Postmodern theory asserts that the attempt to canonise modernism " after the fact " is doomed to undisambiguable contradictions.

Lauri Honko asserts that, in some cases, a society will reenact a myth in an attempt to reproduce the conditions of the mythical age.

" McLane asserts the name " Ragged Arse Island " might have been an attempt to render " Racketash ," Abnaki for " island rocks.

The traditional ( WRR ) view of the codes is based strictly on their applicability to the Torah, and asserts that any attempt to study the codes outside of this context is invalid.

Apap has drawn particular attention to a passage of the Appeal in which Walker encourages blacks to “ ever make an attempt to gain freedom or natural right, from under our cruel oppressors and murderers, until you see your ways clear ; when that hour arrives and you move, be not afraid or dismayed .” Apap has interpreted Walker ’ s words as a play on the Biblical injunction to “ be not afraid or dismayed .” As he points out, “‘ be not afraid or dismayed ’ is a direct quote from 2 Chronicles 20. 15, where the Israelites are told to ‘ be not afraid or dismayed ’ because God would fight the battle for them and save them from their enemies without their having to lift a finger .” In the Bible, all the Israelites are expected to do is pray, but Walker asserts that the black community must " move.

Fleming asserts that MGM executives Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling, in an attempt to save the reputation of their star Beery, fabricated a story about college students attacking Healy, immediately followed by a four-month trip to Europe for Beery.

Longerich asserts that Müller was with Himmler at Flensburg on 11 May, and accompanied Himmler and other SS officers in their unsuccessful attempt to escape capture by the Allies and reach Bavaria on foot.

The tribe asserts a significant level of sovereignty, which can cause tension when outsiders attempt to visit.

He asserts that " intelligent design " as such originated in the 1989 textbook Of Pandas and People, and that claims of links with earlier works were " a desperate attempt to obfuscate the basic historical point ID's origins ".

Borusa asserts to Rassilon that he is here for immortality, and while the other Doctors attempt to stop him, the First Doctor tells them to hold off.

" Hyper-Calvinism in its attempt to square all truth with God's purpose to save the elect, denies that there is a universal command to repent and believe, and asserts that we have only warrant to invite to Christ those who are conscious of a sense of sin and need.

According to Creer it was intended to be an aid in cleaning the locomotive via the use of a carriage washer, representing an attempt to reduce labour requirements during the post-war period, whereas Bradley asserts that the intention was to lift the steam and exhaust gases away from the cab.

He also asserts that the novel was born out of an attempt to write a story about a woman ( an idea he credits to Kathy Acker ) since his previous books had been about " men who found life a task they never doubted until an unexpected collision opened their eyes and changed their habits.

Carrithers also asserts that the question which underlay the Buddha's quest was " in what may I place lasting relevance?

Rather, it asserts that one must place their will in harmony with the natural universe.

The battle took place six weeks after the first report of an invasion, and historian Hans Delbrück asserts that they could not have possibly made the march in time.

Its cultivation spread into the Mediterranean world by way of Iran from Syria: Pliny in his Natural History asserts that pistacia, " well known among us ," was one of the trees unique to Syria, and in another place, that the nut was introduced into Italy by the Roman consul in Syria, Lucius Vitellius the Elder ( consul in Syria in 35 AD ) and into Hispania at the same time by Flaccus Pompeius.

Anton accuses Vincent of fraud and asserts that Vincent is unworthy of his place at Gattaca.

As for the place, Hesiod asserts that a bronze anvil falling from heaven would fall 9 days before it reached the Earth.

In the West, criminal cases usually place the burden of proof on the prosecutor ( expressed in the Latin brocard ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat, " the burden of proof rests on who asserts, not on who denies ").

The Bible asserts that children were sacrificed at a place called the Tophet (" roasting place ") to the god Moloch.

Kings inherited the duty to ensure Maat remained in place and they with Ra are said to " live on Maat ", with Akhenaten ( r. 1372-1355 BCE ) in particular emphasising the concept to a degree that, John D. Ray asserts, the kings contemporaries viewed as intolerance and fanaticism.

His place of birth is matter of dispute, but William Bulleyn, who was a native of Ely, and probably knew him when he was in the monastery there, asserts that he was born " beyonde the cold river of Twede " ( River Tweed, i. e. in Scotland ).

Leban asserts that Cao Cao chose Guandu as the place to make his stand because of his superior understanding of the relation between topography, logistics, and tactics over Yuan Shao.

He asserts that " you have here a clear statement that the Blessed Virgin has been assumed in her body, where was the place of the Lord's feet ..."

Steve Mason asserts that, if the Massacre of the Innocents had taken place as reported in Matthew, it would have been strange for Josephus not to mention it, and that the massacre may hence be non-historical.

The ONS asserts that recruitment and training of quality staff in South Wales, where data collection and analysis already takes place, will ensure that there is no risk to the quality of its services and that it is managing the risks associated with the changes which it is implementing in a planned and gradual way.

Colebatch ( 2004 ) also asserts that Colebatch resigned as premier because he was not ambitious and had not wanted the job in the first place.

Although inter-subjective objective validity in the natural sciences derives from universal laws of nature, Cassirer asserts that an analogous type of inter-subjective objective validity takes place in the cultural sciences.

Instead, he asserts that there is no privileged place in the brain where consciousness happens.

On 8 April 2012, José Esteves received from Fernando Farinha Simões an 18 page confession which asserts that the CIA and Oliver North were behind the plot to place the bomb on the plane.

