Moses's efforts had frequently glided forward thanks to assertions of expert knowledge unavailable to the general public and the skilful manipulation of civic processes.
But what is true in a discourse on whole is the sum of assertions put forward by participants.
But there is also a tremendous forward thrust, a piling of assertion upon assertion, of proverb upon proverb, which gives the poem its overall tempo.
But Bloom questions the assertion, put forward in a brochure on cross-dressing, that the practice is simply something that men who are unusually in touch with their feminine side like to do, a "compulsive behavior" but not a "sickness".
However, many cybersecurity experts have come forward to dispute this assertion.
When used in this press release, the words "can," "will," "intends," "expects," "is expected," similar expressions and any other statements that are not historical facts are intended to identify those assertions as forward-looking statements.
He said that he had not come forward sooner with the assertion about seeing who shot the officer out of fear, and that he had decided to "come in today and just let the truth be known".
A concurrent use application may be filed with respect to a trademark which is already registered or otherwise in use by another party, but may be allowed to go forward based on the assertion that the existing use can co-exist with the new registration without causing consumer confusion.
A related, but much more subtle, assertion was put forward by two Swedish economists, Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin.
But that's the nature of a declaration: it is a manifesto, a way forward, sometimes wildly uncertain, an assertion of freedom from fear.
