assert

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• Various Saudi government publications gathered for this study, most of which are in Arabic, assert that it is a religious obligation for Muslims to hate Christians and Jews and warn against imitating, befriending, or helping them in any way, or taking part in their festivities and celebrations;

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  1. transitive verb To state or express positively; affirm: asserted his innocence.
  2. transitive verb To defend or maintain (one's rights, for example).
  3. idiom assert oneself To act boldly or forcefully, especially in defending one's rights or stating an opinion.

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  • One may assert, and it may be true, that "most people arrested for a crime are found guilty" -- but that is no reason simply to stop having trials and assume all persons arrested are guilty.
  • It sounds reasonable to assert, as I did, that reports of continued declines in economic activity helped to cause Monday's falls, and that the failure of the European summit to reach an agreement over the weekend was also a negative. —  Floyd Norris
  • As shown in the latest assert, the Event class has got a before (Date) method, and all of Date's methods. import java. text.
  • "To assert, as some have, that there's a culture of violence, is inappropriate and utterly inaccurate." —  Top Stories - Google News
  • To assert, as the scientific evidence seems to, that in most cases you just can't turn a 120 pound adult into a 240 pound adult and even if you can she won't stay there, and vice versa - that flies in the face of the idea that one body type is normal, acceptable, and virtuous, and others are aberrations. —  Kate Harding's Shapely Prose
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  1. Latin asserere, assert- : ad-, ad- + serere, to join; see ser-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin assertus, past participle (Middle Latin assertare, freq.) of asserere, adserere, join to, adserere aliquem manu (or simply adserere) in libertatem or in servitutem, declare one free or a slave by laying hands upon him, hence free from, protect, defend, lay claim to, assert, declare, from ad, to, + serere, join, range in a row, = Greek ει-ρειν, bind, fasten: see series and serried.
 

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