To Shimi and his friends, James belongs to a limitless, exploitable and renewable group, whose members can always be shipped back where they came from if they assert their humanity.
Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban on her way to school in Afghanistan, has shown to the world the violence women can often face if they assert their human right to be educated (to be human, one might say).
Mr Gove added: "Teachers worry that if they assert a degree of discipline, one determined maverick pupil will say 'I know my rights' and so teachers become reticent about asserting themselves.
"They are punished if they assert themselves".
If they assert that the family summarily discarded them, but can think of nothing they've ever done that might warrant this extreme reaction, you're probably dealing with an individual who suffers from an extreme mental disorder (whether life-inflicted, or innate).
Accordingly, some have argued that the constructive interpretation view engages with the other methodological views mentioned above only if it denies what they assert: viz., that legal theories attempt to provide an explanation (perhaps of some particular kind e.g., reductive) of the actual nature of law (or perhaps our concept of it).
They assert that if the Iraqis take over too quickly, the beneficiaries will be the former exiles, a group that has the least support among Iraqis.
But if they are asserting such things that is, expressing their beliefs on the matter then they cannot simply be expressing their emotions.
It is not only threatening personally, but we're seeing a real chilling effect on woman's ability to speak out, especially if they are asserting a feminist opinion.
So the bears have been outsmarted and the bulls still need a higher price if they are to assert that the gold doldrums are over.
