Sentence examples for asserted in a speech from inspiring English sources

On June 1st, former Vice-President Cheney asserted in a speech that the C.I.A., rather than the White House, first proposed hurting prisoners during interrogations.

Seeking to point blame elsewhere, Mr. Bush asserted in a speech here on Tuesday: "For too long we have had no energy policy.

Jol Miskin WEA tutor organiser, Sheffield In 1999 Stephen Byers asserted in a speech to the City: "The reality is that wealth creation is now more important than wealth distribution".

Mr. Bush, for example, supports a constitutional amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage, and recently asserted in a speech that an amendment is the only way to protect the institution of marriage from "activist courts and local officials" who want to redefine it.

While Mr. McCain asserted in a speech in Washington on Tuesday that under Mr. Obama's tax plan Americans of every background would see their taxes rise, Mr. Obama's plan calls for cutting taxes on people earning less than $75,000 a year and for eliminating federal income taxes on elderly citizens who make less than $50,000 a year.

After three largely undistinguished years in the Senate, McCarthy rose suddenly to national fame in February 1950 when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were employed in the State Department.

Donald Trump tried to move past a week of vacillating on immigration, his signature issue, by asserting in a speech Wednesday that the question of what to do with 11 million people in the U.S illegally is not central to the problem.

Netanyahu has said nothing publicly other than to "condemn and deny" a quote attributed to an anonymous source who quoted him as calling Obama "a disaster for Israel" and to assert in a speech at AIPAC, that Israel has the right to build settlements in Jerusalem or anywhere else it wants to.

Mr. McCain, of Arizona, asserted in a brief speech at a late rally in West Hollywood that he was not about to give up his crusade, even as he left open the possibility that he will quit the race.

All his adult life, the prime minister asserted in an unrepentant speech five days later, he has been struggling to represent "a politics that does not fit neatly into traditional categories of left and right".

The terrorist network, he asserted in a resolute, hard-hitting speech, includes thousands of operatives in more than 60 countries, which suggests the awesome scope of the task that the president has set for the United States and for those who stand beside it.