(1) The most conspicuous sign is a remarkable increase in the frequency and intensity with which people engage in a specific kind of behaviour or assert a belief.
But, from the start of his ten-year term at the F.B.I., Comey asserted a belief in the agency's right to chart its own course.
It is one thing for a prosecutor to publicly condemn a defendant's actions and assert a belief that he did what he is charged with doing after a trial and conviction, but another to do so before he is indicted by a grand jury.
"A recipient cannot avow the belief dictated" by the government, he wrote, "and then turn around and assert a contrary belief, or claim neutrality, when participating in activities on its own time and dime".
The film's mysteries are derived from Scott and co's research into myth and ancient civilisations, and he asserts a genuine belief in their possibilities.
But as Chief Justice Roberts explained, this condition is coercive because a recipient has to take an affirmative position and is not allowed to get funds "and then turn around and assert a contrary belief, or claim neutrality, when participating in activities on its own time and dime".
The survey was prompted by an intense debate over medical workers who refuse to deliver care that runs contrary to their moral or religious beliefs, asserting a "right of conscience" or "right of refusal". Some pharmacists, for example, refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraceptive "morning-after" pills.
For example, accepting a doxastic or a causal-doxastic theory of the basing relation would appear to be at odds with the fundamental intuition behind causal theories of justification (e.g., reliabilism), which assert that a belief is justified merely by being caused in an appropriate way.
Most of what is generally referred to as political art is really polemical art, simply asserting or reinforcing a belief, or often a blame.
