"I can understand why Ahmadinejad would make that assertion to divert the world's attention from the abuse of the civil liberties and civil rights of the people of Iran," Mr. Biden said.
According to Lovelock, Darwin was given the wrong geological information, and so thought that the earth's environment was constant, leading to his assertion that organisms adapt to the world around them.
To this end, he gave the issue a characteristically linguistic turn by asking how the terms and sentences that, in scientific or in everyday language, serve to express assertions about the world are related to those terms and sentences by which the data of immediate experience can be described.
Most of his more recent pieces, which are cast in bronze or made of wood and then painted, have tripod bases or triple images, an allusion to the Talmudic assertion that the world stands on three pillars: Torah, avodah and acts of loving kindness.
In recent years the Founder whose reputation has been tossed most dramatically across this swoonish arc is Thomas Jefferson, simultaneously the author of the most lyrical rendition of the American promise to the world and the most explicit assertion of the supposed biological inferiority of African Americans.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gives up after trying to correct rapper BoB's assertion that the world is flat ("No matter how high in elevation you are … the horizon is always eye level … sorry cadets … I didn't wanna believe it either").
Blair's frequent assertion that it is "the world that should be apologising to him rather than him apologising to the world" (appendices 67,886 223,863) seems to be entirely consistent with a homicidal sociopath.
Take the assertion that the world is on a path to a multipolar system with China, India and Russia plus various businesses, tribes, religious groups — even criminal networks — vying for influence.
Tony Abbott's top business adviser, Maurice Newman, has been invited to meet climate scientists following his assertion that the world is in fact in danger of cooling, rather than warming.
