Flat characters cannot be tragic, he asserts, they need to be comic.
Supermarket executives asserted that they needed to reduce pay to compete with Wal-Mart as it expanded in California.
But by the late 1980s some academic disciplines had begun to assert that they needed one-of-a-kind large facilities like LIGO to remain globally competitive.
Tanzanian midwives describe very difficult working condition and asserted that they need help and support in the form of being seen and acknowledged at work [ 5].
Japanese officials assert that they need to study the feeding patterns of the whales to determine which species need to be protected.
Ridiculing the proposal for a $12.50 wage, many cleaning companies assert that they need to keep wages low so they can win contracts through competitive bidding.
Others can assert that they need a gun for "personal protection," but they must submit evidence, such as police reports or witness statements, to back up the claim.
The people who so resolutely proclaim their own creative energy will scarcely assert that they need a hothouse for its flowering.
HFT firms assert that they need the advantages to make up for the risk they take on as they help the markets operate smoothly.
Although Monsanto and other agrochemical companies assert that they need the current patent system to invent better seeds, the counterargument is that splicing an already existing gene or other DNA into a plant and thereby transferring a new trait to that plant is not a novel invention.
There are those who can still find a place within traditional forms of religion and there are those who assert they don't need anything spiritual at all.
