I'm just asserting the rationality of identity politics, not giving my blessing to it.
These are the people who serve us every day and they are just asserting their rights — we would be outraged if we were treated that way".
Sorensen defines lying as follows: "Lying is just asserting what one does not believe" (Sorensen 2007, 256).
This has come up at every debate, and every time he's just asserted that he respects women which is at this point a joke.
He's not just asserting prestige, he's actually taking people over and absorbing their life blood," he said.
When making the comparison between Mexican immigrants and the Cuban exile generation that immigrated in the 1960s, the conservative radio host insisted that he was "not just asserting it," and that "the scholarly research from academia is out there".
Both actors are just right, asserting their presence when the script calls for it but never overpowering the leads.
By the time 'Hungry Like the Wolf' became a global hit in 1983, they were the right boys in the right shade of rouge at the right time: MTV was just starting, asserting the primacy of 'look' over technique.
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.
To call a sentence true is just to assert or affirm the sentence (Ramsey 1927).
