"Yet again we hear the tired old assertion that vocational courses presently offered are the easy option for schools and students.
Gottfried W. Locher writes, "The old assertion 'Zwingli was against church singing' holds good no longer ... Zwingli's polemic is concerned exclusively with the medieval Latin choral and priestly chanting and not with the hymns of evangelical congregations or choirs".
And it's a fair point, coming back to the old assertion that nobody should be able to decide what we do with our own bodies, as long as whatever that is doesn't harm anybody else.
For a while, it has seemed that WB Yeats's century-old assertion that "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" has taken on the status of prophecy.
In June 1993 Wiles, a Princeton University mathematician, had claimed a proof, by relating the problem to a deep conjecture in algebraic number theory, of Pierre de Fermat's famous 350-year-old assertion that xn + yn = zn has no solutions for which x, y, and z are whole numbers if n is three or more.
As the baffling and then burlesque and then baroquely burlesque affair enveloping General Petraeus and his friends, of both sexes, fell upon us like another hurricane last week, it seemed to confirm once again Philip Roth's fifty-year-old assertion that you can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
At a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq's Foreign Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, rebuffed a United Nations demand for more documents on his country's arms program, reiterating a year-old assertion that Baghdad had already produced more than two million pages of files and had no more documents to give United Nations inspectors.
By Adam Gopnik As the baffling and then burlesque and then baroquely burlesque affair enveloping General Petraeus and his friends, of both sexes, fell upon us like another hurricane last week, it seemed to confirm once again Philip Roth's fifty-year-old assertion that you can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
Given the 18-year-old's previous assertions that he would prefer to continue his career in the Bundesliga, that has been widely been interpreted as evidence the forward will be signing for Dortmund having visited their training ground with his mother and representatives last month.
There's nothing like an honest, old-fashioned assertion of humanity's place atop the food chain to put an environmental challenge in perspective.
(Carey has often described herself as an "eternal twelve-year-old," an assertion borne out by her enthusiasm not just for rainbows, butterflies, and glitter — all of which appear on her album covers — but for the songs that were actually on the radio when she was a teen-ager).
