asserted

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Asserted Ohio's Robert A. Taft: "There is a tendency toward executive usurpation of power in this field, as in domestic legislation."

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Asserted a top National Security Council official last week: "We have Gaddafi up to his ears in this bombing operation."

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Asserted John Nevin, chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber: "There will be a more pragmatic attitude toward intolerable budget deficits."

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Asserted Julius Berman, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: "There are some very positive statements in there."

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Asserted right was arrayed directly and unequivocally against asserted right.

From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)