The journalist who later became Morgan's successor said that he agreed with a question from David Barr, junior counsel for the inquiry, that he was not "in a position to positively assert one way or the other" what the ultimate source of that news story was.
The rejection of a picture as a means of representing the holy also is a symbolical way of positively asserting the presence of God.
In their brilliant and highly readable "Interpretive Essay" Bartlett and Collins suggest, without positively asserting, that Aristotle offers a solution to the problem, or crisis, of human well-being.
An important move in that turn was made here in Chicago -- it was to positively assert the importance of freedom of movement for all scholars, and to acknowledge the importance of protecting an open space for the conversation to continue.
The inclusion of pig, canine and rabbit prions would undermine the contrasts, because we could not positively assert that these are truly PD-resistant species.
The cost-effectiveness of cooking with vegetables (not without meat, do not even mention its absence) needs to be positively and repeatedly asserted.
It's now making those changes, like more floor space in its gyms for stretching and yoga, as well as ActiViva Lighting from Philips — blue light technology that the lighting company's Web site asserts "positively influences well-being".
Much as his rhetoric and his will power in domestic policy is being recognized, he is generally been seen as lacking the talent to positively distinguish and assert himself in foreign policy.
So the set of white objects is at least a candidate natural kind and Quine asserts that positively charged objects form a natural kind.
Gradually, Real Madrid asserted itself.
