Word: asserts
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...experience and who can do so with the subtlety and irony needed to drive the point home poses a somewhat more difficult problem. Perhaps for this reason, few essayists burn in the memory as writers of the first class. It is no cheapening of imaginative literature to assert that for every Orwell or for every Thoreau or for every Montaigne there may be a dozen great novelist: instead, it merely points up the frailty of the unaided intellect and the fantastic power of the imagination...
...made a matter of public record at the hearing, it's clear to me that the "assault and battery" was fabricated by Harvard Real Estate, Inc. to intimidate me and to keep me from continuing to assert my rights as a tenant. This is not the first time that HRE has tried to bully a tenant into keeping quiet...
Brandeis could also assert his power directly. Murphy unearths a rift that developed early in the New Deal. The Brain Trust, composed of Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley and Adolf Berle,posed attacking the Depression with big Government and monopolistic enterprises. This ran contrary to the Brandeis )ias against a strong central Government, Big Business in general, and many of the New Deal's collectivist approaches. "Bigness is always badness," became his familiar refrain. At one point, he threatened "to hold the Government control legislation unconstitutional from now on," unless the Administration reversed the Big Business trend in industry...
...prospect of these weapons in the hands of an unfriendly state that has rejected all overtures to join the Camp David peace process. Haig, returning to the U.S. from a trip to Portugal, Spain, Morocco, and Rumania, just as Weinberger was getting back from Amman, hastened to assert that "there was no specific request [from Jordan for U.S. arms], no offer made and no decision made of any kind." He added that "redirect" was "a very incorrect word" to describe U.S. policy toward the Middle East, however it had come to be used...
...power-user." These are real sweet guys. They strut about all day stressing their high rank. When they get a promotion, they immediately stop eating lunch with the guys they've been eating with for years ("Not doing this is one of the main mistakes women make"). They assert their power by going up to secretaries' desks and reading things from the desk without asking...