In addition, prosecutors often demand that potential witnesses themselves plead guilty to some offenses, in part to avoid assertions that soft treatment by prosecutors encouraged false testimony.
This is not to suggest we all need to keep quiet about what we believe, only that we need avoid assertions of the superiority of one belief system over others.
Papandreou has done extremely well to avoid the assertions of the inevitability of failure.
Still, it takes a comic sense of timing to interrupt himself, as he does after a dozen pages of this collection of essays, with the poker-faced claim: 'I want to avoid over-assertion.' As readers who first encountered these essays in the London Review of Books or the New Republic will know, Wood does not usually avoid problems.
His accusers said that he was "dumped" in impoverished, nonwhite communities by church officials to avoid scandal, an assertion that has emerged in other recent abuse cases.
The Imaginative Argument offers all the intellectual kindling that writers need to ignite this creativity, from insights on developing ideas to avoiding bland assertions or logical leaps.
The group claims non-partisanship, which is an important assertion to avoid legal entanglement.
The feminine style is more humble; the speaker may qualify an assertion to avoid sounding "uppity". When a woman speaks in a feminine way, she may be talked over, not be heard and not be seen as a leader.
It is crucial, therefore, to avoid explicit or implicit assertions of superiority.
For a decade, management lawyers have been counseling employers to investigate sexual harassment assertions privately, to avoid compounding such matters with accusations of managerial insensitivity.
