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  • Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself;   (source)
    assert = state or say
  • She uses statistics to support her assertion that the regulators are barring competition in the industry rather than preventing abuses.
    assertion = claim
  • She asserts that her opponent lacks managerial experience.
    asserts = says
  • Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?   (source)
    assert = say (that something is true)
  • He claimed that he'd used only his hands to punish POWs, an assertion that would have riled the men who'd been kicked, clubbed with his kendo stick and baseball bat, and whipped in the face with his belt.   (source)
    assertion = statement
  • I had to take it back. But not here. ... At Devon, where every stick of furniture didn't assert that Finny was a part of it, I could make it up to him.   (source)
    assert = say (that something is true)
  • "Today, Wonderland will be rid of Alyss Heart for good!" Jack of Diamonds asserted with a puffing out of his already puffed-out belly.   (source)
    asserted = said forcefully
  • So Ralph asserted his chieftainship and could not have chosen a better way if he had thought for days.   (source)
    asserted = made a non-verbal statement claiming
  • He said in the famous "acid" tone that Counsel knew so well: "Do I understand you to assert that women are not subject to homicidal mania?"   (source)
    assert = say (that something is true)
  • The nights become quiet and the hunt for copper driving-bands and the silken parachutes of the French star-shells begins. Why the driving-bands are so desirable no one knows exactly. The collectors merely assert that they are valuable.   (source)
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  • "I've done some nice things out on Long Island," asserted Mr. McKee.   (source)
    asserted = said
  • Already, however, the legal tongues are wagging, and one young law student is loudly asserting that the rights of the owner are already completely sacrificed, his property being held in contravention of the statues of mortmain, since the tiller, as emblemship, if not proof, of delegated possession, is held in a dead hand.   (source)
    asserting = saying
  • Gottlieb had asserted that they produced doubtful vaccines,   (source)
    asserted = said (something is true -- especially something disputed)
  • But the thought asserted itself, and persisted, until it produced a vision of his body totally frozen.   (source)
    asserted = presented itself forcefully (as though to say it was true)
  • This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.   (source)
    assertion = statement that something is true
  • The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth.   (source)
    asserts = says (something is true -- especially something disputed)
  • My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again.   (source)
    assertion = statement
  • He still reasoned with her, but in vain.  She would not calculate, she would not compare. She would only smile and assert.   (source)
    assert = say (that something is true)
  • "Dodge Anders has escaped!" Jack of Diamonds asserted, louder than the others.   (source)
    asserted = said forcefully
  • Allen also asserted that aside from a camera at the front gate, there were no surveillance cameras on the property.   (source)
    asserted = said
  • Jack had meant to leave him in doubt, as an assertion of power; but Piggy by advertising his omission made more cruelty necessary.   (source)
    assertion = action to make a statement
  • "I wasn't given military orders," Watanabe said, contradicting the assertion he'd made in the 1995 interview.   (source)
    assertion = statement
  • He said that he'd only been trying to teach the POWs military discipline, and asserted that he'd been acting under orders.   (source)
    asserted = said
  • The gallery of onlookers, none of whom had witnessed the fight on the rue de Rivoli, came alive with loud assertions of "C'est vrai! C'est vrai!"   (source)
    assertions = statements
  • She asserted that it proved him to be a man of the bold free West.   (source)
    asserted = said (something is true)
  • I waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face, as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged.   (source)
    asserted = said (that something is true)
  • But this was immediately opposed by Tom Bertram, who asserted the part of Amelia to be in every respect the property of Miss Crawford, if she would accept it.   (source)
    asserted = saying forcefully
  • My father had often, during my imprisonment, heard me make the same assertion; when I thus accused myself, he sometimes seemed to desire an explanation, and at others he appeared to consider it as the offspring of delirium, and that, during my illness, some idea of this kind had presented itself to my imagination, the remembrance of which I preserved in my convalescence.   (source)
    assertion = statement
  • Susan was only acting on the same truths, and pursuing the same system, which her own judgment acknowledged, but which her more supine and yielding temper would have shrunk from asserting.   (source)
    asserting = saying forcefully
  • I looked upon him as the sort of person to be made a fuss with, and to make a fuss himself in any trifling disorder, and was chiefly concerned for those who had to nurse him; but now it is confidently asserted that he is really in a decline, that the symptoms are most alarming, and that part of the family, at least, are aware of it.   (source)
    asserted = said
  • This is no passing and idle word, but truth and fact; and the assertion is verified by the position to which these qualities have raised the state.   (source)
    assertion = statement that something is true
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  • To have a well-behaved dog, it is important that you assert your dominance.
