A related, but much more subtle, assertion was put forward by two Swedish economists, Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin.
Vice President Dick Cheney's not-so-subtle assertion that the election of John Kerry could lead to more terrorist acts is another example of the administration's refusal to take responsibility for its policies.
The Nobel committee plays a strong game when it comes to subtle political assertion.
Even the assertion of subtle pressure amounts to a skewing of politics in the guerrillas' favor: by getting candidates to favor paving certain roads, for example, the rebel group can assure easier movement of its arms and supplies in the future.
But the presence of God is signaled in Matarazzo's work by far subtler means: the assertion of a sort of global symmetry, of a fate that takes away and a grace that restores, returning the most chaotic, convoluted situations to a state of order and justice.
It also has a subtle colour scheme, contrary to Wolfe's assertions that the Bauhaus was only interested in black, white and grey.
This undertaking, according to Kölbel, also distinguishes assertion from presupposition, although in a more subtle way.
This shift is subtle but significant, and comes in part, church observers say, in reaction to official Israeli assertions that Christians quietly dread the idea of having the Old City under the control of a Palestinian state.
Chakrabortty is correct in his assertion that "the nature of race relations in this country has got more subtle".
Although she long suspected that the same subtle biases documented in the general population were at work among scientists, she had no data to support such assertions.
