Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] assert " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is note-worthy that of all Charles 's ministers the one who most forcibly asserted rights of this kind , Pedro Rodriquez Campomanes , was also the one least influenced by ‘ enlightened ’ ideas , which in Spain were very much a foreign , overwhelmingly French , import . |
| 2 | I suspect that the reason why the right has been so little asserted or used is because of the established right of individuals , who are personally libelled by a false attack upon a local authority , to sue for damages and because those in control of local authorities have sensibly left the issues to be resolved in those proceedings . |
| 3 | It is not enough merely to assert their impotence . |
| 4 | And I was even more curious as to why it was that Milton Friedman could so confidently assert in his writings a belief in the value of freedom , or Harry Johnson in the value of efficiency or Nicholas Kaldor in the value of equality , if it were true that facts and values could be distinguished so clearly . |
| 5 | But who constituted " the people " , whose rights against monarchs were so ringingly asserted by the Calvinist and Huguenot writers ? |
| 6 | Nowhere in these publications are these connections argued for : they are merely dogmatically asserted . |
| 7 | It can scarcely be claimed , therefore , that the political systems of the world in the mid-twentieth century revealed a very widespread practice of democracy — though the principle was more widely asserted — even in the narrow constitutional sense of the right of all adult citizens to choose their political leaders by means of free elections . |
| 8 | Particularly after the political settlement of 1688–9 , it was ever more openly asserted that political power belonged , as of right , to the propertied . |
| 9 | The immunity of diplomats from civil proceedings was also being more and more clearly asserted . |
| 10 | All that remains of the Saussurean model is the primacy of language and an emphasis on the signifier , both of which are even more strongly asserted here than in poetics . |
| 11 | Exceptions to this bias towards language include a crude behaviourism still strongly asserted in some archaeological theories which reduce the artefact as cultural construction to merely part of the process by which an environment works its determinant force upon the human subject . |
| 12 | … no other part of the nation became more conscious of its identity or more passionately asserted its homogeneity . |
| 13 | Marxists influenced by Gramsci 's analysis have also often asserted the impact of dominant ideas , but , in their view , acquiescence has been always problematic ; it has to be worked for through the establishment of hegemony and can never be simply taken for granted . |
| 14 | As they skirted the smooth lawns on the way back to the car park Merrill dropped behind to walk with Sam who was now complacently asserting that all this exercise had given him an appetite for dinner . |
| 15 | There has been some argument about whether or not they knew what he was doing , but most of them now piously assert that they had no such knowledge and some take the view that it was an outrageous breach of confidence . |
| 16 | companies now erm which quite obviously assert that fact , on the doorways of chemists for instance , they do not test on animals . |
| 17 | A noteworthy recent example of the use of Article 100 in the area of social policy is Council Directive 91/533 on an employer 's obligation to inform employees of the conditions applicable to the contract or employment relationship , where it is quite simply asserted in the recitals that ‘ differences in the legislation of Member States may have a direct effect on the operation of the common market ’ . |
| 18 | Accession should take such a form that although the United Kingdom did not forfeit the sovereignty of its Parliament , and could thus theoretically always assert it , it should , for the future , refrain from doing so . |
| 19 | Carlism , too , was plagued by internal divisions and offered no resistance when , in December 1936 , Franco effectively exiled its political leader , Fal Conde , for too strenuously asserting his movement 's independence . |