At one point Nascimento bluntly asserts, "In Brazil elections are businesses".
But for his part Mr. Bloomberg bluntly asserted that Mr. Thompson picked money managers because they supported his campaign.
"Basically it's S-and-M porn," Vanda bluntly asserts about the script, riling the self-important Thomas, who corrects her with a half-hidden snarl.
At that time, David J. Sheehan, the trustee's lawyer, bluntly asserted that Mr. Madoff "would not have been able to commit this massive Ponzi scheme without this bank".
While emphasizing the need for due process, she bluntly asserts, in a draft of her speech: "We recognize, however, that too often due process can become a glacial process.
In response to a lawsuit by the National Federation of the Blind, Uber bluntly asserts that it's merely a communication platform, not the type of employer meant to be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Tom Regan, author of "The Case for Animal Rights," bluntly asserts that because "species are not individuals... the rights view does not recognize the moral rights of species to anything, including survival".
Hell may be other people, as Sartre bluntly asserted in "No Exit," but mired in my solitary darkness, I took great comfort in the ideal of a literary community -- a fellowship of like-minded neurasthenic souls -- that Bloomsbury represented.
China may prefer almost anyone to President Lee, who has riled them by bluntly asserting that Taiwan is sovereign and equal and that the two sides should talk on a "state to state" basis.
