Is it a moment where culture needs to assert its values?
Proponents of CoQ10, and there have long been many particularly in the natural medicine world, have asserted its value in treating high cholesterol, high blood pressure, periodontal disease, heart failure, low energy, and more.
In addition, the EU should back the guarantee of Russian language rights in Ukraine - not because Moscow is demanding it, but because the West badly needs to assert its own values in the face of the growing power of neo-fascist groups in Ukraine.
In the same way, the United States -- bold but not arrogant, newly armed with the will to assert its interests and values -- is no stranger and is unafraid in this world we never made.
The GOP spends too much time defending itself against what it is not rather than asserting its core values.
Because the bureaucratic politics approach has most often been applied to studies of crisis decision making, critics have also asserted that its value for explaining ordinary policy making, particularly over time, is limited.
These rituals also empowered the community to welcome the warrior home: To listen to his battle tales, to appreciate his sacrifice, and to assert his value in society.
The great Romantic essayists – Hazlitt, Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle – used it to assert the value of the individual human voice in a world increasingly felt to be dominated by "abstraction".
It needs to assert the value to British society of membership of the EU instead of supinely abdicating all responsibility for the issue.
It also allows us to assert the value of the politics that we stand for," she said.
In defending the humanities, perhaps we need to assert the value of that pause, whether it be attending a performance of a Balanchine ballet, a Mozart opera, a Beethoven symphony, or a blues concert by Buddy Guy.
