Asserting that " Language diversity is essential to the human heritage ," UNESCO's Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages offers this definition of an endangered language: "... when its speakers cease to use it, use it in an increasingly reduced number of communicative domains, and cease to pass it on from one generation to the next.

Asserting that puerperal fever was a contagious disease and that matter from autopsies were implicated in its development, Semmelweis made doctors wash their hands with chlorinated lime water before examining pregnant women, thereby reducing mortality from childbirth from 18 % to 2. 2 % at his hospital.

Asserting its newly gained national prerogatives, Georgia responded with military attempts to restrain separatism forcibly.

Asserting that the series hit its peak with season five episodes such as " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", the Sunday Tasmanian called the episode a " first-class offering ".

Asserting the independence which was always dormant within the Tariff Board's Act, the Board was transformed into a crusader for economic rationality by its Chairman in the 1960s, Alf Rattigan after whom the Commission's Melbourne hearing room is named.

* the seventh paragraph after the words " for the Vindicating and Asserting their auntient Rights and Liberties, Declare "

Asserting that “ A poor man does not use Money as a Weapon ”, the Arusha Declaration identifies the heart of economic struggle:

Asserting that much of psychological data have only ordinal justification, Cliff also published various papers and a book on ordinal methods for research.

Asserting that medical care " must be rendered under conditions that are acceptable to both patient and physician ", the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons adopted a list of ' patient freedoms ' in 1990 which was modified and adopted as a ' patients ' bill of rights ' in 1995:

Asserting that this dark matter does not exist would mean that the accepted theory of gravitation ( General Relativity ) is incomplete, and while that could be possible, most scientists would require extensive amounts of compelling evidence before seriously considering it.

Whereas the late King James the Second by the Assistance of diverse evill Councellors Judges and Ministers imployed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome ( list of grievances including ) ... by causing severall good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law, ( Recital regarding the change of monarch ) ... thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation takeing into their most serious Consideration the best meanes for attaining the Ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Auncestors in like Case have usually done ) for the Vindicating and Asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ( list of rights including ) ... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.

Asserting that quantum mechanics is deterministic by treating the wave function itself as reality implies a single wave function for the entire universe, starting at the origin of the universe.

* Asserting the legitimacy of the exiled government, and by implication the lack of legitimacy of Vidkun Quisling's pro-Nazi regime and Josef Terboven's military administration

Asserting her seriousness as an actress, Wright insisted her contract contain unique clauses by Hollywood standards:

Asserting that someone is a nonperson is implicitly a normative statement ; by doing so, it is implied simultaneously that the person referred to is entitled to the rights that any person should have.

Asserting that " state constitutional jurisprudence in this area is not limited by the constraints inherent in federal due process analysis ", the majority opinion held that the law as written and enforced " infringed upon the equal protection guarantees found in the Kentucky Constitution.

Asserting the latter ( that there is always at least one foolable person ) does not signify whether this foolable person is always the same for all moments of time.

Asserting their claim of exclusive sovereignty and navigation rights, the Spanish force seized the Portuguese-flagged British ships.

Accordingly what someone asserts when they assert " p and I believe that not-p " is just " p and not-p " Asserting the commissive version of Moore's sentences is again assimilated to the more familiar ( putative ) impropriety of asserting a contradiction.

* Asserting that they have " no recollection " or " cannot remember " an event having taken place, giving the impression that it did not take place at all.

Asserting his disappointment with the incumbent socialist MP Albert Facon, Daniel Janssens, who had been a socialist activist for thirty years and a first deputy mayor of Leforest for 24 years, led her support committee during the electoral campaign.

Asserting Yourself: A Practical Guide for Positive Change.

Asserting that 33 is somehow prime because a flawed proof arrives at this eventuality, and then asserting that the definition of primes itself is flawed is pseudomathematical reasoning.

Asserting that Leykis's insults of Ingels ' age violated California's Unruh Civil Rights Act ( which prohibits individuals discrimination in business ), Ingels sued Westwood One and Tom Leykis in July 2003 for age discrimination.

Asserting the presence of the mirror has been crucial for many modern interpreters.

Asserting the right to difference, National-Anarchists publicly advocate a model of society in which communities that practice racial, ethnic, religious or sexual separatism are able to peacefully coexist alongside mixed or integrated communities without requiring force.

Actually, the Communists, out of fear of a united and armed Germany, would probably be willing to agree to a disarmed Germany that would be united and neutral and have its independence guaranteed by the U.N..

When the Congo received its independence in 1960 there were, among its 13.5 million people, exactly 14 university graduates.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

A small library may cherish its independence and established ways, and resist joining in a cooperative movement that sometimes seems radical to older members of the board.

Cape Verde signed a friendship accord with Angola in December 1975, shortly after Angola gained its independence.

Angola-Vietnam relations were established in August 1971, four years before Angola gained its independence, when future President of Angola Agostinho Neto visited Vietnam.

Because of independence, the decision whether to use of the axiom of choice ( or its negation ) in a proof cannot be made by appeal to other axioms of set theory.

* 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.

Since its independence, Armenia has maintained a policy of complementarism by trying to have friendly relations both with Iran, Russia, and the West, including the United States and Europe.

Abensberg then lost its independence and became a part of the Duchy of Bavaria, and from then on was administered by a ducal official, the so-called caretaker.

* 1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

* 1991 – Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.

* 1825 – Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.

* 1991 – Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union

In the Middle East, the Suez crisis of 1956 as well as the preceding crisis in Iran, demonstrated the sharp upsurge of nationalism, which was as assertive of the region's social and economic aspirations as of its political independence.

* 1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

He achieved the independence of the southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia, the County of Portugal, from Galicia's overlord, the King of León, in 1139, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death, in 1185, after forty-six years of wars against the Moors.

* 1957 – The Federation of Malaya ( now Malaysia ) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

* 1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

The penal colony was eventually closed on August 15, 1947 when India gained its independence.

* 1991 – Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

After Rome became an Empire under Augustus, the nominal independence of Athens dissolved and its government converged to the normal type for a Roman municipality, with a Senate ( gerousia ) of decuriones.

* 1991 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.

Authority in the Roman Church is the exertion of that imperium from which England in the 16th century finally and decisively declared its national independence as the alter imperium, the " other empire ", of which Henry VIII declared " This realm of England is an empire " ...