What's that like?" Most Russian homosexuals hide their sexual identity, and the men's announcement of their wedding on Monday in this ancient city 250 miles east of Moscow was an unusual public assertion of gay rights.
Even more unusual was the assertion by the lawyer for the plaintiffs that one of the priests had admitted his acts to him and could serve as a witness on behalf of the people he had abused.
Special juries were drawn, at the request of a party (probably on assertion of unusual complication in the litigation) from a limited list of property owners.
In the paper, which was posted last month on the Web site LingBuzz, a repository of articles on Chomskyan generative grammar, the authors used data from Everett's 1983 Ph.D. dissertation, as well as from a paper that he published on Pirahã in 1986, to refute his recent claims about the language's unusual features — including the assertion that the Pirahã do not use recursion.
Having a bookcase full of snakes might not be a seduction tactic, but there is certainly an element of showy display, and of self-assertion, involved in keeping unusual creatures.
In deflecting such assertions, Ms. Merkel has won unusual support from the Left Party, heir to the old Communists.
Contrary to the assertions of Mr. Pitts and others, there is nothing unusual about this slogan.
It was not the substance of Trump's comments, but the body language, asides and general temperament, Trump's assertion that was his greatest strength notwithstanding, that made last night's debate so unusual.
The assertion was made by the wildlife sound-recorder who heard (and taped) a distinct and unusual owl call, one that was fundamentally different from other Arabian owls he'd ever heard.
Although it is unusual for a foreign government to claim independently the support of outside nations against internal criticism, the United States on Sunday supported Mr. Karzai's assertion.
