By putting their faith in numbers, horses and playing cards, gamblers assert, in effect, that luck matters in life, and that net worth has little or nothing to do with moral worth.In the 18th century, respectable folk were shocked by the way people of all classes and colours mingled promiscuously at cockfights.
If a speaker makes an ironic untruthful statement, then "Through this presentation of himself as insincerely asserting he presents himself as believing" the opposite of what he says, which is "capacity to… assert in-effect" (Simpson 1992, 630).
"Look, it was a rhetorical response," Sanders said, asserting, in effect, that the President's words have no meaning.
In a 1989 case about parental rights, Michael H. v. Gerald D., the majority opinion, written by Scalia, asserted, in effect, that the due-process clause protected only what the Framers of the Constitution intended it to protect, and nothing more.
His myth of eternal violence — his vision of men "invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them" — asserts, in effect, that rebellion is pointless because this is how it will always be.
In the Newtonian form it asserts, in effect, that, within a windowless laboratory freely falling in a uniform gravitational field, experimenters would be unaware that the laboratory is in a state of nonuniform motion.
The last sentence of this quotation which asserts, in effect, that coverings always exist for the collection of nonempty subsets of any (nonempty) set is Zermelo's first formulation of the Axiom of Choice[1].
Feinberg's principle reads as follows: "it is always a good reason in support of a proposed criminal prohibition that it would probably be an effective way of preventing serious offense...to persons other than the actor, and that it is probably a necessary means to that end...The principle asserts, in effect, that the prevention of offensive conduct is properly the state's business" (1985, 1).
In other words, Fiorina has moved from asserting in effect that Planned Parenthood "harvested" (a loaded word) tissue from a still-live fetus, to claiming that Planned Parenthood deliberately aborts live fetuses for that purpose.
When Steven Spielberg depicted the gory horrors of war in "Saving Private Ryan," its effect was to assert that, in effect, we — their descendants — were the children of demigods, of virtual superheroes who had been through Hell on Earth to keep us safe; the idea meshes with his career-long cinematic theme and tone of filial piety.
Today, however, Mr. Schundler asserted that, in effect, he had been misunderstood for months: he said he had been speaking only about legislation that would allow people with a "justifiable need" to carry a concealed weapon to obtain such permits -- such as "a woman who is receiving death threats".
