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One example of this was his assertion that `` all servile revolts must be dealt with by physical force ''.
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.
If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.
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.
In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.
The language was later dubbed Enochian, due to Dee's assertion that the Biblical Patriarch Enoch had been the last human ( before Dee and Kelley ) to know the language.
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 .”
He was in a unique position to make such a holistic assertion because he had previously compiled a review of biome classification.
Before Pilate on the other hand it was merely the assertion of his royal dignity which gave ground for his condemnation.
However, Chicanos generally do not agree that " chicamo " was ever a word used within the culture, as its assertion is thus far entirely unsubstantiated.
While his assertion was not initially well-received, later intensive field studies of fossil beds lent weight to his claim.
Khrushchev increased the perception of a missile gap when he loudly boasted to the world that the USSR was building missiles " like sausages " whose numbers and capabilities actually were nowhere close to his assertion.
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, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.
One important distinction between the post Constantine I ( reigned 306 AD-312 AD ) emperors and their pagan predecessors was cesaropapism, the assertion that the Emperor ( or other head of state ) is also the head of the Church.
Some of the Syriac terms that Ephrem used to describe his community were later used to describe monastic communities, but the assertion that he was monk is anachronistic.
However, Watson and Crick found fault in her steadfast assertion that, according to her data, a helical structure was not the only possible shape for DNA — so they had a dilemma.
The Gaon affirmed Rabbi Chaim ’ s assertion, and said that he once began to create a person when he was a child, under the age of 13, but during the process he received a sign from Heaven ordering him to desist because of his tender age.
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.
Critics of the East German state have claimed that the state's commitment to communism was a hollow and cynical tool Machiavellian in nature, but this assertion has been challenged by studies that have found that the East German leadership was genuinely committed to the advance of scientific knowledge, economic development, and social progress.

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*" 19 " is a 1985 song by Paul Hardcastle, including sampled soundbites taken from a documentary about the Vietnam War in which 19 is claimed to have been the average age of United States soldiers killed in the conflict ( an assertion which is widely disputed ).
As a result, these machines were widely considered to be faster than Intel PCs of similar CPU clock speed at launch, an assertion that was backed up by benchmarks performed by Byte Magazine, which prompted Apple to create the " Snail " and " Toasted Bunnies " television commercials.
This assertion has gained widespread acceptance and is found widely in recent literature on the Lenape, including in the websites of purported Lenape people.
Yet somewhat contrary to the evidence, this assertion is not widely supported in psychology.
He said Mr. Salter's ideas have become so widely accepted that he is often not formally cited when contemporary writers in behavior therapy refer to assertion training, expressiveness training, ' getting in touch with one's feelings ,' all early ideas of Mr. Salter's that became popular later.
This assertion has been widely challenged, and led to criticism of the model.

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However, it could further be argued that the ability to conflict with truth is not an appropriate representation of accepted definitions of power, which negates the assertion that a deity does not have infinite powers.
The assertion that the first pathways were the trails made by animals has not been universally accepted, since in many cases animals do not follow constant paths.
The assertion that " all " entities postulated in scientific theories, including numbers, should be accepted as real is justified by confirmation holism.
Orff's assertion that he had been anti-Nazi during the war was accepted by the American denazification authorities, who changed his previous category of " gray unacceptable " to " gray acceptable ", enabling him to continue to compose for public presentation, and to enjoy the royalties that the popularity of Carmina Burana had earned for him.
In an earlier paper Dreman also refuted the assertion by Ray Ball that these higher returns could be attributed to higher beta, whose research had been accepted by efficient market theorists as explaining the anomaly in neat accordance with modern portfolio theory.
The IBA accepted ATV's assertion that ATV Midlands Ltd planned to take a more local identity, and awarded the contract to ATV Midlands Ltd on the basis that further changes were to be implemented, including that the parent company Associated Communications Corporation would divest 49 % of its shareholding in ATV Midlands Ltd in an attempt to introduce local shareholders and that ATV Midlands Ltd's registered office should be within the region.
William the Conqueror had accepted a papal banner and the distant blessing of Pope Alexander II upon his invasion, but had successfully rebuffed the Pope's assertion after the successful outcome, that he should come to Rome and pay homage for his fief, under the general provisions of the " Donation of Constantine ".
Years later he claimed he had actually supported Haughey, but not everyone accepted this assertion.
We signal our agreement or approbation of a previously uttered assertion or confirm some commonly held belief or imply that what we are asserting is likely to be accepted by others in the same context.
Ultimately, however, the king accepted Paschasius ' assertion, and the physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist became the dominant belief in the Roman Catholic faith.
Thus, Makélélé had willingly accepted the call-up to the national team and was not forced by Domenech, contrary to Mourinho's assertion.

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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.
His father gave him a basic education, but until the outbreak of the Revolution, he was a domestic servant, and from 1785 occupied the office of commissaire à terrier, assisting the nobles and priests in the assertion of their feudal rights over the peasants.
Among the interesting features of this version of the flood myth, are the identification, through interpretatio graeca, of the Sumerian god Enki with the Greek god Cronus, the father of Zeus ; and the assertion that the reed boat constructed by Xisuthros survived, at least until Berossus ' day, in the " Corcyrean Mountains " of Armenia.
Already in 1955, Jean-Pierre Serre had used the analogy of vector bundles with projective modules to formulate Serre's conjecture, which states that every finitely generated projective module over a polynomial ring is free ; this assertion is correct, but was not settled until 20 years later.
* Qutb's assertion that slavery is now illegal under Islam, as its lawfulness was only temporary, existing only " until the world devised a new code of practice, other than enslavement.
Not believing the flight crews assertion that the plane lacked enough fuel to fly to Australia, they force it to remain in the air until it runs of out of fuel and ditches in the Indian Ocean 500 yards ( 457 m ) off Grande Comore island near Mitsamiouli in the Comoros.
He popularized the sticky bead argument which was said to be originally due, anonymously, to Richard Feynman, for the claim that physically meaningful gravitational radiation is indeed predicted by general relativity, an assertion which was controversial up until about 1955.
After the fall of Lisbon, he purported to rule the country from Terceira Island, in the Azores, where he established a government in exile until 1583 ; António even had coins minted — a typical assertion of sovereignty and royalty.

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