Sentence examples for asserts that before from inspiring English sources

A shareholder lawsuit, which is to be filed today on behalf of a New York bank, asserts that before the merger agreement was reached, Sprint's board secretly changed the terms of its stock option plan in a way that ensured that the executives could cash in if a merger was approved by Sprint shareholders, whether or not the merger was completed.

The texts for these ruminations come in the opening tableau as one member of the commune recites Whitman's poem "On the Beach at Night Alone," which treats the "vast similitude" of all things, and another ponders the account of the world's origins from "Bulfinch's Mythology," which asserts that before there was heaven and earth and sea there was only chaos.

Although Bird asserts that before her marriage, Ella knew nothing of Grainger's sado-masochistic interests, in a letter dated 23 April 1928 (four months before the wedding) Grainger writes to her: "As far as my taste goes, blows [with the whip] are most thrilling on breasts, bottom, inner thighs, sexparts".

Rather, the pantheist simply asserts that God conceived as a being before which one is to adopt an attitude of worshipful awe is or is in Nature.

It revels in the beautiful, wild abandon of Carla and Luna's shared mania, though it's clearly unsustainable — and clear to the audience far before the film asserts that idea.

So here we go again, with another case of a very rich guy buying something terribly inflated and wasting precious little time before asserting that somewhere down the road, he will need bailing out.

M. B. asserted that before the in vitro process the couple agreed that unused embryos could be offered for adoption.

An article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal confirmed and expanded on an "NBC Nightly News" report from March that asserted that before the Iraq war, administration officials called off a planned attack that might have killed Mr. Zarqawi, the terrorist now blamed for much of the mayhem in that country, in his camp.

Richardson tries to be too clever by half, asserting that "Before I continue, I want to make it very clear that in no way do I believe that President Obama is the Antichrist" -- then outlining all the ways that Obama is like the Antichrist.

He asserts that a healthy warrior, before, during and after combat, requires a spiritual frame of reference.

That lawsuit, filed last year against several companies, asserts that seven months before the Sept. 11 attacks, at about the time of Mr. Nacchio's meeting at the N.S.A., another phone company, AT&T, "began development of a center for monitoring long distance calls and Internet transmissions and other digital information for the exclusive use of the N.S.A".