Sentence examples for had never asserted from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mason said he had never asserted that the unions were responsible for the sabotage, suggesting that individual strikers may have acted on their own.

Eventually, the committee decided to finish its report without gaining access to those documents, even though Mr. Obama had never asserted executive privilege.

Despite launching a national security policy in January 2013 which somewhat pre-emptively declared the 9/11 decade over, Gillard said Labor had never asserted or, more pertinently, believed that there was no continuing terrorist threat on Australian soil.

As the prime minister became the first western leader to visit Iraq since the end of the war, Dr Blix's spokesman said the chief weapons inspector had "never asserted" that Iraq definitely had weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the conflict.

I had never asserted myself before.

But we have never asserted that we have a unilateral right to control this process.

"The state has never asserted its right of reverter," he said.

It has never asserted itself as a centre of radical art or music.

"What's extraordinary," he said, "is that the government has never asserted this, except in the 19th century, when it was rebuffed".

Judges have never asserted, and they are not now asserting, any authority or jurisdiction over parliamentary proceedings or debate, which are exclusively matters for parliament".

By John Collier The New Yorker, November 4 , 1933P. 15 Tells of Mr. Smedley, a man with a stern wife who has never asserted himself.