Political etiquette requires potential vice-presidential picks to deny any interest in the post and assert how much they love their present job, all the while coyly batting their eyelashes at the nominee to signal their availability.
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Mr. Perelman calculated his own losses at $1 million, more than 12 times what he paid for the table, asserting that this was how much the piece would have fetched in 2004, had it been authentic.
Lateness can be a way for the rich and powerful to assert themselves, to show how much more valuable their time is.
I'd assert that it's amazing how much a name can contribute to branding, but, truthfully, it's not that surprising at all.
Asserting that he did not know how much money he had raised in the period, he said in a telephone interview that it would be made public with his filing on Thursday and added that he would prohibit his fund-raiser from talking to a reporter.
Other Asian leaders would be likely to interpret a troop withdrawal as a reduction of American power, no matter how much the United States asserts its commitment to the region.
As long as that policy is in place, Mr. Thayer said, relations will remain on an unequal footing that is directly related to the war, no matter how much Mr. Clinton asserts that he is closing the door on the past.
It seems to me, however, as just discussed, that natural selection should never be called a fact, no matter how much evidence is asserted in its support, because natural selection is a theory about facts, not a fact itself.
He declined to say how much money he regularly contributed, asserting, "It's not the amount, it's the principle".
