Word: assert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent weeks, it has been proposed by supporters of choice on this campus that the appeals in the pamphlet to one's moral conscience are "inimical to what campus debate should be." As if the pre-born child were irrelevant, the advocates assert that the picture was "designed to provoke an immediate emotional reaction rather than rational debate...
Mexico promptly filed an international trade complaint. But it also took steps to reduce dolphin deaths, and by 1995 the number of dolphins killed by tuna fishermen annually had dropped below 5,000 worldwide--demonstrating, Mexicans assert, that fishing boats can encircle dolphins without killing the animals. The U.S. and a coalition of green groups met with Latin nations in Panama last October to hammer out new guidelines for environmentally sound tuna fishing. Their declaration permits encirclement so long as onboard observers certify that no dolphin drowned during the netting operation, and its provisions became the basis for a bill...
There is, however, a way to avoid all the potential unpleasantness associated with blocking groups. Don't block, just float. It is a simple solution, but it requires a solid constitution on the part of the floater. Very few of us have the courage to assert our independence in that way, to put our faith and our future happiness in the hands of fate. Or is it chance...
...Crimson, down only two goals going into the first intermission, realized they needed to assert themselves...
...have to assert ourselves and sometimes take positions the administration doesn't really want us to take," said Hyman. "The council isn't afraid to do that...