Spreadeagled poses in humans and animals have always been used to assert dominance, and are most often displayed by men.
It also characterised Taiping as a rock, meaning it could not be used to assert territorial claims over surrounding waters.
If the two troopers stand trial, the picture will be used to assert that officers were encouraged to use race in selecting whom to stop, frisk and arrest, said Jack Arsenault, who represents Mr. Kenna.
Dueling jurisdictions want control of the case, and the new evidence was used to assert that Virginia was the best venue for the first trial of the pair, who could be eligible for the death penalty.
Austin holds that modifiers like "voluntarily" and "involuntarily" are used to assert the respective presence and absence of specific elements in the general machinery of action.
In (7) 'It is raining' is used to assert that a state of affairs obtains (it's raining), and in (8) it is asserted that if that state of affairs obtains, so does another (the streets being wet).
This fits assumptions that are used in popular trainings on social competences, as for example from Hinsch and Pfingsten (2007), where three prototypical types of situations are used (to assert one's right, to maintain relationships, to bid for sympathy).
It is harder to see what it comes to in the case of natural languages, where a single sentence type may be used to assert many different propositions with every outward show of candor and directness in as many different concrete conversational settings.
We found that such homophobic language is used to assert power over other students.
U.S. officials emphasize that the man-made islands do not constitute sovereign territory under international law and cannot be used to assert claims to territorial waters.
The important point is that this evidence should not be used to assert that these differences, or shared bits of "ancient" DNA, support the identification of multiple human "races".
