Moscow ought not to be allowed to assert control over the export of Caspian energy through Georgia.
Last month, as the case was approaching trial, Mr. Lowell wrote to the judge and asked that despite the state's earlier waiver, Mr. Pataki be allowed to assert an "advice of counsel defense".
Barry argues that 'nobody is to be allowed to assert the superiority of his own conception of the good over those of other people as a reason for building into the framework for social cooperation special advantages for it.' (Barry 1995, p. 160).
Under federal law, supplement makers are allowed to assert that their products affect the "structure or function" of the body.
Mr Clegg writes: "There is much to play for, but a real risk that this opportunity for modernisation will be lost if the hardliners are allowed to assert their position unchallenged.
The majority's abiding concern is that if a corporate officer who is the target of a subpoena is allowed to assert the privilege, it will impede the Government's power to investigate corporations, unions, and partnerships, to uncover and prosecute white-collar crimes, and otherwise to enforce its visitatorial powers.
Spencer held that "society advances where its fittest members are allowed to assert their fitness with the least hindrance, and where the least fitted are not artificially prevented from dying out".There is, however, another, simpler explanation than Mr Krass's for the contradictions: Carnegie was a complete and utter humbug, just as ruthlessly self-serving in philanthropy as in business.
The same goes for makeup, she says: Because the gymnasts are older, "they're given a little more permission to play with makeup than they used to have, and they're a little older, so maybe they're allowed to assert themselves a little better".
University officials ridicule the notion that undergraduate advisers should be allowed to unionize, asserting that being a resident adviser is a privilege, not a job.
Many Republican leaders say public employees should not be allowed to bargain collectively, asserting that it pushes up costs for taxpayers and impedes management's flexibility.
In a message apparently intended to convince a skeptical German public that Greece and other struggling economies should not be allowed to default, Mrs. Merkel asserted that Germany's own economic recovery could be endangered.
