Some remain skeptical of Pyongyang's assertion the flood was an accident.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

The assertion is not that there is no other god, but that Israel will have no other god before Yahweh.

这个主张并不是说这里没有其他的上帝,而是说犹太人不能再有除耶和华以外的神。

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In this final assertion of the body Milton, I think, is able to recover his theodicy, his attempt to justify the ways of God here on earth.

在这最后的肉体的宣言中，弥尔顿，达成了他的斯奥迪斯，他想要证明上帝在人间之所为的企图。

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Canada-based Research in Motion,or RIM, disputes the UAE's assertion.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

At the same time, and I think very much in line with the assertion that humans are created in the image of God, Humans are not, in fact, gods.

同时，我觉得它与这一主张也是一致的,人类是依照上帝的形象所创造的，事实上，人类并不是神灵。

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's assertion in a Friday news conference in New York that the new facility was not in violation of International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines and would be for energy purposes seemed to only increase the degree of anger on Capitol Hill.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Virtue means for him a kind of manly self-assertion, audacity, ruthlessness, a reliance on one's own arms and calculated use of cruelty to achieve one's ends.

美德对他而言,是一种具男子气概的自作主张，胆大，冷酷，自助，且还会算计使用残忍手段,来达致目标。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"You can't say,'We're going to do less because those numbers are pessimistic.' You say,'We have to do what we do in light of those numbers.'" House minority leader John Boehner repeated his assertion that President Obama has largely ignored Republican proposals on the budget and economy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

I would say that the crux, the kernel of the critique, a lot of things you can argue about-- The kernel of the critique lies in this assertion which derives its force from an interpretation of pictures on pottery.

其症结所在,批判思想的核心,很多事情都可以争论,核心在于一种论断,该论断是从彩釉的画面中,得到启示的

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Each of us contains these two warring, you might say, elements within us, both self-assertion and fear of the consequence of self-assertion. The question is for Hobbes, ? how do we tame these passions?

我们每个人都有这两种，矛盾的元素，即对自负之结果的自负和恐惧,对霍布斯来说，这个问题就是，我们怎样控制情绪？

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