"I Have Tenure, Therefore I Am" (Week in Review, Jan . 28 laments "philosophy's retreat" into academic specialization, and asserts that philosophy "has come to mean love of tenure" more than love of wisdom.
In an interview, he asserted that the public has come to recognize that Fox News is an ideological outlet.
What does Paul Collier think successive governments have been trying to do for the last decade when he blithely asserts that "The time has come to slow down immigration" (Opinion, 5 November)?
It has come to this: the Scottish government is prepared to deny, deflect, assert and insult in order to win this referendum".
He asserted that "FATA as a federal priority has dropped of the list since the India situation has come to light".
And more progressives have come to recognize and assert the fundamental virtues of Social Security: that it helps to mitigate the increased risk of retirement insecurity, in an age of defined-contribution pensions; that, as a forced-savings program, it helps to overcome behavioral biases that lead people to under-save; and that it's mildly redistributive, universal, and administratively efficient.
Many, including the influential thinktank the European Stability Initiative (ESI), believed that Ashdown's rule turned Bosnia into a European "Raj", and that the time had come to allow Bosnians to assert control over their own affairs, with the HR playing a less proactive role.
As a Protestant pastor, I have come to believe that what we assert about God is of no real importance to that "being".
It is not unusual for such people to assert that they have come to realize that they have forgiven an offender, after all.
"The world philosophers," he asserted, "have come to the conclusion that aid has never been one of the best ways of developing countries".
