In "Dignity for the Dying" (editorial, May 29), you correctly assert that "it is high time" for the legislature to enact a surrogate health care decision-making bill in New York.
While critics might say that Google is manipulating its results to hinder competitors, Google might assert that it is tweaking its model to provide the best results to consumers.
As for the pharmaceutical association, its critics assert that it is so panic-stricken over the prospect of the government cutting into its profits that industry lobbying will only intensify.
"It is facile to assert that it is the solo nature of its production that allows an artwork to speak to others," he says.
Doctors may assert that it is they who manage the medical treatments.
To assert that it is inflames, but does not advance, the debate.
"And, indeed, many clients do assert that it is a boring utility again.
Some proponents of Prism assert that it is an essential tool against terrorism.
The defenders of rigidly invariant spelling assert that it is a repository of authority and expressive elegance.
To say that the event is future is to assert that it is later than this utterance.
Palestinians assert that it is collective punishment, disrupting the lives of thousands of Arabs to protect a few hundred Jews.
