Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani yesterday issued a statement asserting confidence in the commissioner.
"Many of the people asserting confidence in his guilt are much more expressing confidence in our legal system and our jury system," he said.
It's hardly the rousing rhetoric of a Kwame Nkrumah calling for African integration or a Thabo Mbeki asserting confidence and hope about the continent.
An upright posture asserts confidence, but it also can exude hostility or a sense of uprightness.[19].[19]
At a news conference later, representatives of several Portland mosques asserted their confidence in law enforcement officials' actions so far.
In October 2006 Gordon Brown, then chancellor of the exchequer, asserted with confidence that "many charities and donors have been and are being exploited by terrorists".
I think if you had told people back in, say, 2007 that this would happen, they would have asserted with confidence that generating a faster recovery would be at the top of the political agenda.
Aware that Abdullah's death may raise questions about Saudi Arabia's continued commitment to Egypt, Sisi's statement asserted "full confidence" that Abdullah's successor King Salman "will continue the late King's legacy to serve the causes of the Arab and Islamic nations".
What can be asserted with confidence, however, is that in mixed-species biofilms the "minority" species was typically assigned frequently enough to exceed the baseline error rate of 7% seen in single-species studies.
That wasn't about nationalism, but about asserting the confidence of its own culture.
