independence.† (source)
- There was a great uproar over the attempt on his life, and before Severo could do anything to stop it, an announcement appeared in the opposition paper in which veiled accusations were made against the oligarchy and it was asserted that the conservatives were even capable of this act, because they could not forgive Severo del Valle for throwing his lot in with the liberals despite his social class.† (source)
- His letter, one council member asserted, was simply illegal.† (source)
- The patient must lay out the often fantastic assertions of the first interpreter and scrutinize them with the second.† (source)
- Armansky read her report over the weekend, several times, and spent part of Monday doing a half-hearted double-check of some of her assertions.† (source)
- The clan chief seemed to have forgotten his earlier assertion that Az Sweldn rak Anhuin would not harm a guest.† (source)
- Both growers denied knowing you could use the plants for food; they both asserted that their interest was in the flower.† (source)
- Again, the presence of the old Reverend Mother asserted itself, but now there was a tripling of mutual awareness—two active and one that lay quietly absorbing.† (source)
- As Andy continued to assert that there were no full bottles at the South Summit, Mike looked at me quizzically.† (source)
- And as I say, there would appear to be some truth in this assertion, for why else would all these people give a spontaneous cheer simply because the pier lights have come on?† (source)
- how subtly we shifted emotions, found shadings, using the scantest movement of our arms, our loins, the slightest intake of breath, to reach agreement on our fear, to advance our competition, to assert our root desires against the chaos in our souls.† (source)
- Believe it or not, I'm fairly busy at the moment," she asserted.† (source)
- Take away someone's aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves.† (source)
- There have been no illnesses associated with this product?' the company's press release brashly asserted.† (source)
- He could even see the truth of her loving and vehement assertion that it was he, his love, which had given her the courage to begin.† (source)
- Excerpt from the memorandum sent by the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians to the House and the Senate of Canada, April 1946 It is urgently submitted that the Orders-in-Council [for the deportation of Canadians of Japanese racial origin] are wrong and indefensible and constitute a grave threat to the rights and liberties of Canadian citizens, and that Parliament as guardian of these rights and the representative of the people, should assert its powers and require the Governor-in-Council to withdraw the Orders, for the following reasons.† (source)
- In particular, advocates should be wary of repeating assertions that investing in maternal health is highly cost-effective.† (source)
- The dream was at fault, for the treadmill mood of it had lingered, making him question Nye's assertions-in a sense, disbelieve them.† (source)
- Still, he pushes forward gamely-there's a lot of ground to cover in this survey course-and by 8:55 he's tying social characteristics of lateeighteenth-century American progressives to the emergence of public educational institutions, schools that carried, he asserts, "an evangelical fervor in what they saw as the serious business of educating youngsters, especially the hordes of immigrants."† (source)
- Maybe Alec felt a greater need to assert his Shadowhunter-ness here.† (source)
- "But their souls must be fed, too," Miss Lydia asserted as she recruited her helpers for the Uplift work.† (source)
- And then my mother's strength asserted itself.† (source)
- I thought I might brief you on his record later today, but as he seems to insist on asserting himself in the Group Meeting, we might as well dispense with him now.† (source)
- Who is it that presumes to put an assertion (what shall I call it, my Lords ?) contrary to fact, contrary to evidence?† (source)
- He always enjoyed being strict with the heifers, barking at them, asserting his authority.† (source)
- As a scholar and writer, Farmer had taken his greatest pains to assert the interconnectedness of the rich and poor parts of the world, and the dam was his favorite case study.† (source)
- And when the U.S. government asserts that terrorists raise money by selling black-market cigarettes, that acts as a rather jarring moral incentive.† (source)
- 'I'm the best friend you've got and you don't even know it,' he asserted belligerently, and walked out of the chaplain's tent.† (source)
- At times shaking my head no is more self-assertion than I can manage.† (source)
- This was particularly troublesome for Joe, who, at the age of eleven, was beginning to assert his independence.† (source)