    assert = be forceful in exercising influence
  • Walter was notified that he was being sent to Poland, to continue the assertion of Germany's authority over both the Poles and Jews alike.   (source)
    assertion = process of exercising (power and rights)
  • Louie looked up, saw a face he didn't recognize, and felt an upswell of dread, knowing that a new guard would likely assert his authority.   (source)
    assert = forcefully put into action
  • He seemed to have moved beyond his need to assert so adamantly his autonomy, his need to separate himself from his parents.   (source)
  • Criminals, he hinted, who were in cahoots with all sorts of folks — folks who'd stop at nothing to assert undue influence on him, because of his growing political connections.   (source)
  • Dill's maleness was beginning to assert itself.   (source)
    assert = to be forceful in exercising influence
  • There is no stage you comprehend better than the one you have just left, and as I watched the Jeeps almost asserting a wish to bounce up the side of Mount Washington at eighty miles an hour instead of rolling along this dull street, they reminded me, in a comical and a poignant way, of adolescents.   (source)
    asserting = forcefully exercising
  • Even now he dared not assert himself but held the Bible uncertainly in his hands and asked, "What would you have me read, sir?"   (source)
    assert = be forceful in exercising influence or rights
  • "Who you callin' punk?" B. J. had asserted without fear.   (source)
    asserted = forcefully exercised rights
  • He paused, and for a moment assumed again his air of a schoolmaster questioning a promising pupil: 'How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?'   (source)
    assert = forcefully put into action
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  • Her body asserted itself with a restless movement of her knee, and she stood up.   (source)
    asserted = was forceful
  • He has denied to me since that it was hysterics, and insisted that it was only his sense of humor asserting itself under very terrible conditions.   (source)
    asserting = forcefully exercising influence
  • Again a mystic sisterhood would contumaciously assert itself, as she met the sanctified frown of some matron, who, according to the rumour of all tongues, had kept cold snow within her bosom throughout life.   (source)
    assert = forcefully put into action
  • Chance—or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father's door—led me first to M. Krempe, professor of natural philosophy.   (source)
    asserted = exercised forceful influence
  • We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.   (source)
    assert = declare
  • Devon is sometimes considered the most beautiful school in New England, and even on this dismal afternoon its power was asserted.   (source)
    asserted = exercised forcefully
  • Maybe he was comforted by Louie's assertion of control, protected thereby from the awful possibilities that his imagination hung before him.   (source)
    assertion = process of exercising (power and rights)
  • Now September is asserting itself.   (source)
    asserting = showing
  • I could not but admire, even at such a moment, the way in which a dominant spirit asserted itself.   (source)
    asserted = exercised forcefully
  • Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air.   (source)
    assertions = exercises of influence
  • For, friend John, hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble into its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert himself and say at once and loud, "I am here!"   (source)
    assert = forcefully put into action
  • On the stage they would be set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands. They are, however, I am told, very harmless and rather wanting in natural self-assertion.   (source)
    assertion = exercise of power
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  • He found Mozi's assertion to be true.†   (source)
  • Does your friend's assertion shock you?†   (source)
  • "I know him too, and I tell you he's a Muslim," asserted the imam.†   (source)
  • "I admit," Teabing said, "the assertions are dire, but you must understand the Church's powerful motivations to conduct such a cover-up.†   (source)
  • That assertion attracted the full attention of law enforcement officials.†   (source)
  • It was not until Dutton went away to school that a streak of independence began to assert itself.†   (source)
  • Harry persisted in the common room that evening, but his assertion that the whole team would be devastated if Ron left was somewhat undermined by the fact that the rest of the team was sitting in a huddle in a distant corner, clearly muttering about Ron and casting him nasty looks.†   (source)
