This paper argues that the worth of health education compared with other forms of health promotion has been grossly underestimated and it is time to re-assert its importance.
This narrow notion of grammar has amounted to a peculiar snobbery: the more obscure and seemingly complex the grammatical rule, the more we tend to assert its importance and to esteem those who have managed to master it.
Take his disquisition on detail, which comes down first to asserting its importance, then to questioning its all-importance, and then, after serving up a list of some of his very favorite fictional details, to defining the apt, exquisite detail much as a judge once defined obscenity: as something he knows when he sees it.
"This is the fantasy of a provincial security agency down in Kerman wishing to assert its national importance.
Russia has legacy ties to its Syrian client, and the Russian state remains a big vainglorious beast that likes to assert its geopolitical importance when given an opportunity.
To my dying breath I would assert its fundamental importance to Britain and its profound contribution to the country – not just by way of the musical life it has supported and grown, especially through its commissioning of composers, but also through a significant relationship with drama and documentary.
Similarly, it is hard to see why he asserts "the importance of Christianity in our country" when "the Christian values of responsibility, hard work, charity, compassion, humility, and love are shared by people of every faith and none".
With Ground Beneath Her, Arora asserts the importance of a story's life after it's replaced by the next breaking headline.
Richard Powers compares poorly with these writers: his fictional work constantly asserts the importance of the human while never quite succeeding in enacting it.
Under a degree of fire for the suggestion that women should expect men to pay for everything, the following year they released Independent Women Part I – a song that asserts the importance of financial independence for women: "I depend on me," it insists.