- "I have heard about her gifts from a cousin who is very close to a dear friend of the sister-in-law of Lady Dorchester," Mademoiselle LeFarge asserts.† (source)
- The defense asserts that this witness is an imposter planted by the prosecution to further their case.† (source)
- For a moment he did not think they were going to obey, but in the end old habit asserted itself.† (source)
- The speech was brief, lean and mean, but firmly asserted that it was the graduates' day to celebrate, not the institution's.† (source)
- Sistrunk was admired and congratulated for his bold assertions and positions, while Kendrick Bost kept an arm on Lettie's shoulder as she whispered gravely to her loved ones.† (source)
- When the president arrived, Garbo repeated her assertion that she didn't know Billings.† (source)
- He put his hands on his hips and gave Kiyo a sternly comic look, squinting at him through one eye the way Papa would when he was asserting his authority.† (source)
- I couldn't bring myself to tell my friends about the wonderful new insult that had just been added to my vocab list, but when I glanced at myself in the rearview mirror, Wesley's assertion that I was the unattractive, undesirable tagalong (more like dragalong) seemed to be confirmed.† (source)
- The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites.† (source)
- He answers with his mouth full, a feeble attempt to assert himself.† (source)
- "That's the way they assert themselves these days," Henry said.† (source)
- True, we can't verify any of Mr. Hunter's assertions about Svensson, but we do have a rather unusual string of events to consider here.† (source)
- A commentator on the NBC Blue network baldly asserted that the image had been "carefully posed" by Joe.† (source)
- His old friend Mouzafer was not yet too feeble to assert his will on the school he helped to build.† (source)
- My mind roves back to the battlefield and my first kill's assertion: that everyone on that field will die by my hand.† (source)
- It's that continual question mark, as though to assert yourself and, so, okay, state something is either factually correct or something that you believe were too assertive for a woman, that it would be unfeminine.† (source)
- In all of the Oriental religions great value is placed on the Sanskrit doctrine of Tat tvam asi, "Thou art that," which asserts that everything you think you are and everything you think you perceive are undivided.† (source)
- I threw myself into the lectures, defending, asserting the rights of women; and though the girls continued to buzz around, I was careful to keep the biological and ideological carefully apart-which wasn't always easy, for it was as though many of the sisters were agreed among themselves (and assumed that I accepted it) that the ideological was merely a superfluous veil for the real concerns of life.† (source)
- He stated that he agreed with Holabird and went on to repeat virtually all of the prosecutor's assertions.† (source)
- The few problems that did arise, it was asserted, were caused by "certain types," namely the rising numbers of poor Irish, German, and Scandinavian immigrants.† (source)
- He asserted that Operation Mayibuye and the policy of guerrilla warfare had not been adopted as ANC policy.† (source)
- So much for chivalry, she thought, annoyed that he hadn't given her the opportunity to assert her independence.† (source)
- By nature or by exposure he had become like them, in their understatement,their blunt assertion of will.† (source)
- Psychologists assert it happens automatically whenever a brain acquires certain very high number of associational paths.† (source)
- But there are times when, much as I want to assert myself, know it's the right thing to do, I can't find the inner fortitude to follow through with a simple two-letter word.† (source)
- You may not like the idea, it may be too much for you, but what you deny, and what Giorgione asserts, is true.† (source)
- If proposes that many men want the freedom to assert their masculine identities, but contemporary society continually frustrates that.† (source)
- Your father did things I didn't approve of, but," Uncle Lee adamantly asserted, "your father wasn't evil.† (source)
- He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims-as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs.† (source)
- After teaching them the basic steps, Allan deliberately stayed back, giving the kids room to assert themselves.† (source)
- And the columnist seemed to have been implying that Nellor asserted his will at Teknologik no less than he did at the Post.† (source)
- The North was quietly asserting its total control while the South was left to protest about its disturbed fishing grounds.† (source)
- And my father only added to it, for whenever I began to talk to him of my feelings toward Reb Saunders he invariably countered by defending him and by asserting that the faith of Jews like Reb Saunders had kept us alive through two thousand years of violent persecution.† (source)
