Some poets of color feel that Goldsmith is subtly denying selves that they wish to assert and explore.
It is merely evidence that someone, when in possession of a spray can, wished to assert their belief in the millionaire former premier's mendacity.
When the institutional presence of the Catholic Church in the United States began to grow in the early 1800s, the stage was set for showdowns between the lay trustees, who wished to maintain their power, and the newly resident bishops and priests, who wished to assert theirs.
Consequently, many loyal Anglicans wished to assert that the Church of England was not dependent on the state and that it gained its authority from the fact that it taught Christian truth and its bishops were in the apostolic succession (i.e., able to trace their authority and office back in an unbroken line to the Apostles).
Unlike previous cases questioning the validity of a surrogacy contract, the challenge here came not from the carrier who now wished to assert rearing rights (see In re Baby M and Calvert v. Johnson) but from the wife (the intended rearing mother).
Other ideas, critical of the papal supremacy were held, not only by Lollards, but by those who wished to assert the supremacy of the secular state over the church but also by conciliarists such as Thomas More and, initially, Cranmer.
The medieval chronicler Gervase of Canterbury stated that Stephen wanted to weaken Theobald's standing with the papacy, but Stephen also would have wished to assert his authority over the English Church by insisting on the right to limit papal contact with the English bishops, something that his predecessors had always done.
Whether the courage needed to confront disapproval and even violence for the sake of telling the truth and removing an unjust stigma is as "incompatible with military service" as the Joint Chiefs wished to assert was a question my own experience made me address with urgent passion.
Meanwhile, emerging nations wishing to assert their growing wealth and prestige have made a point of acquiring aircraft carriers.
"This is the fantasy of a provincial security agency down in Kerman wishing to assert its national importance.
If states wish to assert their own claims, they use national laws which can be enforced in their own courts.
