Word: assertional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...America, "is nothing less than a complete change, reversal--revolution if you wish--in the social and economic patterns of the countries to which we are accredited." The Corps' job is to "give the people we work with an awareness of where the tools are to enable them to assert their political power...
Those less willing to trust the rebels demand direct British rule by an Executive Council made up of British colonial civil servants. They assert that independence for Rhodesia is unthinkable before majority rule is established. Rhodesia should remain a colony until control by the Africans is a fact and not a promise...
Such an episode illustrates Congressional tendencies to assert independence from the Executive at the expense of urgent social needs. A four-year term for House members, by binding them somewhat more closely to their party's presidential candidate and platform, will make Congressmen more responsive to the national problems of the remaining third of the twentieth century. And it will allow them to work more efficiently and thoroughly at the task of solving them...
...traditional moral philosophy have come to be considerably toned down. An influential 1963 statement by British Quakers held that "homosexual affection can be as selfless as heterosexual affection" and therefore is not necessarily a sin. A surprising number of Protestant churchmen accept this idea. Most will still assert that homosexuality is an offense against God and man, but usually with qualifications. Says Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy: "The Lord made man and woman, and this implies a sexual relationship and sexual harmony which is in the center of nature." He is echoed by Harvard Divinity School's Harvey...
...students claim that the Medical School has reacted to the pressure of increasing amounts of knowledge, which it must communicate to future doctors, simply by multiplying formal academic exercises. Rather than improving, reorganizing, and streamlining the present courses, they assert, the School has only increased the number of mechanical, uninstructive tasks which these courses require. Thus, in addition to inhibiting original thinking, these formal exercises squander valuable time...