Word: assert
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...Some assert that the prospect of wealth and social respect was one of their main incentives for attending Harvard. Others hesitate at the notion of class transformation--and what some see as the abandonment of culture and past...
...other insiders assert that the auction, while its public garishness might have mortified Jackie, was her idea. Nancy Tuckerman, Jackie's White House social secretary and close friend until the former First Lady's death in May 1994, told Time that "Jackie did mention in her will that the children, if they wanted to, should have an auction. She said that would be the practical thing to do." Tuckerman remembers accompanying Jackie on periodic visits ("she was sentimental about possessions") to storage rooms housing her belongings. "She would say to me, 'I keep thinking about my children with all these...
...disgusted is Johnson, in fact, that he, like Bultmann before him, counsels believers to ignore the search for the historical Jesus altogether. Does the Seminar condemn the Resurrection as unprovable? Rather than trying to assert the authenticity of the story of the empty crypt or backing up John's tale of Doubting Thomas, Johnson maintains that the Resurrection that has always mattered to Christians is the ongoing miracle, the "transforming, transcendent personal power" that marks the moving of the Holy Spirit in the hearts and among the communities of believers. "Christianity," he writes, "has never been able to 'prove...
...arrive at a dead end. We have two choices--either to assert ourselves as independent, self-respecting, intelligent women or to strip ourselves of this integrity with the hope of attaining social appeal to men. It used to seem we were heading toward an era in which these two elements could be fused, in which we would not have to make a choice. If our intellectual abilities are not desirable to Harvard men, then we can assume they are equally if not more disadvantageous elsewhere. If at Harvard we are not surrounded by men who attribute great value to female...
More hard-to-believe testimony comes from David C. Reardon in his article entitled "The Abortion Experience for Victims of Rape and Incest." It uses data from 1979 to assert that "the vast majority of incest victims want to carry their pregnancy to term." If they do, then why is the case of incest so often used as the paragon example of an unwanted pregnancy...