A plot is hatched by another character to rescue the country from crisis: is she simply a schemer or someone asserting a person's right not to be thought plastic because she is pretty?
Applied to persons (it can equally well be applied to other persisting things), it asserts that persons have different properties, in particular, different modal properties, from the summations of person-stages with which the perdurance theory identifies them.
For it allows one to assert that persons and their moral properties are conventionally real.
In seeking State Department immunity, NARA said it was possible that the Iraqi materials could be subjected to U.S. judicial action, "by persons asserting ownership [of the items], or by persons seeking satisfaction of outstanding claims or judgments against the Iraqi government".
In a quantitative study I ran in 2007 for 1,000 randomly chosen trees, 99.2 percent of those trees simply asserted each person's parentage with no documentary evidence or proof argument.
That hard blow shows he's no cheek-turning Christian but a person asserting himself in the world.
Without actual ouster, he said, the law allows a co-owner to assert a claim of adverse possession if the person asserting the claim has been in continuous, exclusive possession for 20 years or more.
They further believe in the transmigration of souls, asserting that every person must pass through 1,001 incarnations, in the course of which he receives the proper reward for his actions.
As he left jurors to decide the case, Mr. Ellyson seemed to define it as a matter of a powerful person, asserting his high position, versus ordinary people, like themselves.
Thinking of ideas as property creates "a very powerful metaphor that tips the scales in the direction of the person asserting their property rights have been violated," said Pam Samuelson, co-director of the Center for Law and Technology at the University of California at Berkeley.