- In your statement you assert that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence.† (source)
- Hisham felt fear and asked him what he meant, to which Dr. Mansour replied that being a surgeon was a matter of feeling before it was one of learning and that his long experience allowed him to judge whether the surgical sense was present in a person or not; he had made up his mind to observe him today during the operation and could assert—and for this he was very sorry—that he would never make a surgeon, for which reason he would advise him to go to some other department—internal medicine, for example, or dermatology—where everything depended on training.† (source)
- Mrs. Barlowe was correct in her assertion that Dunwoody did not indulge in the vulgar practice of criminal defense.† (source)
- This assertion isn't based in speculation.† (source)
- We are "fighting for the maintenance of law and order," they wrote, "to assert the strength and dignity of the government" against the threat of "dissolution, anarchy, and ruin."† (source)
- I was half expecting him to ask why, or assert himself and insist.† (source)
- I am sure it could not have been easy for him to see his wife more learned than he himself was, for Nathan could not even write his name; yet not once did he assert his rights and forbid me my pleasure, as lesser men might have done.† (source)
- Because Leila does not question these assertions.† (source)
- GUIL (musing) : The law of probability, it has been oddly asserted, is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys (he has surprised himself) ...if six monkeys were ....ROS: Game?† (source)
- But the guerrilla within asserted his presence if not his primacy from the very beginning, and a small bloodless war, without strategies or anthems, began to rage for the control of my interior.† (source)
- VLADIMIR: Your Worship wishes to assert his prerogatives?† (source)
- There would probably be distaste, and possibly an act of independence, of self-assertion.† (source)
- I argued with one of these cops—a choleric ugly Irishman—asserting my right to enter, and I might have remained outside for hours had it not been for Larry.† (source)
- In politics the Babylonian would assert a close but mystical connection between rulers and the mumbling gods.† (source)
- It might have been my easiness, my wish to appear unhumiliated: Theotime was soon looking for new ways of asserting himself.† (source)
- Many carried babies who were too small to walk-or who did not wish to assert the powers that made walking unnecessary.† (source)
- MARGARET All the world knows Your Grace's book, asserting the seven sacraments of the Church.† (source)
- It came from somewhere to one side and higher than the level of either garden or wild flowers, and it quietly asserted its excellence over everything else.† (source)
- One day Mrs. Hopewell had picked up one of the books the girl had just put down and opening it at random, she read, "Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is.† (source)
- They voted for the revelation; it had made their hearts faint, and they would assert it again.† (source)
- Indeed the assertion of power by both Houses was illustrated by the visit of Congressman Anson Burlingame to the House of Commons† (source)
- Before she left the room, she said, in order to assert her authority: "You will call me if he wakes."† (source)
- That was the extent, Gonzales asserted, of their duties.† (source)
- If nothing else, it is a radical assertion of the life force.† (source)
- The Count's assertion had seemed so axiomatic that he had not prepared an elaboration.† (source)
- Every parent loves their children," Mack asserted.† (source)
- One or the other would assert itself, rush or dribble through me, and pass on.† (source)
- It was too late for him to assert his claim to the discovery.† (source)
- There was no reason for him to assert his possession of me more than his possession of you.† (source)
- She pushed his hands inward and up, her mind battling, and finally asserting her right to do this.† (source)
- He had only to assert the most commonplace thing and it sounded important and convincing.† (source)
- "It is no dishonor if Saphira does it of her free will," asserted Arya.† (source)
- "If she goes, I go," Mama asserts, but the guard has already turned his back on her.† (source)
- He thought they were both right in one of their assertions but wrong in the other.† (source)
- They repeated Mayor Nagin's assertion that the city had devolved into an "animalistic state."† (source)
- But how did you come to forget that journalists actually have to back up their assertions?† (source)
- That assertion attracted the full attention of law enforcement officials.† (source)
