It's more like "in spite of".
At several moments Raj asserts that in spite of growing up overseas, he is "Hindustani through and through".
After the storm passed, we went on a miles-long walk across the bridge into Manhattan and through neighborhoods where the power was out but life was trying somehow to assert itself in spite of everything.
But Rumford, of Gravitational Media, says he's confident the free hand of the Facebook market will separate flash-in-the-pan applications from the truly useful and in spite of the proliferation of applications, he asserts there is plenty of room for more.
During a visit to Mumbai in January 2017, I was able to sit down with Jiyo Parsi administrators and Parsi community leaders, who revealed that Parsis' popularity enabled them to receive explicit government support without public scrutiny and in spite of a rising Hindu nationalist ideology, which asserts that to be truly Indian, one must also be Hindu.
"In spite of" the Israeli attacks on Palestinians, Mr. Arafat asserts in the letter, "I am exerting 100percentt effort to stop Palestinian operations against Israel".
Thus, in spite of our explicit disclaimers, Harris takes us to assert that scientific progress is for the worse all things considered, rather than simply in one respect.
The paper concludes by asserting the value of ecological embeddedness as a concept, in spite of the observed limitations of embeddedness in other contexts and the challenges that are associated with its ecological application.
I was extremely protective of him because, in spite of the shabby treatment he was subjected to, he seemed unwilling to assert himself.
It is one thing to simply assert that you don't choose to believe the science, in spite of a mountain of data supporting it.
In spite of their melancholic look, these elders, with the strength of their dignified and elegant postures, assert their fight against old age and are firmly planted in their homes.
