"Even responsible service officers," it said, "have asserted before us that because of corruption resulting from such involvement, the lust for wine and women and greed for lands and houses, a large number of senior army officers, particularly those occupying the highest positions, had lost not only their will to fight but also their professional competence".
They asserted before the war that American troops would need to stay in Iraq for no more than a couple of years.
A senior intelligence official said that Mr. Powell and other senior administration officials were being provided briefings by the C.I.A. "as we develop new information" about the intelligence that led the administration to assert before the war that Iraq possessed illicit weapons.
But Spain's economy minister, Luis de Guindos, cautioned against too optimistic a view, asserting before the auction that European debt markets were not working properly because foreign investors were being deterred by the euro zone's slow and complex decision-making processes.
Under this mechanism, private individuals are entitled to assert before a national court that their Member State has breached an EU law provision that has conferred on them rights.
The furies rail at the upstart god Apollo for asserting before an Athenian tribunal that women are not mothers, but merely vessels to incubate and nourish the seed of men.
An article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal confirmed and expanded on an "NBC Nightly News" report from March that asserted that before the Iraq war, administration officials called off a planned attack that might have killed Mr. Zarqawi, the terrorist now blamed for much of the mayhem in that country, in his camp.
Happier times were revisited with relish as Tomaszewski – or "the clown", as Brian Clough described him before the Wembley match – asserted: "That was the night when the ugly duckling became the beautiful swan.
M. B. asserted that before the in vitro process the couple agreed that unused embryos could be offered for adoption.
So here we go again, with another case of a very rich guy buying something terribly inflated and wasting precious little time before asserting that somewhere down the road, he will need bailing out.
Executives asserted, as they have before, that the sudden unintended acceleration in Toyota cars was caused by gas pedals that can become obstructed by floor mats or stick because of design flaws, and not by problems in the electronic systems.
