And her fears of mental illness seem asserted rather than felt.
And China has submitted a map that seems to assert ownership of a vast part of the South China sea.
She also seems to assert that she had to kill to ensure she would be imprisoned instead of being sent yet again to a state mental hospital.
In rejecting the euro, they wanted, it seems, to assert their independence and to say no to the sort of harmonisation that might have threatened their welfare state and perhaps even their sense of national identity.
Richard Prum seems to assert as a central tenet of biology that all sexual behavior is about reproduction and asks why anyone would "invest in sexual behavior that isn't reproductive".
As this bleak fairy tale unfolds, lacking contours except the constant promise of a happy ending, a different kind of music from the usual Murakami riffs seems to assert itself.
Mike Godwin, staff lawyer for the Center for Democracy and Technology, a public interest group that deals with Internet legal issues, said the provision seemed overbroad, asserting that PayPal had been deputized to "be always on watch".
Imagine if such parties emerged in Germany, they murmur.Even if they are not nationalists in the flag-waving sense, German politicians now seem comfortable asserting Germany's national interests as the largest EU member and biggest net contributor to its budget.
In several places, McTaggart seems to assert that it is meaningless to ascribe modal features to reality as a whole.
The problem with closure of physics may be radically altered if physical laws are indeterministic, as quantum theory seems to assert.
