"I call it the buying of America," TUSD board member Eva Bacal asserted at an Oct. 1983 TUSD public meeting.
In 1989, soon after the development of the first anti-retroviral monotherapies to treat AIDS, Samuel Broder, head of the US National Cancer Institute, famously asserted at an international AIDS conference that HIV should be considered to be a chronic illness and its treatment "should follow the model of cancer".
An indignant Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld asserted at a Pentagon briefing that "this is not a unilateral action, as is being characterized in the media.
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".
Whether the Iranian government actually sought to hire Mexican gangsters to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asserted at a dramatic press conference last week, remains uncertain.
As President Obama forcefully asserted at a news conference later in the day, there can be no negotiations until the government is open and until Republicans raise the debt ceiling and end the possibility of default.
Mr. Marks, an associate of the Center for National Security Studies, asserted at a news conference that Adm. Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence, in a letter to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, "seriously distorted" what the C.I.A. research programs involved.
Earlier, Iraq's minister of information, Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, asserted at a news conference that coalition forces were attacking the Ali shrine and trying to make the gold-domed mosque collapse with the concussion of low-flying aircraft.
"The link is unassailable," Dr. Dean asserted at a news conference here on Wednesday, adding that Mr. Torricelli "raised money from the same donors" to support Mr. Kerry and the anti-Dean group.
