assert
Example Sentences
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With Oslo asserting greater control, Slyunyaeva says Barentsburg has to seek Norway’s permission to even put a new coat of paint on its aging buildings.
The release included a statement from city manager Nancy Hunt-Coffey, who apologized for the inaccurate information but asserted that the city still had reason to shut down the event.
From Los Angeles Times
In December, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asserted has the administration can replicate the tariff structure, or a similar structure, through alternative legal methods in the 1974 Trade Act and 1962 Trade Expansion Act.
From Los Angeles Times
“In light of the breadth, history, and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it,” Roberts wrote.
Southerners, asserted the Confederate cartel negotiator, would “die in the last ditch before giving up their right to send slaves back to slavery as property recaptured.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
