He asserted a "coincidence of interest" partially organized around "a permanent war establishment," but he did little more than assert it.
In other words, with increasing medical knowledge, all patients would be rescued from a diagnostic category that did little more than assert that they were 'too difficult'.
The strategy is no more complicated than asserting that the president has done a good job and deserves another term, the paradigm case perhaps being Ronald Reagan's 1984 "Morning in America" campaign.
One common motive people have for implicating something is that it is often perceived to be more polite than asserting it (Pinker 2007).
As Cook and Ludwig put it: The simplistic notion that crime is proportional to the number of "criminals" provides no more illumination than asserting that farm output is proportional to the number of "farmers".
More than 70% asserted they were treated by an expert, 12% stated that they were not, and 17% said they did not know.
With his proposal today, Mr. Bush was doing more than simply asserting concern about conservation.
Addressing them directly, she said: "Now is the time to do more than just assert – against evidence to the contrary – that the union works for Scotland.
While 90percentt of people making more than $75,000 assert their unlimited potential, even people making $30,000 or less still sign on at the rate of 82percentt.
As the recent experience of Iraq proves, elections in a country where the rights and responsibilities of secular and democratic citizenship are largely unknown do little more than crudely assert the majority's right to rule.
