To assert standard or statutory self-defense, he must offer some evidence beyond the mere assertion.
In an editor's note, Mr. Solotaroff announced that his publication would studiously avoid "the tendency toward cult and coterie by which literary magazines usually define their particular territory and assert their standards".
Many people will assert their standards, opinions, and ideals.
This summer, Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, sent a new and stronger standard to the White House — igniting a fierce lobbying campaign by industry groups asserting that the standards would require impossibly costly investments in new pollution controls and throw people out of work.
At first, North Vietnamese officials asserted the standard line that they were winning the war and would not compromise with their South Vietnamese adversaries or South Vietnam's American backers.
Here, "nondegenerate" asserts its standard meaning that all frequency terms under consideration are unique, i.e., ω i ≠ ω j for all j ≠ i.
The difference between narrow and broad meritocratic norms is that the latter assert a standard for assessing social arrangements in so far as they attach rewards and remunerations to positions and fix the extent of social inequality.
Finally, it is asserted that standard base excess (SBE) is unstable as partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PCO2) changes.
Some white men who work at the plant complain bitterly that there is now a double standard, asserting that the company ignores provocative behavior by women and minorities.
The inquiry has already become a political football, with former Vice President Dick Cheney issuing a statement to The Weekly Standard asserting, "The activities of the C.I.A. in carrying out the policies of the Bush Administration were directly responsible for defeating all efforts by Al Qaeda to launch further mass casualty attacks against the United States".
