Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after looking it over and thinking it over, reported a change of mind to the London Observer. "In spite of my affection for America," he wrote, "I have sometimes felt a touch of the same irritation as my fellow Dutchmen, Frenchmen, and Britons at hearing my American friends confidently assert that America has done better by the Philippines than the rest of us Westerners have done by those Asian and African countries that have been temporarily under our rule. My glimpse of the Philippines has changed my feelings about this. The American boast is a proud one, but I believe...
...broad new venture would not be without domestic U.S. opponents-whom Nixon, perhaps, was better placed than Eisenhower or Dulles to convince and win over. Even Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey took to a podium in the Waldorf-Astoria before flying to Paris for the NATO meeting to assert that some estimates of Western Europe's need for new U.S. aid had been "greatly exaggerated. The fact is that in all probability existing institutions will be able to provide most of the assistance that may be needed." But the fact also was that any aid program backed wholeheartedly...
...group of Senators will assert that the Senate's rules expired at adjournment last summer, and that the body is now governed by ordinary parliamentary procedure. They will seek to enact a new set of rules with more effective limitations on debate than the present requirement of 64 Senate votes to halt filibusters. If these Northern Senators can secure a majority to support their argument against the continuity of Senate rules, they can pass whatever new rules they wish without fear of filibuster on their own move...
...only to take an interest in economic development-which is, after all, neutral-but it should interest itself as well and more profoundly than ever in the political, ideological and cultural problems. It is equally imperative for the highest and deepest in western diplomacy to assert itself in such a way as to close the hole in the ranks of the West on a basis of complete respect for the freedom and independence of the Middle East, and for genuine conditions of justice and equality between the West and the Middle East...
...Those on the stage are not allowed to look at the conductor. Instead they must set the pace of the music and provide cues for the conductor. The adherents of this method of presenting opera claim it is the only way to create a living performance. Other techniques, they assert, lead only to operatic concerts wherein the singers are puppets dressed in magnificent costumes and playing on elaborately decorated stages...