An asylum claim begins with the assertion that a person, or a family, is afraid to go home.
It began with the assertion that "News International has completed a thorough investigation into the various allegations made since the Guardian story broke on Wednesday".
The argument begins with the assertion that ordinary persons have a clear grasp of certain concepts e.g., the concept of equality.
The rhetoric of modern tiny-house living begins with the assertion that big houses, aside from being wasteful and environmentally noxious, are debtors' prisons.
"In Memoriam" begins with the assertion that the Sept. 11 attack was "the most documented event in history"; by the end of the documentary, that seems incontrovertible.
Nowhere is the commitment to privacy stronger than in Germany, where article one of the country's constitution, the Basic Law, begins with the assertion: "Human dignity is inviolable.
The Daodejing, the great work of Chinese philosophy composed about 300 bce, begins with the assertion that the Dao that cannot be named is equivalent to the Dao that can be.
That report, from a Web site called The Lahore Times, which is set up to look like a replica of The New York Times, begins with the assertion that the "United States of America was behind the attack" on the schoolgirl.
In a 2011 article about the tiny-house movement, Alec Wilkinson explained its aims: The rhetoric of modern tiny-house living begins with the assertion that big houses, aside from being wasteful and environmentally noxious, are debtors' prisons.
The advertisement by the professor, Dr. Pierre-Marie Robitaille, begins with the assertion that his work would not "stand any chance of publication in the peer reviewed physics literature".
