Here's the visual evidence, it asserts, of a warming planet; make of it what you will.
In "The Emptiness of Too Much Leisure," it asserted that "some of the middle-of-the-road prophets of what automation is doing to our economy think that we are on the verge of a 30-hour week".
"She wasn't a militant, like Rei Kawakubo, but her approach struck me as aggressively conceptual in that it asserted the primacy of the pattern over the garment.
The Bush view meant that the president was literally unchecked: it asserted the kind of sweeping authority that the Nixon administration only threatened but that brought down that administration when the Supreme Court ruled that it wasn't above the law.
He brazenly courted scandal, revelled in most of it, asserted that "hot sex sells clothes," and certainly subjected his models — like the mannequins in the catalogue — to extreme trials.
It asserted that the head of the criminal division, Lanny A. Breuer, and a top deputy, Jason Weinstein, were in a "position to know the key investigative techniques employed" and "should have known" about them.
Before the Benisheik attack, the Islamists had been gathering for several days, and military officials were aware of it, asserted Mohammed Benisheikh, a lawyer whose brother was shot in the leg in the violence.
It only excites dispute and many of the facts asserted of it are so closely related to fraud that even the apology of hysteria has little effect.
In poetics, metaphor is often distinguished from simile in that it asserts properties of one entity in terms of another entity without the use of "like" or "as" ("My boss is a dragon" vs. "My boss is like a dragon").
It asserts violation of federal unfair-competition laws and state false-advertising laws.
