On the second day, the Governor asserted, "In times of challenge, New Yorkers have always stood together in making the right decisions," which was understood to signal a complete breakdown in negotiations.
After the Mavi Marmara incident, Thomas L. Friedman asserted in The Times, perhaps hyperbolically, that Turkey had joined "the Hamas-Hezbollah-Iran resistance front against Israel".
In 2009, after The Guardian first reported that the scale of the hacking had been far greater than initially revealed by the police, Mr. Hayman asserted in a Times column that the initial inquiry was not a "half-hearted investigation — we put our best detectives on the case and left no stone unturned as officials breathed down our neck".
"David Geffen has already declared for Obama, and many other Hollywood power brokers, who are not ready to go public yet, are making it known in private that they are in the ABH (Anyone But Hillary) camp," she asserted in the Los Angeles Times, in December, 2006, as though entertainment executives were crucial bellwethers of the American polity.
Last week, Trump asserted in a New York Times interview that he had the "absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department".
The economist Paul Krugman asserted in his New York Times column that Enron was an illustration of the consequences that occur from the deregulation and commodification of things such as energy.
Yet Robin Kane, media director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, asserted in a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed piece Thursday that it was "rampant homophobia," not the syndicated "Jenny Jones" talk show, that triggered Scott Amedure's murder last week.
Darlene Popovic San Francisco, March 18 , 2008 To the Editor: Re "The Bailout Artists" (column, March 18): David Brooks asserts: "In normal times, the free market works well.
And it is such a sum whose identity over time is asserted in The clay that was on the desk on July 1st is identical with the clay that was on the table on July 2nd.
"The Department is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications transiting Russian networks," DHS asserted in the directive at the time.
