Fronting a band that occasionally mistook itself for the Time, he never asserted himself, even though his versions of "So Sick" and "Do You" were sharp.
Friedman believed that Fed policy rather than changes in government spending should be used to stabilize the economy, but he never asserted that an increase in government spending cannot, under any circumstances, increase employment.
He never asserted categorically that government for and of the people must, or even can, work.
Dr. King also fought for fair wages, employment and housing for blacks in the South to curb poverty, but he never asserted that high-quality schools would be ineffective without those things being in place.
Mr. Mason said he had never asserted that the unions were responsible for the sabotage, suggesting that individual strikers may have acted on their own.
In response, Ms. Reinhart and Mr. Rogoff have acknowledged the coding error, defended their other decisions and claimed that they never asserted that debt necessarily causes slow growth.
Mr. Hammer puts in the time, but never asserts that he knows this world and his black characters from the inside out, a wise choice for a white boy playing the blues.
But the story never asserts itself in any dramatic or comedic or even home-movie fashion.
Anne Hathaway, as Fantine, gets her teeth pulled, her hair chopped, and her body violated in a coffin box — a Joan of Arc who only suffers, a pure victim who never asserts herself.
When describing the components of things in the world, Philolaus always talks in terms of limiters and unlimiteds and never asserts that things are made or arise from numbers (cf. Fr. 1).
