Broadcast hours after court officials had once again insisted that the trial of the Jews must be closed for national security reasons, it did little to convince the foreign envoys who were in Shiraz to see if the Jews receive a fair trial from a court system dominated by hard-liners hostile to the West.
The classical approach may have once strictly insisted on the one-off time in a single place – that was the rule and the sense.
China's deputy sports minister has once more insisted that all the members of the Chinese gold-medal winning women's gymnastics team were old enough to take part in the Olympics.
She had once, though only briefly, insisted that Man Ray and Ray Charles were brothers.
Carney, who stopped short of reminding his audience that Salmond had once championed euro membership, insisted he was neutral on the currency union.
Hendrix, who was delighted to find out that Handel had once lived next door, insisted he had once seen the composer's ghost step through the wall, "an old guy in a night shirt and grey pigtail".
A visitor to her lodging house found her dressed in tattered mourning clothes, sharing her room with a large coffin containing a mummy that, she insisted, had once been an Egyptian priestess.
In an interview with the Guardian last year, Bottura painstakingly described how he had once asked himself why he insisted on boiling six different cuts of meat – beef, pork, and chicken – for a recipe.
Under questioning from Mr. Scheiner, Mr. Bransdorfer acknowledged that he had once met with Mr. Beldock, but insisted that he "didn't quite understand what he was asking me," either.
