Suppose, nonetheless, that it is true that in general (or perhaps even always), that speakers do make commitments when asserting.
Picard rejects Q's offer, even when Q asserts there are beings far more powerful than the Federation's current enemies.
Not because the ruckus of their live show is harmless merriment, even when they're asserting otherwise.
Ms. Kleopina's Natasha is initially touching in her insecurity among Andrey's more well-born family, and even when she begins asserting her authority in the household, you never quite turn against her.
I've heard the same tone from a number of senior pharma executives as well; even when trying to assert their belief in people and passion, they manage to do so in a fashion that seems remarkably detached from both.
It is so skewed against accountability that even when Administration officials assert "no such conversations occurred", they still invoke Executive Privilege to keep from testifying.
Richard B. Kendall, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, which had sued the Navy over the exercises, insisted that courts have an important role to play in protecting whales and dolphins even when the executive branch asserts a national security interest.
Goldstein's chronological contortions artfully mirror the relativistic ideas of time that she so lucidly explains, while the quantum notion of nonlocality ("whereby particles, having once been subjected to quantum entanglement, will forever after continue to assert, even when widely separated, instantaneous influences over one another") finds expression in the novel's obscured plot elements.
This seemed to indicate that even when a port was not asserting any voltage, simply being a connected input causes the monitor to receive the RGB signals late, yielding a jagged edge and sometimes even static.
Individual moments — this line break, that bit of syntax — fascinate even when individual poems fail to assert themselves as memorable.
