On questions of human dignity and human ends, we tend to sputter and assert, setting out propositions that are difficult to justify to those who don't share them.
But the case he makes is based on an asserted set of facts — facts that are open to challenge and dependent on neither revelation nor church writ.
The results of this study suggest that the consonance pattern could be an expected outcome in any system containing the asserted set of features (including the higher animals).
"Working here is way more uplifting and way less stressful," my source asserts while setting out huge jars of top-shelf herb for me to sniff.
The authors assert that they "set the goal of improving the quality of life of these patients", and imply again that a pregnancy followed by a live birth represents success in these terms.
It was those games, she asserts now, that set them on the road to tennis stardom.
Seeking more than $50 million, the lawsuit asserts that they set out to damage Mr. Dean and, "by extension," Mrs. Bachmann.
He asserted he was set to be part of the Sept. 11 plot by flying a fifth airplane into the White House.
Drawing inspiration from writers Kodwo Eshun and Greg Tate, as well as Geoff Ryman's mundane science-fiction manifesto, Syms starts by saying: "We the mundane Afrofuturists, being alternately pissed off and bored, need a means of asserting a different set of values to begin imagining the future".
In the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville asserted that what set the U.S. apart from his native France was its absence of feudal traditions.
Some assert that this sets up the plot as a rape-revenge story, but that would imply that the primary motivation for the main character's actions is revenge; this is not the case.
