John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

Although the monarch had frequently asserted that the elections were to be without party significance, his action was an implicit admission that party identifications were a factor.

If it could be shown that judgments of good and bad were not judgments at all, that they asserted nothing true or false, but merely expressed emotions like `` Hurrah '' or `` Fiddlesticks '', then these wayward judgments would cease from troubling and weary heads could be at rest.

Herodotus called them Androktones (" killers of men "), and he stated that in the Scythian language they were called Oiorpata, which he asserted had this meaning.

The heavenly bodies, he asserted, were masses of stone torn from the earth and ignited by rapid rotation.

While his predecessors Thales and Anaximander proposed that the arche, the underlying material of the world, were water and the ambiguous substance apeiron, respectively, Anaximenes asserted that air was this primary substance of which all other things are made.

Earthquakes he asserted were the result either of lack of moisture, which causes the earth to break apart because of how parched it is, or of overabundance thereof, which also causes cracks in the earth because of the excess of water.

Modern aestheticians have asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aesthetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed important aesthetics to some 20th-century thinkers.

In any event, Peters never asserted that the blue laws were originally printed on blue paper, and this has come to be regarded as an example of false etymology.

Various rock and roll histories have asserted the singing group The Hollies were named in homage to Buddy Holly.

Yersin also noted that rats were affected by plague not only during plague epidemics but also often preceding such epidemics in humans, and that plague was regarded by many locals as a disease of rats: villagers in China and India asserted that, when large numbers of rats were found dead, plague outbreaks soon followed.

: These views were made clear in a disclaimer printed in the Factbook: " Serbia and Montenegro have asserted the formation of a joint independent state, but this entity has not been recognized as a state by the United States.

Pol Pot and Ieng Sary asserted their dominance over the Vietnamese-trained communists, many of whom were purged.

He asserted that many were steeped in racism, unsubstantiated, or based on second-hand or hearsay evidence.

Rosenthal claimed that millions of dollars Day lost were in real estate sold after Melcher died in 1968, in which Rosenthal asserted that the attorneys gave Day bad advice, telling her to sell, at a loss, three hotels, in Palo Alto, Dallas and Atlanta and some oil leases in Kentucky and Ohio.

During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the children were killed as part of a satanic ritual.

For example, some of these criticisms were famously asserted by Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial.

He cast doubts on hellfire, asserted that unbaptised children were not damned, and questioned the power of excommunication.

Cornelius van Bynkershoek asserted that the bases of international law were customs and treaties commonly consented to by various states, while John Jacob Moser emphasized the importance of state practice in international law.

# Regarding the written tradition opposing the making and veneration of images, they asserted that icons were part of unrecorded oral tradition ( parádosis, sanctioned in Orthodoxy as authoritative in doctrine by reference to, Basil the Great, etc.

Irenaeus asserted that four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, were canonical scripture.

And that this power which the prophetic word calls God, as has been also amply demonstrated, and Angel, is not numbered different in name only like the light of the sun but is indeed something numerically distinct, I have discussed briefly in what has gone before ; when I asserted that this power was begotten from the Father, by His power and will, but not by abscission, as if the essence of the Father were divided ; as all other things partitioned and divided are not the same after as before they were divided: and, for the sake of example, I took the case of fires kindled from a fire, which we see to be distinct from it, and yet that from which many can be kindled is by no means made less, but remains the same.

He then sold her some capsules that he asserted would take care of the tumors and cysts until she could collect the money for buying his machine.

and a policeman asserted he had found a pair of brass knuckles in Art's pocket once when he had occasion to collar the Great First Baseman for some forgotten reason.

Since P was never asserted as the only sufficient condition for Q, other factors could account for Q ( while P was false ).

For example, in some groups, the group operation is commutative, and this can be asserted with the introduction of an additional axiom, but without this axiom we can do quite well developing ( the more general ) group theory, and we can even take its negation as an axiom for the study of non-commutative groups.

Argument from moral order are based on the asserted need for moral order to exist in the universe.

Chomsky asserted that these leaders " showed their contempt for democracy ".

The defenders of hunting and ritual slaughter asserted that lawful violence is in fact non-violence ; according to them sacrificial killing is not killing, but is meant for the welfare of the whole world.

Under the Berne Convention, copyrights for creative works do not have to be asserted or declared, as they are automatically in force at creation: an author need not " register " or " apply for " a copyright in countries adhering to the Berne Convention.

In its " Agreement ", on August 22, 1973, the Chamber of Deputies of Chile asserted that Chilean democracy had broken down and called for " redirecting government activity ", to restore constitutional rule.

Note: Concentrations of Cr ( VI ) in US municipal drinking water supplies reported by EWG are within likely, natural background levels for the areas tested and not necessarily indicative of industrial pollution ( CalEPA Fact Sheet ), as asserted by EWG.

Speaking to Soviet officials in the aftermath of the crisis, Khrushchev asserted, " I know for certain that Kennedy doesn ’ t have a strong background, nor, generally speaking, does he have the courage to stand up to a serious challenge.

As the dominion leaders asserted themselves more and more at the meetings, it became clear that the time for ' imperial ' conferences was over.

Thus, in Wilson v. U. S. ( 1911 ), he asserted that corporate officers could not resist a subpoena for company records by invoking the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination.

Experts also asserted a need for strict conservation efforts.

British journalist Duncan Campbell and New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager asserted in the 1990s that the United States was exploiting ECHELON traffic for industrial espionage, rather than military and diplomatic purposes.

He asserted that the best methods for increasing the strength of memory are:

On 9 May 2008, the Falkland Islands Government asserted that the minefields which represent 0. 1 % of the available farmland on the islands " present no long term social or economic difficulties for the Falklands " and that the impact of clearing the mines would cause more problems than containing them.

In David Morgan's book Monty Python Speaks, Cleese asserted that Chapman, although officially his co-writer for many of their sketches, contributed comparatively little in the way of direct writing.

However, Wiesel's organization asserted there would be no legal " basis for reparations or territorial claims ", anticipating Turkish anxieties that it could prompt financial or property claims.

University of Chicago Professor Peter Novick, whose work Finkelstein described as providing the " initial stimulus " for The Holocaust Industry, asserted in the July 28, 2000 Jewish Chronicle ( London ) that the book is replete with " false accusations ", " egregious misrepresentations ", " absurd claims " and " repeated mis-statements " (" A charge into darkness that sheds no light ").