Word: assertional
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Advocates assert that the extention will positively benefit the democratic process by (1) getting the American people first interested in political questions when they are at their height of intellectual activity, and (2) using increased college political activity as a bridge over which more qualified people will enter politics, full time and part time...
After a careful study of the Randall Report on foreign trade, a group of 17 top economists condemned it in a pamphlet published last week for its "want of basic philosophy and for its failure to assert American leadership or to enlighten the American people as to their international responsibilities and opportunities. [It is] not a document from which the nation could derive inspiration...
...undertaking] charge of a parish. Yet one cannot help feeling that there is something wrong in all this; that young men are not moved by the call to security . . . that, in short, the Gospel should not really be rewritten: 'If any man will come after me, let him assert himself and insist on a house and follow me; for whosoever receiveth not ?550 a year cannot be my disciple...
Second, you stated that America is in a more favorable position to "take the initiative in foreign affairs." You assert that all Eisenhower has done was to continue the foreign policy of his predecessors and to claim credit for winning the Korean War. In the first place, the war is not over; in the second place, Eisenhower has recognized America's position of leadership by supporting Dulles' statement to France and by issuing a threat to Red China warning that if China should resume hostilities in Korea, America would not limit the conflict to Korea. This is not a weak...
...different from clearing its literal meaning. Peter's leadership, he says, was an "example and pattern," nothing more. It was not until the third century that a bishop of Rome cited the Matthew text in support of his primacy. Says Cullmann: "It is arguing in a circle . . . to assert that, since on the one hand the promise of Jesus to Peter exists and on the other hand the fact exists that Rome exercised a primacy from a relatively early date, we therefore must conclude that this primacy rests on that promise...