Nagel asserts that, like values, morality, and even the origin of life itself, conscious resists mechanistic, part-to-whole, atomistic explanation.
For example, in addition to the reasons stated above, the respondent asserts that, like any business, an investor-owned utility has an interest in protecting its market.
They assert that like a corporation head or a police commander, the Chancellor and his superintendents should have the power to demote or dismiss bad principals and to reassign star principals to schools where they can do the most good.
The Met has released scant information about the elaborate production Mr. Lepage is planning, though in a recent interview Mr. Gelb asserted that, like Mr. Schenk, Mr. Lepage is a "great storyteller".
Speaking about a fifth of the world's population, he asserts that "Muslims liked to point out" and "Muslim girls toe the line at home" and "most Muslims do not seem to grasp the fact that".
Discussing whether his character could ever find "The One", John Barrowman asserts that Jack "likes everybody, and his love for each person is different".
And he asserts that speech, like written language, was a cultural invention and not a biological fait accompli.
He also asserts that neoconservatives like Mr. Wolfowitz and Richard Perle began tutoring Mr. Bush in foreign policy, semisecretly, in late 1998 and early 1999, laying the philosophical groundwork for the Iraq war before the 2000 presidential campaign was well under way.
In this passage, Plato asserts that particulars like Helen, because she is not the Form but rather is a material particular, is related to, or 'tied to' Beauty in virtue of what he calls 'partaking.' Beauty Itself, on the other hand, not being something 'other than Beauty', does not partake of Beauty it simply is beautiful.
Yet it asserts that a guy like McCabe behaved like anyone from the early 1970s trying to make a movie - like Warren Beatty, in fact.
Mr. Paul asserts that President Obama would like the committee to fail because it would help him get re-elected.
