Any chance Turkey could join the EU by 2020, as Brexit campaigners have asserted, went up in smoke on Wednesday after the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, signed a draconian new law that in effect demolishes any notion that his country is a fully functioning, western-style democracy.
That, Beijing asserts, goes against the basic Olympian principle that the Games should be apolitical.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, this program asserted, is going to be an orchestra of the 21st century, and it has a boldly modern Frank Gehry hall to match its mission.
The Australians suggested that the Yanks, who have won the last three Olympics, were smarting over finishing third in the 2006 world championships, and were trying to assert themselves going into the Olympics.
On one page Auden's "Moon Landing" asserts that going to the moon is a crude phallic adventure, a boys' game of conquest, while on the next Gwyneth Lewis sees the spaceship as "a flower of fire" as her astronaut cousin takes off in the space shuttle.
Murphy hit the side-netting from a tight angle soon afterwards and Jonathan Parr drove left-footed across the face of the goal before the Bees slowly began to assert themselves going forward.
Meanwhile, new resistant bacteria, Moellering asserted, aren't going to go away.
Between 2005 and 2010, the complaint asserts, $2.7 million went to Supermarnet, a company Mr. Shen owned, to provide meals to the preschoolers.
The imported radical post-modernism which completely denies objectivity is more likely to have resonance in Chinese traditional culture, which exaggerating the subjectivity and asserting "anything goes" (Liu et al. 2009).
When marijuana is legal, he asserts, crime goes down, suicide rates fall, health benefits are experienced, and tax revenues rise.
