But he will not negotiate with them on how he would lead, sources close to him said, but will rather assert that his conservative credentials speak for themselves.
Smirnova responds with serenely individual phrasing, deliberate épaulement – she does not pretend to bonelessness, but rather, asserts the transcendent harmony of her limbs – and a cool, quiet smile.
They said they chose the term to make it clear that they were not trying to challenge Turkey's territorial or national integrity, but rather asserting their freedom and ethnic rights within Turkey.
They quickly called and asked that it be changed — that they weren't clearing Farrell in particular but rather asserting that none of their policies had overtly been circumvented or tampered with by any employee.
That said, there are other researchers who counter this view and, rather, assert that nominalisations can indeed serve to represent processes (cf. Simon-Vandenbergen et al. 2003; Bartley and Hidalgo-Tenorio 2015) and, in fact, their use is likely to serve a particular purpose.
A set leader is not elected but rather asserts himself by developing and managing the gang's criminal enterprises through his reputation for violence and ruthlessness and through his personal charisma.
Rather, he asserted it was packaged with a passion that might as well define him.
Rather, he asserted, it was the prospect of an invasion by the Soviet Union that ended the war in the Pacific.
Rather, he asserted, the anthropomorphizing of the iPod is "just another example of how much people love them".
Indeed, Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state, rather brutally asserted this week that "the human tragedy" in Kosovo was a "larger issue" than the accidental killing of three Chinese journalists.
