Karl Rove, the Bush campaign strategist, asserted at a news conference that the facing-page design was not unusual.
"People are happy with the performance of the police," the deputy interior minister, Sami Sonmez, asserted at a parliamentary hearing last year.
He made headlines a few weeks ago when he asserted at a Hebrew University conference that a military attack on Iran would be "a stupid idea".
"We didn't come here to spend all our time cutting deficits created by Republicans," she asserted at the time, according to Carl Bernstein's recent Hillary biography, "A Woman in Charge".
This approach is not without risk, however, as there's always a possibility your request could be denied, making it harder for you to assert at a later date that there was no violation.
UBS certainly asserted at the Tennessee trial that it was willing to talk.
Dumbledore is, as his creator, J. K. Rowling, asserted at Carnegie Hall, gay.
"I think I will get a very positive reception," she asserted at her first postelection news conference, in Manhattan.
And, as many asserted at the time, the vetting process of the vice-presidential candidate appears to have taken just a few scant days.
But it had been found that those unlimited powers were often abused and that Senate control could not easily be asserted at increasing distances from Rome.
