Sentence examples for well as to assert from inspiring English sources

In the current language that Pāṇini describes, the aorist was used to speak of an action carried out at a past time and could include the day on which one spoke, as well as to assert simply that the act in question had taken place.

For all the talk of American decline, Obama is actually well-positioned to assert global leadership.

Moreover, we would be well within our rights to assert, as we did in Gaza after our disengagement in 2005, that we are no longer responsible for the Palestinian residents of the West Bank, who would continue to live in their own — unannexed — towns.

But, in comedy as well as onscreen, Williams seems compelled to assert his own humanity.

In Spain, Croatia-Dalmatia, Denmark, Hungary, the kingdom of Kiev, Brittany, Poland, and Bohemia, as well as in England, Gregory tried to assert overlordship, mostly unsuccessfully.

Above all, as the only political party that is strong in Scotland and Wales as well as in England, it needs to assert its unionist credentials: it needs to insist that British identity is more important than English, Scottish or Welsh identity.

But there were other interesting subplots as well, such as media companies trying to assert themselves in the digital domain with Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube, NBC and Fox launching Hulu, and NBC tangling with iTunes, not to mention the whole DRM-free drama in music.

To assert "X is good" is just to assert "I approve of X: Do so as well!" In The Rise of Scientific Philosophy he insists that ethical statements express "volitional decisions," without truth values, that are not subject to empirical knowledge.

In particular, little is known about the conflict management strategies of children in China and Korea, although Japanese studies have generally shown that 3- and 4-year-old children act as they please, mainly through action rather than talk, and 5- and 6-year-old children are able to suppress as well as verbally assert their opinions (e.g., Maruyama, 1999; Suzuki, Koyasu, & An, 2004).

2. One of the main points of Acts 16:16-40 is that God is more powerful than even the world's strongest political and legal systems, as well as all the tools they use to assert their dominance (such as laws, prisons, shame, and corporeal punishment).

In one fell swoop, the president likened the Iraq war to earlier conflicts in Japan and Korea — which produced democratic allies of the United States — as well as to the war in Vietnam, asserting that the American pullout there 32 years ago led to tens of thousands of deaths in that country and Cambodia.