  • "If you maintain a C average, you can stay in school and get your degree," he asserted.†   (source)
  • When my father asserted his point of view, mine vanished.†   (source)
  • With a shudder, I thought again about my Aunt Martha's assertion that my mother was a little simple; no one had ever said she was a liar.†   (source)
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  • Eventually a pattern will assert itself.†   (source)
  • For the second time that evening Emily was obliged to assert her rights over written messages passing through her household.†   (source)
  • Once he stops walking, his foot asserts itself: there's a regular throbbing, it feels hot and tight, as if it's crammed into a tiny shoe.†   (source)
  • "Fourteen times," Morris asserted.†   (source)
  • In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations.†   (source)
  • Sampson asserted loudly.†   (source)
  • See the sketchbook, hear Mr. Harvey's assertions about the cornfield.†   (source)
  • Ben was still making assertions of affirmation when I hung up the phone.†   (source)
  • That's entitlement: his mother permits that casual incivility because she wants him to learn to assert himself with people in positions of authority.†   (source)
  • I SUPPOSE SHE ASSENTED TO THE ASSERTIONS ….†   (source)
  • "I can't either," said Arthur, who felt it was time he began to assert himself.†   (source)
  • Ender had been awarded the rank of admiral, too, and this was one of the few times he asserted the privileges the rank implied.†   (source)
  • Early on, he seemed to accept Lyme's assertion that the entrances couldn't be taken, and dropped out of the conversation entirely.†   (source)
  • As Andy continued to assert that there were no full bottles at the South Summit, Mike looked at me quizzically.†   (source)
  • Still, the vivid green of the grass—where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt—seems out of place.†   (source)
  • The assertion that the judicial police conducted shakedowns at San Ramon and threatened migrants is from Emilio Canteros Mendez, an engineer on the Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab railroad.†   (source)
  • Why don't you just assert yourself for a change?†   (source)
  • Alternation between dependency and self-assertion is common.†   (source)
  • Reports from abroad asserted, erroneously, that Jack the Ripper had returned.†   (source)
  • If nothing else, it is a radical assertion of the life force.†   (source)
  • She pushed his hands inward and up, her mind battling, and finally asserting her right to do this.†   (source)
  • When once or twice Sethe tried to assert herself--be the unquestioned mother whose word was law and who knew what was best--Beloved slammed things, wiped the table clean of plates, threw salt on the floor, broke a windowpane.†   (source)
  • He'd Be Amazed by the U.S. Meat Industry" — was perhaps its most accurate assertion.†   (source)
  • Inside the school doorways, I could see Mrs. Baez was pleased to see me asserting myself.†   (source)
  • We held each other tightly for a long time, our bodies clenched in an embrace that included elements of love, grief, tenderness, sex and struggle. how subtly we shifted emotions, found shadings, using the scantest movement of our arms, our loins, the slightest intake of breath, to reach agreement on our fear, to advance our competition, to assert our root desires against the chaos in our souls.†   (source)
  • His voice had a hard edge; he seemed to be asserting himself as the alpha baboon.†   (source)
  • It was too late for him to assert his claim to the discovery.†   (source)
  • She kept asserting everything was 'mock' this and 'mock' that.†   (source)
  • "I'm positive," asserted Mack adamantly.†   (source)
  • Both growers denied knowing you could use the plants for food; they both asserted that their interest was in the flower.†   (source)
  • My hunch is that he'll be in the tunnel now, to assert his control over his own destiny.†   (source)
  • Again, the presence of the old Reverend Mother asserted itself, but now there was a tripling of mutual awareness—two active and one that lay quietly absorbing.†   (source)
  • In all of the Oriental religions great value is placed on the Sanskrit doctrine of Tat tvam asi, "Thou art that," which asserts that everything you think you are and everything you think you perceive are undivided.†   (source)
