Sentence examples for assertion of death from inspiring English sources

But it hardly follows that the assertion of death is itself a moral claim.

He sees Putnam as an influence on Freud through negation, arguing that Freud's assertion of a death instinct in "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" was a rebuke to Putnam's optimism.

After viewing his son's dressed body, Cancellor's father accepted Roberts' assertion for cause of death and agreed to the burial.

Like Mr. Sarkozy and Mrs. Merkel in their assertions of the death of multiculturalism — not disputed here — the prime minister has offered nothing of sufficient size and impact to fill its notional space and deal with the scale of the problem of Muslim immigration.

The government's assertion of zero collateral deaths meets with deep skepticism from many independent experts.

But it was hard not to see it symbolically, as a defiant assertion of life in the face of death.

Would a masked ball on Oct. 31 be an assertion of life in the face of death, of the will to go on?

Moreover, in their embrace of lawlessness and in their assertion of power over life and death, mobsters could seem masters of the very forces of chance to which gamblers here are in thrall.

In the fourth episode of the serial he mentions that he never reached his twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, tying in with The Quatermass Memoirs later assertion of his wife's early death.

Funeral games would seem to have been, in essence, prophylactic assertions of vitalizing energy in the presence of death.

Scotland Yard's inquiry also found no evidence of Williams's fingerprints on the padlock of the bag or the rim of the bath, which the coroner last year said supported her assertion of "third-party involvement" in the death.