But no administration official has formally asserted a legal basis — absent a vote of Congress or the Security Council — for military strikes.
Texas the Fifth Amendment privilege is unavailable outside of Miranda custody unless the person formally asserts it, any Fifth Amendment issues would come up only when the officer tells the person to unlock the phone and the person responds by formally asserting his right to silence (or else the person is already under arrest).
To Google's credit, while it has claimed First Amendment rights for its search results, it has never formally asserted that it has the constitutional right to ignore privacy or antitrust laws.
It also imposed an orderly structure on the document (in principle, it allowed any desired structure to be formally asserted and validated at run time).
When that idea was knocked down by the prime minister, Johnson alighted on the idea of finding a way to formally re-assert the sovereignty of the UK parliament.
Bromley council, after discussions with the Art Fund, has formally written to Tower Hamlets council to assert ownership over a work that is at the centre of one of the most heated public art debates for years.
Counseling was only available to defendants who plea-bargained and formally admitted guilt; anyone who dared assert her innocence risked a misdemeanor charge and possible prison time.
An interim government led by a tough, militarily-connected man chosen by the UN with America's approval is seeking to assert itself even before the Americans formally hand over political power at the end of this month.
Target doesn't allow employees to discuss the union on the job, the organizers assert, except at meetings management organizes to formally answer questions.
But until Mr. Obama's announcement, the United States had held off on formally recognizing the opposition, asserting that it wanted to use the lure of recognition to encourage the rebel leaders to flesh out their political structure and fill important posts.
Four years later, in the London Protocol of 1852, the other Great Powers formally acknowledged his rights in Neuchâtel, but with the proviso that Prussia should do nothing to assert them without their concurrence.
