And Draper does not discuss the most profound example of Bush's extreme assertion of executive power: torture.
Boniface responded in 1302 with the bull Unam Sanctam ("One Holy Church"), the most extreme assertion by any pope of the supremacy of spiritual over secular authority.
That may sound like an extreme assertion, but the new book by Wills, a Pulitzer Prize winner who has written extensively about Christianity and the church, says that at the start, Christianity not only didn't have priests but opposed them.
Despite the extreme assertions — or wishful thinking — from apocalyptic commentators, reports of the death of United States Treasury obligations have been greatly exaggerated.
And because I reject the Bush administration's equally extreme assertions of executive power at the expense of civil liberties, I have been engaged in trying to improve the current legislation.
On 26 January 2014, the Observer published the following clarification: "I don't go out here on my own any more", an interview with Mid Staffordshire hospital trust whistleblower Julie Bailey, (New Review, 27 October 2013, page 6) referred to her opponents claiming that more extreme assertions, such as patients being left to drink from flower vases, were lurid media myths.
The cause of much of the recent hyperbole: The current dispiriting presidential campaign where there is a premium on extreme assertions combined with cable TV "news" stations where stories are always "breaking".
At the furthest possible extreme, dark assertions of this sort could mean something nuts like laying the ground for the institution of martial law, or of major Russian military operations against the Russian public in the event of an uprising — but that's so unlikely as to verge on the absurd.
Many find his assertion extreme, but not without conceding that even if there is a bubble, it seems quite different from the 2000 dot-com one.
Reviewing a galley of "The Phenomenon of Life" in the journal Architectural Record in May 2002, William S. Saunders, the editor of The Harvard Design Magazine and an admirer of Mr. Alexander's early work, called the book "full of contradictions, foggy generalities and extreme and unsupported assertions".
Another technique, pervasive on both Fox and CNN, was to echo Republican claims of an "extreme makeover" -- the assertion that what viewers were seeing wasn't the true face of the party.
