Word: assertional
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...death of the old European order, which forced the Vatican to deal not with monarchs or heads of state but with the people, and to find new ways of reaching them. Above all, it was caused by Pius XII's insistence that the papacy had a mission to assert Christian truths about all phases of human life. The Pope delivered thousands of addresses to delegations from every imaginable trade, profession or calling-each address painstakingly composed by himself...
Sarbanes did not say whether he favored written pledges or simply verbal promises of non-discrimination from landlords. But he did assert that the Housing Registry "should aim at getting a stronger commitment from landlords in order to obtain listing...
...sections (the lecture system remains alien to their culture). The girls proved interesting to teach, "a conscientious bunch, though as a group not so bright as the Radcliffe students." As for the obvious enticement for a bachelor, Labaree's plans for a June marriage with a Vassar-Wellesley girl assert his freedom from the law of proximity...
...chances that he could win an explicit U.N. endorsement of the U.S. backing of Nationalist claims to Quemoy and Matsu were slim indeed.) As for the Chinese Communists, there were indications that they. too. would not mind seeing the crisis discussed in the U.N.. where they could assert their claim to big-power status...
...claim to be right is spiritually risky -"it leads into that typically Jewish prison of self-righteousness which Our Lord so often terribly rebuked." But we have no right to assume "that the Psalmists are deceived or lying when they assert that, as against their particular enemies at some particular moment, they are completely in the right. Their voices while they say so may grate harshly on our ear and suggest to us that they are an unamiable people. But ... to be wronged does not commonly make people amiable...