Of startling significance, too, is the assertion that it was possible to carry out this program with only a 6 percent attrition rate as compared with a rate of 59 percent reported for a comparable group of families who were receiving help in traditionally operated child guidance services.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Given a field F, the assertion “ F is algebraically closed ” is equivalent to other assertions:

The assertion “ the polynomials of degree one are irreducible ” is trivially true for any field.

An even stronger assertion is that It is impossible by any procedure to reduce the temperature of a system to zero in a finite number of operations.

Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence to support the assertion that the blue laws were originally printed on blue paper.

But when we make a generall assertion, unlesse it be a true one, the possibility of it is inconceivable.

The evidence for this assertion is still fairly scanty, though excavations at Dun Bharabhat, Lewis, have supported it.

John Ellis explained that “... there is considerable justice in Matthew Cooper's assertion that the panzer divisions were not given the kind of strategic mission that was to characterize authentic armoured blitzkrieg, and were almost always closely subordinated to the various mass infantry armies .”

Concordant with the above understanding, any assertion about the motion of a body boils down to a description over time in which the body under consideration is at t < sub > 1 </ sub > found in the vicinity of one group of " landmark " bodies and at some t < sub > 2 </ sub > is found in the vicinity of some other " landmark " body or bodies.

Some sources say he used it as a base for his raids on shipping, yet there is no documentary evidence for this assertion.

Finally, belief in the power of such a cabal is an implicit assertion of human dignity – an often unconscious but necessary affirmation that man is not totally helpless, but is responsible, at least in some measure, for his own destiny.

However, Chicanos generally do not agree that " chicamo " was ever a word used within the culture, as its assertion is thus far entirely unsubstantiated.

A declaration of independence is an assertion of the independence of an aspiring state or states.

It's the assertion that " there is nothing outside the text " ( il n ' y a pas de hors-texte ), which means that “ there is no such a thing as out-of-the-text ”, in other words, the context is an integral part of the text.

" By this Derrida means that all claims to know something necessarily involve an assertion of the metaphysical type that something is the case somewhere.

* Niall Lucy points to the impossibility of defining the term at all, noting that: " While in a sense it is impossibly difficult to define, the impossibility has less to do with the adoption of a position or the assertion of a choice on deconstruction ’ s part than with the impossibility of every ‘ is ’ as such.

Therefore, " every assertion contrary to the truth illuminated by faith, we define to be altogether false "

Aristotle's assertion that "... it will not be possible to be and not to be the same thing ", which would be written in propositional logic as ¬ ( P ∧ ¬ P ), is a statement modern logicians could call the law of excluded middle ( P ∨ ¬ P ), as distribution of the negation of Aristotle's assertion makes them equivalent, regardless that the former claims that no statement is both true and false, while the latter requires that any statement is either true or false.

Opponents would say that this is a false assertion: numerous books refer to poor organization between government departments ( for example the Hurricane Katrina incident ).

Dembski's remarks were criticized by other members of the Baylor faculty, who protested that they were both an unjustified attack on his critics at Baylor and a false assertion that the university endorsed Dembski's controversial views on intelligent design.

This leads to the sort of paradoxes seen in statements such as " This statement is false ," wherein the sentence's basis of truth is found in referring to itself and its assertion, causing a logical paradox.

The assertion that the popular fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was born in Alfeld is false.

In computer programming, an assertion is a predicate ( a true – false statement ) placed in a program to indicate that the developer thinks that the predicate is always true at that place.

Once you remove the invalid assertion, then the argument for logical determinism is shown to be false.

Similarly, when that same invalid assertion is removed from the argument from free will (" by the definitions of ' knowledge ' and ' choice ', if one knows for certain what choice one will make in the future, one will not be able to make the opposite choice "), the proof is shown to be false.

McClellan further testified under oath before the House Judiciary Committee that Fleischer's assertion was false.

For this kind of subjectivist, a phrase having to do with probability simply asserts the degree to which the subjective actor believes their assertion is true or false.

Steyn claims that Muslims will account for perhaps 40 percent of the population by 2020, but Globe and Mail correspondent Doug Saunders labels the assertion false:

Simpson to try on the glove ... Mr. Darden's self-serving assertion that Johnnie Cochran tampered with the glove -- or any piece of evidence -- is false, malicious and slanderous ...

Some argue that this claim is truth-apt in that it has the logical form of an assertion, but it is neither true nor false because it presupposes that there is currently a king of France, but there is not.

Quattrocchi's DSSA association was subsequently denied and the assertion is thought to be false because he was actually working for a security company based in the United States.

This land belongs to the Jayyous villagers and the company " Geulat HaKarka " which is associated with the settlers took control of it on the false assertion that it was sold to them.

One of his fundamental principles is that it is a proposition of general applicability that the same cannot be both affirmed and denied at the same time of the same thing ; but that in any sense involving the truth of either the affirmation or the denial of a proposition, it applies only to existing things, but not to that which transcends speech and knowledge, for this admits neither of affirmation nor of denial, since every assertion respecting it must be false.

With the aid of many of his Order, he edited the first concordance of the Bible ( Concordantiae Sacrorum Bibliorum or Concordantiae S. Jacobi ), but the assertion that we owe the present division of the chapters of the Vulgate to him is false.

