What does that mean? Well, explanation is an assertion about what's there, unseen, that accounts for what's seen.

But how many of you would be able to make a confident assertion about a piece of classical music?

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There cannot be a more true assertion.

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increasing assertion of the role of nuclear weapons in military doctrines

The author has not rebutted this assertion, which she herself passed on.

We welcome the Secretary General's assertion that Article 51 of the Charter should not be changed.

Moreover, all the relevant national legislation is unambiguous in its assertion of equality between women and men.

Some reporters would contest that assertion Sanders has not held a White House press briefing since 10 September.

(a) The activities of Mr. Choi, contrary to the assertion of the Government, were not illegal and criminal.

In July 1914, diplomats were trying to devise a solution that would permit the Habsburg Empire to deal with the cross border police investigation that was inevitable after a terrorist attack. Political leaders were thinking about national revival and assertion.

4.1 In its submissions of 21 June 2002, the State party's principal assertion is that the communication is inadmissible.

In 1931, the experts were preoccupied with the complexities posed by the combination of reparations and war debts arising out of World War I with large private sector indebtedness. Populist political movements in many countries were still thinking about national revival and assertion.

As a rule of thumb your code should always be able to work correctly if assertion checking is not activated.

UNDP experience in the implementation of the RBM initiative affirmed the assertion by JIU about the key components of a solid RBM system (a) planning, programming, budgeting process (b) monitoring and evaluation (c) delegation of authority and accountability (d) staff performance management and contracts.

However, the debate will not be on the substance of the claim but only on the validity of the assertion of immunity.

The second is the assertion that a state party has a duty to provide compensation where such foreign claims are not successful.

This assertion, however, does not necessarily lead to the application mutatis mutandis of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

ABU DHABI Speeches by politicians on inequality tend to be short on facts and long on ideological assertion. In developing and emerging economies, one charitable explanation for the poor quality of public discourse about income inequality is that data on income distribution are often unavailable or dubious.

This assertion, too, is supported by inadequately substantiated, not to say contradictory, arguments from the complainant in his comments of 4 August 2002.

The Committee notes that the author has neither disputed nor dismissed the State party's assertion that recourse to compensation is an effective remedy.

This contradicts the assertion by the authors that the court supposedly acknowledged the lack of equality in the questioning of the defence experts.

She was surprised at the low rate of participation of women in political life and challenged the assertion that women had little political awareness.

Some practices, especially in the developed countries, have erroneously lent credence to the assertion that the two sets of rights are essentially different in nature.

I must emphasize the basic distinction between an assertion that tests will go underground and an assurance that no further atmospheric tests will take place.

A direct, unqualified assertion about the benefits of free trade has now been transformed into a statement adorned by all kinds of ifs and buts. Oddly, the knowledge that the professor willingly imparts with great pride to his advanced students is deemed to be inappropriate (or dangerous) for the general public.

The pro austerity argument is pure assertion, but it is meant to be a testable assertion, so econometricians have been busy trying to prove that the less the government spends, the faster the economy will grow. Indeed, just a year or two ago, expansionary fiscal contraction was all the rage, and a massive research effort went into proving its existence.

Some States have argued that by securing such assurances they are complying with the principle of non refoulement, but critics have taken issue with this assertion.

(b) The assertion made by the Government that Mr. Choi's detention in Yantai Municipal Prison No. 2 offers the best conditions in the city is false.

This assertion is further maintained to the effect that positive rights are costly, while it is without economic consequences for the State to abstain from certain acts.

Mr. Vohidov (Uzbekistan) said that the assertion that Uzbekistan showed no willingness to cooperate with the international community on human rights issues did not correspond to reality.

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In the absence of an authoritative basis for a determination of an illegality, the unilateral assertion of illegality would be self serving and inimical to stability of relations.

However, the Panel notes that the available literature generally supports the assertion that approximately 145,000 refugees entered Iran between 2 August 1990 and the end of March 1991.

We concur with the assertion that balanced and equitable international trade is one of the important ways to assist the developing and least developed countries in achieving the MDGs.

11.1 By submission of 15 December 2004, the State party takes issue with the author's assertion that the scope of the Committee's admissibility decision includes hunting, trapping and gathering rights.

The Panel finds that the available information does not support Saudi Arabia's assertion of ecological damage to its fisheries resources as a result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

The investigation has repercussions beyond the question of whether the American led bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria is succeeding (an assertion now made by a growing number of Defense officials).

Nor did the source refute the assertion of the Government that Ms. Bakhmina has been able to meet her lawyers without any restriction on the length and nature of the meetings.

Annexation is nothing more than assertion of effective control through political, economic and military means over the territory of another State, as is the case with Abkhazia and former South Ossetia.

This symposium once again emphasized the important assertion of the Three no changes There is no change in the role and function of non public sector in our economic and social development !

(The idolaters will be told) Your gods have refuted your assertion. You can neither avert (your doom) nor receive any help. We shall make the wicked among you taste of severe punishment.