Biskind, however, asserts that Lucas created a " nightmarishly explicit image of threatening female sexuality " in the form of the sarlacc: " The Jabba episode culminates in an explicit vagina dentata fantasy, as Luke and his pals have to walk a phallic gangplank into the pullulating maw — festooned with long, curved teeth — of the giant sarlacc in its ' nesting place '.

Blanter's postwar songs include " The Migrant Birds Are Flying " ( 1949 ), a patriotic Soviet song in which the narrator watches migratory birds fly away and asserts that he can think of no better place to be than the Motherland, and " Dark-Eyed Cossack Girl " ( Russian: Черноглазая казачка ), written especially for the bass-baritone Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov.

The name asserts the belief that the concentration of the forces of wisdom at a particular place will lead to an emergence of talents, who in turn will enhance the fame and status of the place.

In 1655 Bristol Castle and other forts there were ordered to be demolished, in pursuance of a general scheme for diminishing the number of garrisons in England, though Ludlow asserts that Bristol was selected because Cromwell did not dare to " trust a person of so much honour and worth with a place of that importance ".

Bancroft notes that Mather considered witches " among the poor, and vile, and ragged beggars upon Earth ," and Bancroft asserts that Mather considered the people against the witch trials to be witch advocates.

Because deism asserts God without accepting claims of divine revelation, it appeals to people from both ends of the religious spectrum.

Louis believed in the divine right of kings, which asserts that a monarch is above everyone except God, and is therefore not answerable to the will of his people, the aristocracy, or the Church.

The amended constitution asserts that while it is the entitlement of " every person born in the island of Ireland … to be part of the Irish Nation " and to hold Irish citizenship, " a united Ireland shall be brought about only by peaceful means with the consent of a majority of the people, democratically expressed, in both jurisdictions in the island.

The Marxist social class theory of proletarian internationalism asserts that members of the working class should act in solidarity with working people in other countries in pursuit of a common class interest, rather than focusing on their own countries.

Central to this doctrine, NOI theology asserts that black people ’ s experience of slavery was the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and therefore, black people are the seed of Abraham referred to in the Bible, in Genesis 15: 13 – 14:

In addition, the report asserts that the towers ' stairwells were not adequately reinforced to provide emergency escape for people above the impact zones.

The system becomes fully operational in 1381, when it counts 59, 873, 305 people living in China ( the historian Timothy Brook asserts that the number was much higher, somewhere between 65 million and 75 million ).

Drawing from the biblical motif on the poor, Gutierrez asserts that God is revealed as having a preference for those people who are “ insignificant ,” “ marginalized ,” “ unimportant ,” “ needy ,” despised ” and “ defenseless.

Their settlement was connected with the legendary history of the Ionic people in Attica, which asserts that the colonists were led by Neleus and Androclus, sons of Codrus, the last king of Athens.

He believes that " The well-known free will defence in relation to moral evil asserts that a world with a possibility of sinful people is better than one with perfectly programmed machines.

The constitution asserts that the Emperor is merely a symbol and that he derives " his position from the will of the people with whom resides sovereign power " ( Article 1 ).

Individual rights under the Japanese constitution are rooted in Article 13 where the constitution asserts the right of the people " to be respected as individuals " and, subject to " the public welfare ", to " life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

In the third book, Bossuet asserts that " God establishes kings as his ministers, and reigns through them over the people.

" Through media advertisements, production and distribution of literature, producing music and organizing person-to-person evangelism, the organization asserts that " a specifically Jewish mission " is necessary, saying, " Jewish people tend to dismiss evangelistic methods and materials that are couched in Christian lingo, because they reinforce the assumption that Jesus is for ' them ' not ' us '.

For example, one text asserts " when you adopt the " but " word, people will remember what you said afterwards.

Only one chapter of the Mishnah deals with theological issues ; it asserts that three kinds of people will have no share in " the world to come :" those who deny the resurrection of the dead, those who deny the divinity of the Torah, and Epicureans ( who deny divine supervision of human affairs ).

The poet and mythologist Robert Graves asserts that certain elements of that mythology originate with the native Pelasgian people ( namely the parts related to his concept of the White Goddess, an archetypical Earth Goddess ) drawing additional support for his conclusion from his interpretations of other ancient literature: Irish, Welsh, Greek, Biblical, Gnostic, and medieval writings.

He “ asserts that forts were built by the Hunza people without any objection or interference from the Chinese at Dafdar, Qurghan, Ujadhbhai, Azar on the Yarkand River and at three or four other places in Raskam .”

The doctrine of total depravity asserts that people are by nature not inclined or even able to love God wholly with heart, mind, and strength, but rather all are inclined by nature to serve their own will and desires and to reject the rule of God.

Noam Chomsky and others have brought critical thinking to the very concept of leadership and have provided an analysis that asserts that people abrogate their responsibility to think and will actions for themselves.

Although many advocated annexation, this was prevented by the Teller Amendment, which states " hereby disclaims any disposition of intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.

" He asserts that both cultures employ the same practical common-sense, and both science and magic are ways in which people delve into theory, into what occurs beyond that basic logic.

Christian Identity asserts in addition that these ( White European ) Israelites are still God's Chosen People, that Jesus was an Israelite of the tribe of Judah, and that modern Jews are not at all Israelites nor Hebrews, but are instead descended from people with Turco-Mongolian blood, or Khazars, or are descendants of the biblical Esau-Edom, who traded his birthright for a bowl of red stew ( Genesis 25: 29 – 34 ).