Word: assertion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...elected. These are times that prove Proudhon's formulation: "The fecundity of the unexpected far exceeds the statesman's prudence." Americans should enjoy the moment of victory for just that long, a moment, and after that, look beyond the war and consider that their country cannot for very long assert its authority, moral or military, unless it can bring its realities at home into closer alignment with its persona in the world...
...week. Just three months after George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed a CFE agreement, U.S. officials apparently felt that the Soviets have been giving them highly suspect estimates of weapons in the treaty region and decided to postpone further formal meetings until March 21. In secret documents, the Soviets assert that they have only 21,000 tanks in Europe; the U.S. says the real number is 42,000. The U.S. expected a tally of 58,000 armored combat vehicles, but the Soviets counted only 28,000. The Soviets say they have only 13,000 pieces of artillery in the area...
...Executive Office of Communities and Development in the Weld Administration, told students that the New Paradigm offers an alternative to the traditional bureaucratic system of government. Instead, the New Paradigm contains five principles--free market orientation, choice, empowerment of the poor, decentralization and emphasis on what works--that Republicans assert will make the government both less expensive and more effective...
...appears from The Crimson's interview on February 1 ("New Group to Express Support for U.S. Troops") that Harry Wilson and Adam Taxin have not been very thorough in their reading of anti-war material. Despite what they assert, there has been a great deal of intelligent, in-depth discussion of why this war is wrong. Of course, there have been slogans as well...
Lockman said that instead of injecting money into the Gulf and continuing to assert the U.S.'s military dominance in the world, Bush must wage war on domestic problems such as education, poverty and the faltering economy...