  • As I stood there and thought through a scriptural basis for experiencing heaven without dying, I realized that Colton, in telling me he had died "for a little bit," had only been trying to match up his pastor-dad's assertion with what he knew to be the facts of his own experience.†   (source)
  • The Japanese man had asked about the land then, and asserted his wish to buy the seven acres his family had once held.†   (source)
  • That's a hair-raising assertion.†   (source)
  • Dede, you're plenty brave," Manolo asserted in his courtly way.†   (source)
  • An internationalist assertion—the only real nation is humanity.†   (source)
  • "That's the way they assert themselves these days," Henry said.†   (source)
  • But how did you come to forget that journalists actually have to back up their assertions?†   (source)
  • He put his hands on his hips and gave Kiyo a sternly comic look, squinting at him through one eye the way Papa would when he was asserting his authority.†   (source)
  • The analysts would call his family the source problem or say he drinks and smokes to assert his independence.†   (source)
  • "I do," asserted Jeod.†   (source)
  • Take away someone's aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves.†   (source)
  • The caller, a man, repeated his original assertion, and added, "I did it.†   (source)
  • He could reason with himself all he wanted and assert that an apology would always be accepted; he could remind himself that he was the parent here, the one in charge-but all of that was extremely hard to remember when you were sitting in a visiting room at a jail, with a woman on your left who was trying to play footsie with her lover across that forbidden red line, and a man on your right who was cursing a blue streak.†   (source)
  • There weren't any bombs," Mammal asserted.†   (source)
  • He could even see the truth of her loving and vehement assertion that it was he, his love, which had given her the courage to begin.†   (source)
  • Some asserted that it would hurt our case if we testified.†   (source)
  • My mind roves back to the battlefield and my first kill's assertion: that everyone on that field will die by my hand.†   (source)
  • And Mr. Sefelt has been asserting he needs no more medication.†   (source)
  • His letter, one council member asserted, was simply illegal.†   (source)
  • The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites.†   (source)
  • Never since I've been working for him," he asserted.†   (source)
  • As much as she asserts her independence, I still believe she's the same person she always was In the ways that really matter, she hasn't changed.†   (source)
  • And when the U.S. government asserts that terrorists raise money by selling black-market cigarettes, that acts as a rather jarring moral incentive.†   (source)
  • And then my mother's strength asserted itself.†   (source)
  • The few problems that did arise, it was asserted, were caused by "certain types," namely the rising numbers of poor Irish, German, and Scandinavian immigrants.†   (source)
  • The speech was brief, lean and mean, but firmly asserted that it was the graduates' day to celebrate, not the institution's.†   (source)
  • No one answered his assertion.†   (source)
  • " With considerable satisfaction, Jija asserted: "We women have become fearless.†   (source)
  • By nature or by exposure he had become like them, in their understatement,their blunt assertion of will.†   (source)
  • "I have heard about her gifts from a cousin who is very close to a dear friend of the sister-in-law of Lady Dorchester," Mademoiselle LeFarge asserts.†   (source)
  • His old friend Mouzafer was not yet too feeble to assert his will on the school he helped to build.†   (source)
  • After teaching them the basic steps, Allan deliberately stayed back, giving the kids room to assert themselves.†   (source)
  • In Weslaco, Belle Block remained unconvinced by this assertion.†   (source)
  • …on Japanese Canadians to the House and the Senate of Canada, April 1946 It is urgently submitted that the Orders-in-Council [for the deportation of Canadians of Japanese racial origin] are wrong and indefensible and constitute a grave threat to the rights and liberties of Canadian citizens, and that Parliament as guardian of these rights and the representative of the people, should assert its powers and require the Governor-in-Council to withdraw the Orders, for the following reasons.†   (source)
  • He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse-the things which often make dialogue impossible.†   (source)
