During his shuttle diplomacy in Libya, Mr. Ilyumzhinov was often dismissed as an improbable ambassador for Moscow because he has, over many years, declined to back down from his publicly asserted belief in space aliens, including a detailed account of an abduction.
By contrast, Strozzi, although a celebrity in her own time, had no way of perpetuating her reputation once she had died and in particular once the 18th and 19th centuries asserted beliefs about the exclusively masculine nature required to produce great music.
We need to assert our belief in the notion that being professional is both positive and necessary: it is crucial to future social work's success.
It is important to assert your belief obviously.
They assert his belief in introspection and the need to overcome the past.
(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.
They are eager to assert their belief in "American exceptionalism," while at the same time describing in vivid detail the gloomy conditions under which voters suffer every day.
It is merely evidence that someone, when in possession of a spray can, wished to assert their belief in the millionaire former premier's mendacity.
It is unfair for Mr. Holland to assert his belief that Mr. Muti does not have "a mystical bone in his body".
There is no reading of Christianity which does not assert the belief that mankind, while part of the animal kingdom, has a unique vocation and potential to enhance the rest of creation, or else to destroy it.
More than 100,000 people joined spontaneous demonstrations in Paris and 100 other towns and cities on Wednesday night – not to insult Muslims or call for police repression but to assert their belief in the French "republican values" of openness, freedom and decency.
