"Social sharing", he asserts, represents "a third mode of organising economic production, alongside markets and the state".
The Hollywood spotlight may not exactly be the place for shrinking violets, but this year's batch of Best Picture nominees is marked by the swagger with which they depict, affirm, assert, represent.
Mrs. Clinton's pollster, Mark Penn, said the findings reflected his polls, and asserted they represented a rebuke to the way Mr. Lazio has conducted his campaign.
But even if Mrs. Clinton does win in Kentucky, Mr. Obama is likely to end the day with a majority of the delegates awarded through the nominating contests, a threshold his campaign has long asserted would represent a definitive judgment by voters.
Mr. Richman's clients hold $2.3 million of G.M.'s $27 billion in bonds, though they assert they represent a wider group of individual bondholders that owns more than $400 million worth of bonds.
The Obama administration, Brooks asserts, will represent "a valedictocracy".
Given DirecTV's public statements that it spends $10 billion a year on programming, Viacom asserted that it represented only 5 percent of the company's programming costs.
The callers, who usually asserted that they represented technology companies like Microsoft and Dell and security companies like Symantec and McAfee, would try either to sell virus-protection software or to get the consumer to allow remote access to his computer so that the caller could then "fix" it, for fees of $45 to $450.
Galton asserted that Jews represented a lower racial form, and that they were easily recognizable by their appearance.
A spokesman for the supreme council, Nuri al-Safi, appeared on the Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera today and denounced the raids, asserting that they represented a pattern of intimidation against the political representatives of the Shiite community, which represents a majority of the population in Iraq.
