Sentence examples for before asserting from inspiring English sources

She circled the issue a while before asserting, "I'm not part of that world".

"I would never throw a phone," she says firmly, before asserting that her most extravagant request is Green & Blacks chocolate.

Bolt nods before asserting that he is now driven by a higher motivation and more bracing pressure.

He wrote that the "dynamic of our constitutional system is that individuals need not await legislative action before asserting a fundamental right".

In her opening statement, Ms. McMahon briefly mentioned her grandchildren and her personal history before asserting that her opponent would "push our economy off a fiscal cliff".

Pitched out of office four-and-a-half years ago, Labour has wasted a long time before asserting its claim to be listened to on economic policy.

"Things are worse now than before," asserted one, "because our hopes were so high after Cairo".

No British-born painter we know of had ever before asserted any such thing.

Mr. Medvedev, as he has before, responded by asserting that the dispute between the Russian partners and BP is a private matter and that the state will not intervene.

This month, the district attorney's office admitted that it had failed to inform Mr. Collins that a key witness against him had briefly recanted his statements before trial, asserting that the error had only recently been discovered.

At Morris's request, he reads a memo that he wrote to Condoleezza Rice, before 9/11, asserting that the U.S. will soon have to confront a Saddam Hussein "armed with nuclear weapons. . . .