This device allows events to unfold hesitantly as the composite 'truth' of events emerges, truth which leads Robert to assert at the novel's end: 'I understood only that I had understood nothing.
The 2-5 favourite was asked to assert at the second last but Knockara Beau refused to go away quietly.
She has adopted all those markers of superiority — the real coffee, the classical music, Proust — to assert at every opportunity that she's superior to the common run.
But on Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to assert at a hearing that it has the authority to regulate banks' debt collection practices under the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law.
This approach is not without risk, however, as there's always a possibility your request could be denied, making it harder for you to assert at a later date that there was no violation.
Other gallery owners say they are interested in Mr. Simmons's idea, but they are quick to assert that, at least at this stage of development, the notion is less than revolutionary.
Coinciding with this shift, she has begun to assert herself at the table.
The consequence of not doing so would be to forfeit this critical relationship to China and India, both eager to assert themselves, at least economically, in the region.
In 1106 he visited Anselm at the Abbey of Bec, but probably did not try to assert himself at Séez.
David tried to protest, but the man looked so determined as he came out of the shed, carrying the block in one arm and the beam balanced in the other, that David felt there was no graceful way out of simply allowing the negative proof to assert itself this at the cost of more time.
