Sentence examples for had ever asserted from inspiring English sources

During the Somalia intervention in 1992, Henry A. Kissinger wrote that "no other nation" except the United States had ever asserted that "humane concerns" matter so much "that not only treasure but lives must be risked to vindicate them".

Yesalis also took issue with Bettman's assertion that hockey must be clean because nobody has ever asserted the N.H.L. has a steroid problem.

Neither petitioner is the owner of the automobile and neither has ever asserted that he owned the rifle or shells seized.

According to Goldsmith, in advocating this position, which goes far beyond anything any president has ever asserted, Addington "was channeling the Vice President and... the President". As it implemented its "go-it-alone" conception of executive authority, the administration "rejected any binding legal constraints" on the president's power.

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

For the only noncriminal interest that has ever been asserted to justify the California reporting statute at issue here is the State's interest in providing information 'sought by a private party wholly for purposes of resolving a private dispute.' Of course, state policy is exercised, in part, through the resolution of otherwise private disputes through the judicial process.

Johnston dismissed Smith's argument, asserting that neither the Federation nor Rhodesia had ever made such an appointment (this was actually false; the Federal government had opened independent diplomatic missions in South Africa and Portuguese Mozambique, and Rhodesia retained them both).

After winning the 2009 UEFA Super Cup, Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola asserted that Messi was probably the best player he had ever seen.

This statement and action, Mr Amar asserts, "was the most dramatic deed the world had ever seen".

Asserting my independence was, at that time, more important than it had ever been.

Mark Bego of the Toledo Blade asserted that the song "Someone in the Dark" was "one of the most beautiful ballads" that Jackson had ever recorded.