Sentence examples for firmly asserted from inspiring English sources

"Milos has firmly asserted that he doesn't sell steroids," Collins said in a telephone interview yesterday.

While Henry I had controlled his vassal dukes only with difficulty, the new king firmly asserted his suzerainty over them.

For a few days I heard it firmly asserted that "The Man Without a Past" was the front-runner.

Ukraine firmly asserted its authority over the recalcitrant Crimean Peninsula on March 17, abolishing the post of the separatist Crimean president, Yury Meshkov.

After 15 years of civil war and no government, an Islamist army has swept aside warlords and firmly asserted its control.

Chris Mullin was giving a speech lauding fine investigative journalism – like that of this year's winner, Andrew Norfolk of the Times – which he firmly asserted was achieved "despite" the efforts of newspaper proprietors.

"Rodriguez firmly asserts that at no time did he see money in the bedroom," the report states.

Then you can pepper your next post- Paris cocktail banter with all sorts of deliciously refined-sounding names that will firmly assert your Parisian cultural credentials.

And he does not exempt himself from this moral mottling: on the one hand, he firmly asserts his innocence, but, on the other, he feels guilty to have survived.

But the use of civilian boats is part of a different goal — to better defend and more firmly assert sovereignty over China's coast, its territorial waters and the exclusive economic zones that extend 200 nautical miles off the coast.

"I am firmly asserting to you," Mr. Mugabe told a rally in April, "that there will never come a day when the M.D.C. will rule this country -- never, ever".