Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assert [TIME, Jan. 28]: "Boiling at the idea of giving a Negro a white man's wage, Southern Senators planned a filibuster. . . ." I respectfully point out that what you state as a fact is obviously a mere assumption on your part, since you have no evidence of the fact. You can find nothing in S. 101 that says anything about wages...
...spirit that moved Eire to declare her independence moved two of her western isles to assert their own independence of Eire. For 40 years the 200 fisherfolk of Turn and Turbot have maintained an "untaxable republic," refusing to pay taxes to County Galway on the mainland...
...Executive [Committee] which has the right to describe their own party as they wish to do. But this is a very important body. I have been told that it has the power to summon Ministers before it. Evidently Mr. Laski has great power and evidently he is keen to assert it. ... Broadly speaking, it is better that declarations about foreign policy should be made by Ministers of the Crown responsible to the House of Commons...
...each man I could assert whether he would have said these or the other words; of every woman, whether she would then have smiled or so have frowned." Earth Under Glass. Bar Chester Towers shows this gallery packed to the eaves with typically Trollopean peers, squires, High and Low Church clergymen, farmers, shopkeepers, each with his wife and family, all passionately involved in the everyday affairs and intrigues of an English cathedral town. It is, said Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was a great admirer of Trollope, "just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump...
...jurisdiction." Under it, the world organization may reach into a country to get at the causes of war only when all the Big Powers agree that world peace is en dangered. The section finally agreed on gives a future Hitler a little less chance to prevent intervention simply by assert ing that his policies are "domestic." The principle of domestic jurisdiction bore importantly on future colonial questions, and Britain insisted on the restriction...