Word: assertive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...human need, unsentimentally stated (and lubricated by alcohol), will out. They talk, they shyly share, they confront mortality. Most of all, they assert their humanity, which turns out to be far larger than we (or perhaps they) ever imagined it might...
...community, allegedly at the behest of Blair's powerful communications director, Alastair Campbell. The testimony to Hutton showed that top spies put it in, and believed it at the time. Hutton also condemned the BBC's haphazard investigation into Gilligan's claims. Davies and Dyke were so determined to assert the BBC's independence that they circled the wagons around Gilligan without establishing whether his work stood up - and Hutton concluded that Kelly did not say all the things Gilligan pinned on him. But having extracted a simple morality tale from Gilligan's sloppy reporting, Hutton seemed determined to exclude...
...administrators charged with overseeing mental health services echo the idea that time off can be the best option for students with severe mental illness—and assert that students should take this route more often...
...restrictive oversight. As expected, abortion rights advocates and college women alike have lauded the recommendation. Says Anne M. Morris ’04, “I am a very strong supporter of putting measures in place so that women can feel like they are able to assert control over their reproductive choices with as few barriers as possible.” But, has another option been overlooked...
This is only a partial list, but it suffices to illustrate a critical point: The Bush administration is pursuing an ambitious and far-reaching policy agenda whose repercussions will be felt for decades to come. One may try to assert that a Democratic president would pursue basically the same agenda, but a comparison between, say, the Clinton and Bush administrations—with respect to fiscal policy, foreign policy, environmental policy and a host of other issues—simply belies this notion. Remember, for example, that President Clinton raised taxes in the first year of his presidency and left...