But as Republican officials scrambled to assert a coherent direction for their candidate's campaign, Trump himself may have already offered the clearest sign of his strategy.
(1) The most conspicuous sign is a remarkable increase in the frequency and intensity with which people engage in a specific kind of behaviour or assert a belief.
Law enforcement officials need warrants to open the mail, although President George W. Bush asserted in a signing statement in 2007 that the federal government had the authority to open mail without warrants in emergencies or in foreign intelligence cases.
Because the cultural myths about rights powerfully suggest that asserting rights is a sign of selfishness and conceit, people are understandingly reluctant to individually and in isolation assert their rights (pp. 163) With this in mind, the legalization of ADs may appear not as an authentication of the documents but rather as an instigation of "rights talk".
Many of them shared the view that the prison should be closed, but had criticized the Bush administration for frequently issuing signing statements asserting a right to bypass laws.
Saying 'there's no sign humans have caused climate change' is not stating an opinion, it's asserting a factual inaccuracy".
All of which is further evidence for the wisdom in that line from Hamlet about the lady protesting too much: strenuously asserting something is often a sign that, really, you doubt it, or believe the opposite.
On Friday, for example, Politico reported the EC's antitrust investigators have been asking Google's rivals and customers to hand over confidential evidence in recent weeks — asserting this is "usually" a sign the department is ready to escalate a probe.
To complicate matters further Proton's management, in an effort to assert control, has signed vague letters of intent with carmakers including Peugeot and China's Chery.
Police are pointing to evidence of a simple robbery by a violent gang, but conservationists assert there were signs that efforts to stem egg poaching may have led to the killing.