The proof involves assuming that the true area is greater than the second area, and then proving that assertion false, and then assuming that it is less than the second area, and proving that assertion false, too.

Steiner strongly objected and considered any comparison between Krishnamurti and Christ to be nonsense ; many years later, Krishnamurti also repudiated the assertion.

Moussa Ahmed Idriss and the ODU later challenged the results based on election " irregularities " and the assertion that " foreigners " had voted in various districts of the capital ; however, international and locally based observers considered the election to be generally fair, and cited only minor technical difficulties.

His government has also been condemned for allegedly arming and financing the insurgency in Somalia ; the United States is considering labeling Eritrea a " State Sponsor of Terrorism ," however, many experts on the topic have shied from this assertion, stating that " If there is one country where the fighting of extremists and terrorists was a priority when it mattered, it was Eritrea.

However, Price and Coleman married in 2007 ; and while they divorced in 2008, Price claimed in a court petition that she remained Coleman's common-law wife, sharing bank accounts and presenting themselves publicly as husband and wife, until his death ; an assertion that, if validated by the court, would make her the lawful heir.

However, this assertion was contradicted by an influential study by Cadbury in 1926, and has since been abandoned ; instead it is now believed this language reflects merely a common Greek education.

# Did the police scrupulously honor the defendant's assertion of his right to remain silent? If “ Yes ” go to 10 ; If “ No ”, go to 18.

Coubertin's assertion that the Games were the impetus for peace was also an exaggeration ; the peace which he spoke of only existed to allow athletes to travel safely to Olympia, and neither prevented the outbreak of wars nor ended ongoing ones.

The revolt of New World British colonists in North America, during the mid-1770s, has been seen as the first assertion of the right of national and democratic self-determination, because of the explicit invocation of natural law, the natural rights of man, as well as the consent of, and sovereignty by, the people governed ; these ideas were inspired particularly by John Locke's enlightened writings of the previous century.

This was one of several occasions on which the kingship of Wessex is said to have passed to a remote branch of the royal family with an unbroken male line of descent from Cerdic ; these claims may be genuine, or may reflect the spurious assertion of descent from Cerdic to legitimise a new dynasty.

Nixon met with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and did not believe her assertion that she would not invade Pakistan ; he did not trust her and once referred to her as an " old witch ".

Beta Israel black Jews have lived in Ethiopia for centuries, disconnected from the rest of Judaism ; their existence has given some impetus to Rastafari, as they believe it validates their assertion that Ethiopia is Zion.

The same writer is responsible for a curious and interesting assertion concerning the early missionary activity of the Roman Church ; indeed, the Liber Pontificalis contains no other statement equally remarkable.

However, when he explains in detail what he means, it is clear that he actually believes that his assertion is always true ; for instance, he shows that the equation x < sup > 4 </ sup > = 4x − 3, although incomplete, has four solutions ( counting multiplicities ): 1 ( twice ), − 1 + i √< span style =" text-decoration: overline "> 2 </ span >, and − 1 − i √< span style =" text-decoration: overline "> 2 </ span >.

These last four attempts assumed implicitly Girard's assertion ; to be more precise, the existence of solutions was assumed and all that remained to be proved was that their form was a + bi for some real numbers a and b. In modern terms, Euler, de Foncenex, Lagrange, and Laplace were assuming the existence of a splitting field of the polynomial p ( z ).

Some governors general, their staff, government publications, and constitutional scholars like Edward McWhinney and C. E. S. Franks have, however, referred to the position of governor general as that of Canada's head of state, though sometimes qualilfying the assertion with de facto or effective ; Franks has hence recommended that the governor general be named officially as the head of state.

Many scholars doubt the assertion that it was as far north as the Chesapeake ; most place it in present-day Georgia's Sapelo Island.

This assertion was widely accepted, until Boisserie asserted in 2005 that the pygmy hippopotamus was not a member of Hexaprotodon, after a thorough examination of the phylogeny of Hippopotamidae ; he suggested instead that the pygmy hippopotamus was a distinct genus, and returned the animal to Choeropsis.

Later, Petruchio confirms that Hortensio was right in this assertion ;

There are times in which Cherry tends to be controversial ; for example, in 2003, Cherry stated that the majority of players wearing facial protection in the NHL are French-Canadians and Europeans ( though a study done by a lawyer confirmed Cherry's assertion ).

" The bread and wine, offered by Melchizedek in sacrifice in the old covenant ( Genesis 14: 18 ; Psalm 110: 4 ), are transformed through the Mass into the body and blood of Christ ( see transubstantiation ; note: the Orthodox Church does not hold as dogma, as do Catholics, the doctrine of transubstantiation, preferring rather to not make an assertion regarding the " how " of the sacraments ), and the offering becomes one with that of Christ on the cross.

After asking the children to point to the places on the dolls where they had allegedly been touched and asking leading questions, she diagnosed sexual abuse in virtually all McMartin children, and coerced disclosures using lengthy interviews which rewarded discussions of abuse and punished denials ; testimony during the trial was often contradictory and vague on all details except for the assertion that the abuse had occurred.

A stronger sense of equality is obtained if some form of Leibniz's law is added as an axiom ; the assertion of this axiom rules out " bare particulars "— things that have all and only the same properties but are not equal to each other — which are possible in some logical formalisms.