The solitude this implies is enormous, not to mention the need for self-assertion.
Squarely in his element, Rick Santorum delivered a confident assertion of the need for moral leadership in the political realm at the Values Voter Summit in Washington on Friday.
Hollande's assertion of the need for the eurozone to pool some of its debt through eurobonds challenged one of Merkel's red lines.
"It confronts the broader and richer picture of the human nature of the priesthood, the assertion of a need for not so much sexual expression, but deep personal relationships," said Eugene Kennedy, a former priest and an emeritus professor of psychology at Loyola University of America.
We do not dispute the documents' assertion that '[t]he need for a sensible and sustainable alcohol policy is well understood'.
Step 2. We only need to show assertion (29).
The need for more facts and fewer fanciful assertions is becoming more acute, he said.
These contain bold assertions about the need for blanket surveillance whilst nearly always speaking of a "known terrorist" or specific "intelligence operation".
But Mr. Rykwert's conclusions also round up the familiar suspects and prescriptions: a call for community involvement, criticisms of developers, attacks on the stridency of architectural doctrine, assertions about the need for public space.
But the war and years that followed were telescoped, in her speech, into vague assertions about the need for "leadership" and complaints that President Obama had not delivered on that count: "We cannot be reluctant to lead and you cannot lead from behind".
For assertion expresses the belief that one knows.
