Both Maddow and Smith used this data from Open Secrets to assert that the fight in Wisconsin is really about securing Republicans' political power and busting unions.
Unaccountable, anonymous users who troll comments have plagued news sites ever since threads were first opened, and it's to assert some order that many sites resort to letting Facebook guard their comments.
If you're going to write a book that's setting a goal for others to follow – the work of a manifesto – you must at least come out in the open in declarative sentences to assert what you think, and take the hits or plaudits that follow.
But instead, the sources said, Taliban representatives had talked about "bloodshed" and "killings" and had asserted the office had opened "to end the occupation of Afghanistan".
One who asserts P lays herself open to the challenge, "How do you know that?", and she is obliged to retract P if she is unable to respond to that challenge adequately.
They added that Lockett's fate "gruesomely underscores the importance of transparency, judicial oversight, and the crucial importance of keeping some doors open to death-sentenced inmates to assert their right to be executed in a manner that comports with the eighth amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment".
Of course it is entirely possible to ask what it means to assert an open sentence, but notice that again we are converging on a view in which the determiners fall out, leaving behind a free variable.
It is better to be open with your discontent and to assert yourself than to seek the undermine the bossy person.
To ease specific fears that they would repeat the mistakes of the 1930s when protectionism prolonged the Great Depression, they needed to assert a commitment to open trade.
Such an intent led him to assert, in a 1923 open letter to Martin Buber called "The Builders," that observing particular laws and practices of the Torah and the Jewish tradition in his time had to be rooted in each individual Jew's ability rather than in her will.
