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verb adfirmare, advance, affirm, allege in support, announce, annunciate, argue for, assever, asseverate, attest, aver, avouch, avow, certify, claim, confirmare, declare, depose, dicere, emphasize, enunciate, express, insist upon, maintain, plead one's case, plead one's cause, profess, pronounce, propound, recite, relate, set forth, state, state as true, stress, urge, urge reaaons for

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Below, phrases like One cannot say that S is true, and so forth, will be used to express this fact about an ideal assertor, given information I.

Truth-making and the Alethic Undecidability of the liar/Los hacedores de verdad y la indecidibilidad aletica del mentiroso

If he complains to the waiter, Bob knows he's an assertor (a lot of drive, and may prove to be too pushy.

Hiring the wrong person costs you three times their annual salary

The inscription in the Sala dei Gigli supports this association: 'BRVTVS EGO ASSERTOR PATRIAE REGVMQ(V)E FVGATOR'--'I am Brutus, the liberator of my country and the bane of kings.

Exemplary gestures and 'authentic' physiognomies: Eckart Marchand offers an interpretation of Ghirlandaio's Famous Men in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

As one reviewer noted, Adams's career exposed before any other the "peculiar trial of a female presenting herself as the maker of bargains and the assertor [sic] of literary claims" ("Literary Notices" 239).

The courtesies of authorship: Hannah Adams and authorial ethics in the early republic

30) It is not just the terms auctor and auctoritas that are finding a vernacular meaning, but others such as compilator, collector, editor, scriptor, commentator, actor, assertor (Minnis, pp.

Articulating the author: Gower and the French Vernacular Codex

52) The scholium on Epicurus voluptatis assertor begins with a hint of "the rehabilitation of Epicurus" that Erasmus observed in process in his own day.

Reading Jerome in the Renaissance: Erasmus' reception of the Adversus Jovinianum *

The assertor of the privilege must have a reasonable expectation of confidentiality, either that the information disclosed is intrinsically confidential, or by showing that: he had a subjective intent of confidentiality.