since this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowards, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely: they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children…when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you.
Writing in retirement after political disgrace, Machiavelli states firmly that, since this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowards, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely: they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children…when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you.
The right that has to be asserted is the right not to be forced to fight.
There are values that need to be asserted and protected.
To know, Green asserted, is to be aware of relations between objects.
This type of variation in the number of wing feathers between closely related species, the authors asserted, is to be expected, given similar variation among modern birds.
To be a child of Kāli, Rāmprasād asserts, is to be denied of earthly delights and pleasures.
They are to be selfless, but must constantly assert their will.
An identity proposition is to be understood in this context as asserting no more than this; in particular it is not to be taken as asserting that the two naming expressions have the same meaning.
And so, despite Rossellini's insistence that eternal youth was neither her dream nor that of any woman she knew (she says she told Lancôme that the new dream was to be independent, to be powerful, to assert yourself ), she was replaced, rather humiliatingly, by the very similar-looking Juliette Binoche – dark hair, pale skin, full lips, high cheekbones – only 12 years her junior.
