Sentence examples for asserting before the from inspiring English sources

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.

Little Massachusetts is once again standing up for the democratic values which it so boldly asserted before the American revolution.

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.

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.

"The wearing of masks is a definitive device for the altering of consciousness," the book boldly asserts, before suggesting I might "gather the strength of" the creature represented on my face.

"This need for immersion in quote/unquote 'Blackness' is an issue when it comes to exploring different avenues for Black thought," Reynolds asserted, before Davis finished the thought: "You can't be multiple things when you're Black.

[Page A15.] Questioned at length about the war for the first time since the former chief weapons inspector in Iraq said last month that Mr. Hussein did not have stockpiles of unconventional weapons, Mr. Bush acknowledged that he might have been wrong in asserting repeatedly before the invasion that Iraq possessed such weapons.

"I said, 'Pull your pants down,' " she asserted, before starting one of the longest speeches given at any Hall of Fame ceremony.

That's a position I have asserted before, many times, encompassing the report's very appropriate inclusion of sustainability.

"It's not the uniform," Lou Piniella of the Mariners asserted before last night's game.

Mr. Obama's approval ratings on foreign policy are healthy, and the president asserted before an audience at a New York fund-raiser last week that he has the best record on Israel of any president.