Word: asserts
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...distance that one of them can travel in a day, so the margin for error is presumably considerably larger than a precise figure like 17% implies. What makes such numbers imaginary is that most of them are basically collections of someone's estimates of the unknowable. We can assert with some confidence that there are, say, four birds on a branch. As the numbers get larger, we still believe in them, but with less reason...
...surely the especial task of the youth force of this venerable university. A government is almost always a dull institution, and its pride in pragmatism often blurs its vision of the human values and obligations. Yet tradition counts. The America of Lincoln and Franklin, of Emerson and Whitman may assert itself, and your great country's innate radiant faith in democracy and Human Rights may well flash against the slate-colored wisdom of low-flying polities. The declaration of independence of Bangla Desh is most likely to arouse the people whose inspiring history is founded on the Declaration of American...
...disagree with those who seek to condemn a member of the University by slogan and denunciation and still assert that the question of war crimes is an important one. Indeed, whether the Government Department Faculty realizes it or not, war crimes have become a topic of quite polite and scholarly discussion. In the most recent issue of the New Republic, Professor Richard Falk, certainly no "vigilante," urges the impeachment of President Nixon for three types of war crimes, including crimes against humanity (genocide). It may offend the members of the Government Department that some of their colleagues might be accused...
...quite amusing to watch Hans Kung, as a theologian, sawing away at the branch he is sitting on. For if the propositions of faith are as inadequate as he claims them to be, he is surely not entitled to assert that God is infallible, or that faith is not the acceptance of infallible propositions but a commitment to Christ and his message. And why bother with Christ's message if he could have been mistaken...
...even these who disagree most sharply with Professor Huntington's views on the Vietnam war and with his policy recommendations, express our indignation at the claim by any group of self-appointed vigilantes to the right to pillory those whom they choose to designate as "war criminals." We assert our determination to protect academic freedom, and most specifically, Professor Huntington's or any other teacher's right to teach without disruption, intimidation or slander. We, the undersigned members of the Government Department, invite all our colleagues and students to condemn a campaign whose success would destroy the very foundation...