Sentence examples for is asserted against from inspiring English sources

In Distinction, his 1979 report on the social logic of taste, French academic Pierre Bourdieu wrote that "social identity lies in difference, and difference is asserted against what is closest, which represents the greatest threat".

Update 3: The Foss Patents blog has obtained a full list of the 24 patents Ericsson is asserting against Samsung.

There was a like investment in property, encouraged by the then conditions; a like reduction of value and deprivation of property was asserted against the validity of the ordinance there considered; a like assertion of an arbitrary exercise of the power of prohibition.

A vested interest cannot be asserted against it because of conditions once obtaining.

"It is not easy to stand by as false allegations are asserted against the firm".

(b) If an adverse claim could not have been asserted against an entitlement holder under Section 8-502, the adverse claim cannot be asserted against a person who purchases a security entitlement, or an interest therein, from the entitlement holder.

"It is not easy to stand by as false allegations are asserted against the firm," he wrote.

It holds that borrowers' legal claims against their lenders can also be asserted against any subsequent purchasers of the loans.

At some point even the most dedicated numbers fanatic would accept that quality has to be asserted against quantity.

A number of states have tried to remedy this difficulty by permitting the surviving spouse's rights to be asserted against certain inter vivos transfers.

This doctrine is important because a bankruptcy trustee can assert only those claims that the bankrupt company could, and if there would be a valid in pari delicto claim against the company, then it can be asserted against the trustee.