The authors rather fancy themselves as philosophers, though they would presumably balk at the description, since they confidently assert on their first page that “philosophy is dead.”

这两位作者相当自负其作为哲学家——他们大概不会明写出这一点，然而他们在第一页就自信地断言：“哲学死了。”

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Critics of your book assert that you're trying to force radical changes on the entire country.

批评你的书的人断言，你试图迫使整个国家进行彻底的改变。

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Russia, a signatory in 1997, already has used the treaty's legal authority to assert its rights to mineral riches on its continental shelf in the Arctic.

于1997年签署该条约的俄罗斯已经开始利用条约赋予的合法权力来主张其对自己部分北冰洋大陆架矿产资源的所有权。

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Republicans oppose a proposed surtax on high wage earnings to pay for the new system, and assert that plan amounts to a government takeover of health care that would be far more expensive than Democrats and the president project.

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Pelosi has faced opposition from fiscally-conservative Democrats still nervous about the longer-term cost of the legislation,and opposition from some her in party who assert that language in the measure does not go far enough to ensure a continuing ban on the use of federal funds for abortion.

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Slatin added that the key is what kind of management influence Bank of America will want to assert on Countrywide.

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Crest did assert on that call that in their conversations with large institutional shareholders few were enamored of the Sprint bid.

FORBES: Fat Lady Still Not Singing In the Sprint Acquisition of Clearwire

By the time the eighth came around Munroe was well behind on points and although he tried to assert himself on the fight Nishioka's movement was too cute, as he continued to break the spirit of the Leicester man with accurate body shots, while also opening up a cut below his right eye.

BBC: Rendall Munroe loses super-bantamweight world title bid