Yet Gordon Brown regularly asserts that the war in Afghanistan is "vital" to British security.
And Congress regularly asserts its institutional capacity to interpret the Constitution -- to act on an equal footing with the Supreme Court in deciding the constitutionality of a law.
Wary of antagonising Moscow's fears of western "encirclement" and feeding its well-oiled propaganda effort, which regularly asserts that Nato agreed at the end of the cold war not to station forces in the former Warsaw Pact countries, Nato has declined to establish permanent bases in the east.
Just to be clear, I am not one of those people whom Mr. Gunderson regularly asserts are "ideologically opposed" to your sector.
The Chinese media regularly asserts that the government's tight reign on speech -- even sometimes for those proclaiming nationalist sentiments -- is a way of protecting its people from themselves.
He declined to say how much money he regularly contributed, asserting, "It's not the amount, it's the principle".
Against this background is the current wider context where, in violation of the UN charter, Iran is threatened by the US, UK and Israeli leaders, who regularly assert that "the military option" is on the table.
The principle of "subsidiarity" is regularly asserted as a means of restoring authority to the UK's supreme court and promoting its ability on its own to interpret articles from the European convention on human rights.
The president of the Privy Council became a kind of prime minister; although holders of this office did not hesitate to show independence of Madrid in order to protect their interests, they remained supporters of absolutism, regularly asserting the authority of the royal government at the expense of regional and local rights.
All of this happened, in other words, despite strong opposition and powerful pressure from a Washington eager to contain China and regularly asserting its desire to "pivot" militarily to Asia to do so.
It doesn't take much trawling of UKIP-ish forums to start coming up with handfuls of names from a hundred years ago, all of whose sole aim, it is regularly asserted, was to hoodwink the peoples of Europe into bowing before the supra-national metallic jaws of the EU beastie.
