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But Mr. Morell reinforced the perception of an administration that cannot get its story straight by asserting during the meeting that the F.B.I. had modified Ms. Rice's talking points by removing a specific reference to Al Qaeda.

Even Ms. Giraldo, whose face he had been accused of slashing with a broken glass, stood up for him, asserting during the trial and again on Friday that he had injured her accidentally.

"Aren't we tired of this stuff?" the man who spent years insisting President Obama was born in Kenya recently said, after bizarrely asserting during the first debate, "When you talk about healing, I think that I've developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community.

Israeli officers had asserted during the siege that army snipers fired only at armed Palestinians spotted outside the compound buildings.

Second, Mr. Kaczynski objected to his lawyers' plan to assert during the first phase that he is insane.

Mr. Riley, a Republican who asserted during the campaign that the administration of Gov. Donald Siegelman, his Democratic predecessor, lacked ethics, signed the pledge as well.

Although Mr. Pataki has kept silent during the court case, his lawyers asserted during the trial that New York City and other poor districts received more than enough state aid under the current formula.

It was frequently asserted during the leadership election (in which Mr. Blair defeated two rivals with just about the right degree of emphasis — handsome but not humiliating) that one of his key political virtues is his appeal to the Southeast.

If Mr. Obama was naïve back when he began his presidential run five years ago Friday, as many Republicans asserted during the 2008 campaign, he is a lot less so now.

When he asserted during the police examination that he would have sent his own father to his death if that had been required, he did not mean merely to stress the extent to which he was under orders, and ready to obey them; he also meant to show what an "idealist" he had always been.

US Senator Bill Nelson made a similar point when he asserted during the Senate hearings that "if Facebook and other online companies will not or cannot fix the privacy invasions, then we are going to have to.