Word: assert
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...alleged leader, Kazem Darabi, a 34-year-old importer-exporter, worked for years as the German-based link between Tehran and the Lebanese Hizballah, according to the German prosecutors. The indictment identifies him as "an agent of the Iranian intelligence service VEVAK" and a Revolutionary Guards member. His assignment, assert German prosecutors, was to "liquidate" the Kurd leader as part of a "persecution strategy of the Iranian minister for intelligence and security against the Iranian opposition." The other four defendants, all Lebanese, are veterans of the Hizballah and Amal militia...
Starting with Push Comes to Shove, you could call Twyla Tharp Baryshnikov's inspired biographer. Push saw him as an immigrant dancer in a new and daunting company (A.B.T.) and country, determined to assert himself, join the fun, court the girls and still deal with the fact that he is irremediably different, set apart by culture and genius. By the time The Little Ballet came along in 1983, Misha was A.B.T.'s director, and that dance was a hilarious, poignant picture of a harried boss trying to cope with a fractious company. It was the dance equivalent...
Both Benoit and Jacques, the two women's "lovers," are, however, willing to risk themselves for the principle of freedom, not for the love of a single woman. This similarity corresponds to a similarity in the personalities of Irene and Sophie. Irene assert during one of her first meetings with Sophie that "Your eyes show you can be very tough. That doesn't bother me; I see the same look in the mirror every morning." The face of the individual, important throughout, here forces audience and characters to recognize internal likenesses. Indeed, one is made to realize throughout the movie...
...doing this he is not attempting to discredit current interpretations of postmodernism. "On the one hand, I'm calling into question the concept of fragmentation as somehow singly characteristic of postmodernism, but on the other hand I receive very strongly in that characteristic." In this way, paradoxically to re-assert the centrality of fragmentation in postmodernity...
...fourth point was his biggest problem. He claimed that African-American progress depended on increased educational commitment. There is no disputing the fact that African-Americans like all groups would benefit from increased educational attainment. However, to assert that the lack of education is due to some deficiency in commitment is ridiculous. I would like to remind Professor Steele that many African-Americans in the "Crucible of oppression" died for trying to educate themselves. Furthermore, the establishment of 117 African-American colleges and universities in the Reconstruction period, as well as the struggle to gain access to universities such...