- I began to feel embarrassed that I hadn't asserted more control during the encounter.† (source)
- The time for ambiguity has passed,asserted Eragon.† (source)
- Alternation between dependency and self-assertion is common.† (source)
- Eventually, they both calmed again and the night's quiet asserted itself once more.† (source)
- The Count considered the manager's assertion for a moment.† (source)
- When my father asserted his point of view, mine vanished.† (source)
- Reports from abroad asserted, erroneously, that Jack the Ripper had returned.† (source)
- Jesus, anticipating his hesitation, asserted, "C'mon, Mack.† (source)
- He laughed at the absurdity of Jeod's assertion.† (source)
- Myers asserted that he was shoved and threatened by Mr. McMillian when he went into the cleaners.† (source)
- "Nonsense," asserted Elain, wrapping a shawl around her shoulders.† (source)
- "I'm positive," asserted Mack adamantly.† (source)
- "And for good reason," asserted Murtagh.† (source)
- A god wouldn't have to alter nature to accomplish his will," asserted Eragon.† (source)
- His voice had a hard edge; he seemed to be asserting himself as the alpha baboon.† (source)
- In many respects you were correct in your assertions.† (source)
- TOC laughed heartily, while the two other boys repeatedly asserted their heterosexuality.† (source)
- They speak of wargs and skinchangers and assert that it was Robb Stark who slew my Wendel.† (source)
- Alan made all these assertions to Yousef, trying to convince himself, too.† (source)
- We were forced to assert ourselves, elbowing our way forward like the others.† (source)
- Shrope, you assert that you and your family are utterly innocent in this affair?† (source)
- The problem is that in order for us to assert that defense, she'd have to admit she killed him.† (source)
- A headache began to assert itself above his right eye, the pain digging into his flesh—migraine.† (source)
- "I'm not trying to pry," I asserted, "I just want to know so ...so I don't do the same as ..."† (source)
- "I assume," said Orrin to Nasuada, "that you wish to assert your claim."† (source)
- Adams's sole objective was to make war on France, Callender asserted.† (source)
- I'm not frightened," whispered Lydia Sessions through white lips that belied her assertion.† (source)
- You have no moral superiority to assert or to defend.† (source)
- And there was a way to test this assertion.† (source)
- Now he was coming to accept Bublanski's assertion that this couldn't explain Bjurman's murder.† (source)
- And Mr. Sefelt has been asserting he needs no more medication.† (source)
- She kept asserting everything was 'mock' this and 'mock' that.† (source)
- On the contrary, they assert that Bjurman invariably behaved correctly and kindly towards them.† (source)
- Make the assertion, then figure out the means—this was his strategy.† (source)
- In Weslaco, Belle Block remained unconvinced by this assertion.† (source)
- " With considerable satisfaction, Jija asserted: "We women have become fearless.† (source)
- Some asserted that it would hurt our case if we testified.† (source)
- There is an old song which asserts that 'the best things in life are free.'† (source)
- "What Arya did was an accident," asserted Oromis.† (source)
- The quietly inoffensive assertion of a black child's attempt to communicate with a white adult.† (source)
- The caller, a man, repeated his original assertion, and added, "I did it.† (source)
- Rudolph and Sachs are asserting their masculinity to the extreme.† (source)
- If New York had tried to assert its rights by force, a war between the States might have started.† (source)
- Everyone who had taken part, it was generally asserted, was doomed, but that was not so.† (source)
- "We offer protection," Ithal asserts, but Mrs. Nightwing will not be swayed.† (source)
- Not the 'late at night' that was asserted by Cinque.† (source)
- Your assertion is, in effect, exactly what I was looking for.† (source)
- "ambition ....is the most lively in the most intelligent and most generous minds," he asserted.† (source)
- The assertion was later retracted, and the photographer tried to take it in stride.† (source)
- "We never make assertions, Miss Taggart," said Hugh Akston.† (source)
- "They must be crazy," the cadet asserted.† (source)
- The defense asserts that the Workshop has cloned the real Max McDaniels.† (source)
- "You wouldn't be so fond of her if she wasn't fond of you," he asserted confidently.† (source)
- The last assertion was promptly challenged by Logan Green, who undertook the cross-examination.† (source)
- And why had I not asserted myself more often in the past?† (source)
- I can prove my assertions, but I can't give you the documentation without revealing a source.† (source)
- And they have gravely asserted that all animals, including humans, degenerate in America.† (source)
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