Word: assertion
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...whole rationale for the Core is to introduce students to the way scholars wrote in that letter. "I assert that both Science Core courses and substitute departmental courses serve this function in a way that high school courses cannot...
Given the media feeding frenzy of the last year, it is possible to assert with a degree of certainty that the Monica S. Lewinsky-Bill Clinton relation-ship is the most common topic of conversation in this country. With an impeachment vote looming, it seems as if "Zippergate" will keep a high profile in the coming months...
Several of Thompson's colleagues were willingto assert--not for attribution--that his negativeassessment had nothing to do with Berkowitz'scritical book review...
...that Japan had been culturally static until then. Japan's ancient imperial capital Kyoto represented the classic division of old Japanese power: court, samurai, priests. It continued to exert a great influence on the country's art. But in Edo, a more secular and even demotic imagination began to assert itself--marked, writes Singer, by "bold, sometimes brash expression...and a playful outlook on life in general." This happened because Japanese society, in the new capital, became somewhat more open to change. Not very much, but a little, and then a little more. The once despised merchants and entrepreneurs...
Bouchard is currently facing eviction, but said he is optimistic because he knows his rights. "If you know you have rights and assert them then you can deal with it," he says...