Is it a moment where culture needs to assert its values?
The GOP spends too much time defending itself against what it is not rather than asserting its core values.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He asserted the value of Latin culture in the role of father of Latin prose literature.
Usually practitioners articulated an intuition that debates about the ancients were meaningless, "to the opinions of the ancients on contagion, we do not think them of much value," and asserted the value of empiric evidence: "we never, indeed, could see the very great importance of referring back to the ancients for evidence of that which passes before our own eyes".
Again and again, the movie, "Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train," shows its subject asserting the value of nonviolent civil disobedience, which he calls a necessity, and the need for "people's movements" to effect social change.
The decision to keep it asserts the value that apparently unexceptional buildings have for the area.
