Strier argues that Donne's rationale for publishing the Devotions matches his rationale for publishing a sermon, the Encaenia, the same year, to assert the importance of "places, and of dayes, and of all outward meanes", because he felt some sense of urgency about what he had to say.
Like Greene, Herzog would presumably assert that the place of his films is no invented country, but simply the world as in fact it is.
General Vahidi asserted the episode took place in Iranian airspace but did not specify where.
Young men once headed to the Ivy League to acquire the patina of high culture that would allow them to move in the circles of power — or if they were to the manner born, to assert their place at the top of the social heap by flashing what they already knew.
According to the organisers, mapping is a way for the favela to assert its place in the city.
Cemeteries, funerals, the legacies and possessions of the dead are featured prominently in Mr. Cox's pictorial scheme, not to eclipse the living but to assert their place in the continuum.
He is keen to assert his place in the pecking order, but the real blow comes when his nephew Hermes turns up and slyly announces that humans no longer believe in the god of the seas any more than they believe in Father Christmas.
The challenge for Taiwan is to not only continue to assert its place on the international stage and push for inclusion in world bodies, such as the World Health Organization, but also to open up trade links with other countries.
China, like Japan in 1964 and South Korea in 1988, wanted to assert its place in the world.
Behind the scenes, however, it's the powerhouse of knowledge and respect that age brings that helps you to assert your place in the industry.
