Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College Study Shows Women Have low Self-Esteem. It reported on a study that showed that women had, on the average, more interest in personal friendships and less ambition for and anticipation of professional success than their male counterparts. Well and good, but the article went on to assert that therefore the women had less self-esteem than...
...what the title of the article would indicate, but the authors seek to convince us of this by holding up characteristics that have made American males obnoxious to others and dangerous to themselves, as benchmarks of self-esteem. If the authors really wish to support their claim, rather than assert it as dogma, perhaps studies of incidences of depression or of psychological profiles or even of degree of social interaction with the community would be far better to point...
Elaine Holpuch, the freshman center who is just starting to assert what could be a dominating presence in Ivy League basketball, led the Crimson attack with a game-high 14 points and ten rebounds...
...Elaine played an outstanding game. Because she's starting to assert herself, that's making a big difference for us," Kleinfelder added...
However, I assert that a realistic look at the world around you will show you that at this stage of the game, the two aspects are intertwined, each supporting the other. The South African government's policy of apartheid is political in that it holds that racial segregation is a necessary and beneficent arrangement and it is economic in that it rests upon a system of exploitation of the labors of one race for the benefit of another; the sale of diamonds by a company which is a mainstay of the regime perpetuates both aspects. Similarly, a society which channels...