  • There was a great uproar over the attempt on his life, and before Severo could do anything to stop it, an announcement appeared in the opposition paper in which veiled accusations were made against the oligarchy and it was asserted that the conservatives were even capable of this act, because they could not forgive Severo del Valle for throwing his lot in with the liberals despite his social class.†   (source)
  • 'I'm the best friend you've got and you don't even know it,' he asserted belligerently, and walked out of the chaplain's tent.†   (source)
  • Rudolph and Sachs are asserting their masculinity to the extreme.†   (source)
  • Still, he pushes forward gamely-there's a lot of ground to cover in this survey course-and by 8:55 he's tying social characteristics of lateeighteenth-century American progressives to the emergence of public educational institutions, schools that carried, he asserts, "an evangelical fervor in what they saw as the serious business of educating youngsters, especially the hordes of immigrants."†   (source)
  • I couldn't bring myself to tell my friends about the wonderful new insult that had just been added to my vocab list, but when I glanced at myself in the rearview mirror, Wesley's assertion that I was the unattractive, undesirable tagalong (more like dragalong) seemed to be confirmed.†   (source)
  • He always enjoyed being strict with the heifers, barking at them, asserting his authority.†   (source)
  • Maybe Alec felt a greater need to assert his Shadowhunter-ness here.†   (source)
  • And there was a way to test this assertion.†   (source)
  • And my father only added to it, for whenever I began to talk to him of my feelings toward Reb Saunders he invariably countered by defending him and by asserting that the faith of Jews like Reb Saunders had kept us alive through two thousand years of violent persecution.†   (source)
  • Sistrunk was admired and congratulated for his bold assertions and positions, while Kendrick Bost kept an arm on Lettie's shoulder as she whispered gravely to her loved ones.†   (source)
  • And then use the existence of the weapons caches to support their assertion that they were only acting in self-defense and you had refused to do your duty and protect them.†   (source)
  • I threw myself into the lectures, defending, asserting the rights of women; and though the girls continued to buzz around, I was careful to keep the biological and ideological carefully apart-which wasn't always easy, for it was as though many of the sisters were agreed among themselves (and assumed that I accepted it) that the ideological was merely a superfluous veil for the real concerns of life.†   (source)
  • Who is it that presumes to put an assertion (what shall I call it, my Lords ?†   (source)
  • " "I'm not trying to pry," I asserted, "I just want to know so …. so I don't do the same as …."†   (source)
  • And the columnist seemed to have been implying that Nellor asserted his will at Teknologik no less than he did at the Post.†   (source)
  • "He is possessed," she asserted firmly.†   (source)
  • They speak of wargs and skinchangers and assert that it was Robb Stark who slew my Wendel.†   (source)
  • When the president arrived, Garbo repeated her assertion that she didn't know Billings.†   (source)
  • He spoke in flat assertions.†   (source)
  • So much for chivalry, she thought, annoyed that he hadn't given her the opportunity to assert her independence.†   (source)
  • It's that continual question mark, as though to assert yourself and, so, okay, state something is either factually correct or something that you believe were too assertive for a woman, that it would be unfeminine.†   (source)
  • Only a fool would dispute such an assertion.†   (source)
  • Not the 'late at night' that was asserted by Cinque.†   (source)
  • But there are times when, much as I want to assert myself, know it's the right thing to do, I can't find the inner fortitude to follow through with a simple two-letter word.†   (source)
  • "They must be crazy," the cadet asserted.†   (source)
  • We are "fighting for the maintenance of law and order," they wrote, "to assert the strength and dignity of the government" against the threat of "dissolution, anarchy, and ruin."†   (source)
  • He answers with his mouth full, a feeble attempt to assert himself.†   (source)
  • This assertion isn't based in speculation.†   (source)
  • "The problem is that in order for us to assert that defense, she'd have to admit she killed him."†   (source)
  • …that being a surgeon was a matter of feeling before it was one of learning and that his long experience allowed him to judge whether the surgical sense was present in a person or not; he had made up his mind to observe him today during the operation and could assert—and for this he was very sorry—that he would never make a surgeon, for which reason he would advise him to go to some other department—internal medicine, for example, or dermatology—where everything depended on training.†   (source)
