Still, it takes a comic sense of timing to interrupt himself, as he does after a dozen pages of this collection of essays, with the poker-faced claim: 'I want to avoid over-assertion.' As readers who first encountered these essays in the London Review of Books or the New Republic will know, Wood does not usually avoid problems.
All democratic governments face a dilemma over assertions of free speech which threaten their strategic or commercial interests.
He has been fighting off a very French furore over assertions his tastes are too luxurious to lay claim to the political left.
LIMA, Peru Colombiaia's new president, Juan Manuel Santos, and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, moved on Tuesday to repair diplomatic relations after ties had sharply deteriorated in recent weeks over assertions by Colombia's government that Colombian guerrillas were operating from Venezuelan soil.
A front-page subheading yesterday about a federal investigation of MCI over assertions that it defrauded other telephone companies of long-distance access fees referred imprecisely to MCI's response.
Correction: July 28, 2003, Monday A front-page subheading yesterday about a federal investigation of MCI over assertions that it defrauded other telephone companies of long-distance access fees referred imprecisely to MCI's response.
He favors questions and gestures over assertions, and when he does make assertions, they tend to be phrased as questions: "That much, still, / is true, isn't it?" Though Phillips often skirts the line between indeterminacy and mere vagueness, he usually manages to stay on the right side of it, and his poems are enriched by their ambivalence.
A7 Bickering Over Sect Leader Falun Gong followers in Hong Kong and the United States are squabbling over assertions by Belinda Pang, 37, who lives in the southern Chinese territory, that she is the true master of the spiritual movement, having taken over from its founder, Li Hongzhi, who has dropped from view.
Falun Gong followers in Hong Kong and the United States are squabbling over assertions by a woman in the southern Chinese territory that she is the "true master" of the spiritual movement, having taken over from its founder, Li Hongzhi, who has dropped from view.
They are mainstream politicians, motivated in part by a strong attachment to parliamentary democracy (though I disagree with their over-gloomy assertion that British democracy is wrecked by EU membership).And my hunch is that for UKIP to move much beyond its current core vote, it would have to dilute its message on, say, Islam or immigration, to pick up many more mainstream Conservatives.
Among them was the ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, who fell out with the Bolshoi's leadership in 2003 over the assertion that she was too heavy to lift.
