Word: assertional
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...good fortune has been that the local officialdom agrees with us, or at least that it goes along far enough to grant us independence. It is true, of course, that the College has at times tried to assert control, but these assaults have come only spasmodically. Whether relief in those cases came from higher officials or from the deans' self-restraint is obscure, but what is important is that all such attempts have failed...
...quarter of a century ago, when Claus was busy "spreading good cheer and good wishes" in a department store, he was forced for the first time to take legal action to assert his rights. The opinion of the court sets forth the situation...
...Hand That Feeds. The audacity of the nationalization act, say Bolivia's superheated nationalists, was equaled only by the necessity for it. Determined to assert the fact of their nationhood, they are willing to risk biting off the hand that feeds them. Tin pays for 50% of the food that they must now import from abroad. It is the foundation of their teetering economy, source of 80% of their foreign exchange and almost half of their government revenue. And for years Bolivian tin-and Bolivia itself-has been dominated by the three expropriated companies: Patiәo, Hochschild, Aramayo...
...must, lest the Board seek to turn these facts against us. It would be worse than fallacious to assert, as the administrators might on the strength of these low numbers, that repeal of the afternoon perquisite impedes too few people to warrant concern. That few students are harmed does not make the carving job less unnecessary and unreasonable. In fact, even if this prevented but one undergraduate from carrying on a normal social life, it would be inexcusable. Students are old enough to be trusted, not simply in academic matters, but in personal affairs as well. Whatever the excesses...
...study of philosophy. A lifelong agnostic, he believed that the supernatural is no concern of the philosopher ("Man can only know that which he has experienced"), held that philosophy is no more than a method of history. He flirted briefly with Marxism, later with Fascism, quickly rejected both ("to assert that liberty is dead is the same as saying that life is dead"). When Mussolini came to power, Croce retired to Naples, where he waited out the course of Fascism, constantly badgered Mussolini in his magazine La Critica. Il Duce never dared molest "Don Benedetto" (although mention of his name...