He opened up about his sensitivity to criticism, but also noted the steps he had taken to assert himself as a leader in a capital where he had long toiled in the relative obscurity of the Senate minority.
Pragmatic Twist Accounts maintain that when we resort to metaphor, we use words and phrases with their standard literal meanings to say one thing, put one thing into words, yet we are taken to mean, taken to assert or acknowledge or otherwise indicate, something entirely different.
If this statement is taken to assert that a certain three-place relation obtains among Brutus, Caesar, and a knife, then it is hard to explain why the statement entails that Brutus stabbed Caesar (a statement that involves a different, two-place relation) [Kenny 1963].
Nevertheless, (1′) should not be taken to assert that all persons are animals; the possibilities of both non-animal people (e.g., robots, angels, aliens, deities) and human animals that are not people (e.g., patients in persistent vegetative states, human fetuses) are left open.
They have taken to asserting that Romero was not a liberation theologian.
With U.N. Ambassador John Bolton in the lead, it took to asserting that it was right and everyone else was wrong.
Some will take offense when we have to assert that our lives should indeed matter, just as much as anyone else's.
Alternatively, Mr. Greenspan is acting pre-emptively, before the new administration takes office, to assert that the central bank has things under control.
Because of previous failures in prophecy, it takes courage to assert that a desired technical solution is not possible.