  • I was half expecting him to ask why, or assert himself and insist.†   (source)
  • Your assertion is, in effect, exactly what I was looking for.†   (source)
  • The North was quietly asserting its total control while the South was left to protest about its disturbed fishing grounds.†   (source)
  • But is this a logical assertion?†   (source)
  • Because Leila does not question these assertions.†   (source)
  • At times shaking my head no is more self-assertion than I can manage.†   (source)
  • GUIL (musing) : The law of probability, it has been oddly asserted, is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys (he has surprised himself) … if six monkeys were ….†   (source)
  • Many carried babies who were too small to walk-or who did not wish to assert the powers that made walking unnecessary.†   (source)
  • The Weasel's assertion was, then, indisputably correct.†   (source)
  • It asserts itself.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: Your Worship wishes to assert his prerogatives?†   (source)
  • It was a time when I enjoyed asserting my superiority over her, and I was having a fine time crushing her in hand after hand.†   (source)
  • So he learned to assert himself.†   (source)
  • I suppose I should have asserted myself and invented a new machine.†   (source)
  • One day Mrs. Hopewell had picked up one of the books the girl had just put down and opening it at random, she read, "Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is.†   (source)
  • To begin with, it does not make assertions: 'It's like this and like that.'†   (source)
  • I am sure it could not have been easy for him to see his wife more learned than he himself was, for Nathan could not even write his name; yet not once did he assert his rights and forbid me my pleasure, as lesser men might have done.†   (source)
  • Indeed the assertion of power by both Houses was illustrated by the visit of Congressman Anson Burlingame to the House of Commons.†   (source)
  • They voted for the revelation; it had made their hearts faint, and they would assert it again.†   (source)
  • MARGARET All the world knows Your Grace's book, asserting the seven sacraments of the Church.†   (source)
  • Before she left the room, she said, in order to assert her authority: "You will call me if he wakes."†   (source)
  • That was the extent, Gonzales asserted, of their duties.†   (source)
  • The quietly inoffensive assertion of a black child's attempt to communicate with a white adult.†   (source)
  • Myers asserted that he was shoved and threatened by Mr. McMillian when he went into the cleaners.†   (source)
  • The Count considered the manager's assertion for a moment.†   (source)
  • He had only to assert the most commonplace thing and it sounded important and convincing.†   (source)
  • They repeated Mayor Nagin's assertion that the city had devolved into an "animalistic state."†   (source)
  • "They're gonna end up puttin' your back in prison—or a cemetery!" his mother asserted.†   (source)
  • There was no reason for him to assert his possession of me more than his possession of you.†   (source)
  • "If she goes, I go," Mama asserts, but the guard has already turned his back on her.†   (source)
  • One or the other would assert itself, rush or dribble through me, and pass on.†   (source)
  • He thought they were both right in one of their assertions but wrong in the other.†   (source)
  • Eventually, they both calmed again and the night's quiet asserted itself once more.†   (source)
  • Make the assertion, then figure out the means—this was his strategy.†   (source)
  • The Count's assertion had seemed so axiomatic that he had not prepared an elaboration.†   (source)
  • I began to feel embarrassed that I hadn't asserted more control during the encounter.†   (source)
  • Every parent loves their children," Mack asserted.†   (source)
  • Jesus, anticipating his hesitation, asserted, "C'mon, Mack.†   (source)
  • Alan made all these assertions to Yousef, trying to convince himself, too.†   (source)
  • Believe it or not, I'm fairly busy at the moment," she asserted.†   (source)
  • Adams's sole objective was to make war on France, Callender asserted.†   (source)
  • For a moment he did not think they were going to obey, but in the end old habit asserted itself.†   (source)
  • Amos is trying to assert himself as the leader of the House of Life, but it's not going to be easy.†   (source)
  • The defense asserts that the Workshop has cloned the real Max McDaniels.†   (source)
  • TOC laughed heartily, while the two other boys repeatedly asserted their heterosexuality.†   (source)
  • Now he was coming to accept Bublanski's assertion that this couldn't explain Bjurman's murder.†   (source)
  • In many respects you were correct in your assertions.†   (source)
  • A god wouldn't have to alter nature to accomplish his will," asserted Eragon.†   (source)
  • The last assertion was promptly challenged by Logan Green, who undertook the cross-examination.†   (source)
  • "What Arya did was an accident," asserted Oromis.†   (source)
  • Shrope, you assert that you and your family are utterly innocent in this affair?†   (source)
  • "I assume," said Orrin to Nasuada, "that you wish to assert your claim."†   (source)
  • "ambition …. is the most lively in the most intelligent and most generous minds," he asserted.†   (source)
  • You have no moral superiority to assert or to defend.†   (source)
  • "We offer protection," Ithal asserts, but Mrs. Nightwing will not be swayed.†   (source)
  • A headache began to assert itself above his right eye, the pain digging into his flesh—migraine.†   (source)
  • I'm not frightened," whispered Lydia Sessions through white lips that belied her assertion.†   (source)
  • If New York had tried to assert its rights by force, a war between the States might have started.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, they assert that Bjurman invariably behaved correctly and kindly towards them.†   (source)
  • The assertion was later retracted, and the photographer tried to take it in stride.†   (source)
  • It was in her garden that whatever physical grace Abigail St. Croix possessed asserted itself.†   (source)
  • We were forced to assert ourselves, elbowing our way forward like the others.†   (source)
  • Everyone who had taken part, it was generally asserted, was doomed, but that was not so.†   (source)
  • "We never make assertions, Miss Taggart," said Hugh Akston.†   (source)
  • And why had I not asserted myself more often in the past?†   (source)
  • "You wouldn't be so fond of her if she wasn't fond of you," he asserted confidently.†   (source)
  • "It is no dishonor if Saphira does it of her free will," asserted Arya.†   (source)
  • And they have gravely asserted that all animals, including humans, degenerate in America.†   (source)
  • "I can prove my assertions, but I can't give you the documentation without revealing a source.†   (source)
  • "All we have to do," Luciana asserted, "is send Orfeo."†   (source)
  • "We're talking about rules," the agent asserted, "and we're talking about Germans."†   (source)
  • The time for ambiguity has passed,asserted Eragon.†   (source)
  • "What I mean is that in practice we have only Lisbeth Salander's assertions to go on."†   (source)
  • The Ligurian, whom they called Microscopico, asserted that he had proof.†   (source)
  • "Nonsense," asserted Elain, wrapping a shawl around her shoulders.†   (source)
  • It was a general assertion in which you anticipated my answer.†   (source)
  • He laughed at the absurdity of Jeod's assertion.†   (source)
  • I'm not responsible for the assertions you are making."†   (source)
  • "And for good reason," asserted Murtagh.†   (source)
  • It is a series of assertions about various individuals, one story more fantastical than the other.†   (source)
  • We can judge for ourselves the credibility of her assertions.†   (source)
  • It was now a matter of how far they wanted to align themselves with such assertions.†   (source)
  • People were basically good, we asserted with disgusting smugness.†   (source)
  • Rufo said tiredly, "Why didn't you assert yourself?†   (source)
  • There is an old song which asserts that 'the best things in life are free.'†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: No, I mean so far as to assert that I was weak in the head when I came into the world.†   (source)
  • I could assert, truthfully, that had you asked I would have answered.†   (source)
  • I resolved to maintain and assert my position as a man apart, a man waiting to be ransomed.†   (source)
  • "Might be sooner than you think," asserted Jim.†   (source)
  • There would probably be distaste, and possibly an act of independence, of self-assertion.†   (source)
  • He used his uniform as he used his voice, as an unself-conscious assertion of lawful authority.†   (source)
  • Whether her appetite for murder has ever strongly asserted itself in the interval is not known, as she probably guards her identity by more than one alias.†   (source)
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