Sentence examples for has asserted as from inspiring English sources

Equally troubling are the wide prerogatives related to surveillance, detention and interrogation that this president has asserted as commander in chief.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's majority opinion rejected each of the two sources of constitutional authority that Congress had asserted as the basis for the legislation.

On Sunday, he had asserted, as he has for weeks, that the continuing election limbo would be resolved by the middle of December, but he omitted that prediction today.

"I'm totally convinced snowshoeing is going to be big," Phil had asserted as he drove his Jeep to our starting point in the Super St-Bernard car park.

Having asserted as a matter of faith the primacy of Peter and the succession of the popes in that primacy and having quoted in full the Florentine definition, the constitution clarified what was to be understood by "the full power of nourishing, ruling, and governing" the church, which, according to that definition, inhered in the pope's primacy.

Having asserted as fact that the investments of key underwriters "are clearly being protected by the positions taken by the Energy Foundation's largest grantees," he is obliged to describe as "conspiracy theory" the idea of cause and effect: "20 years from now... researchers may find evidence to substantiate such a theory".

Or perhaps spirited away by a tall mystery man in a fancy black car, as she has asserted at other times?

Meanwhile, he hopes he has asserted himself as effectively as he did that day in Stockholm.

The group has asserted itself as a leader in speaking for developing nations.

Since then, he has asserted himself as the main orchestrator of the White House message, political strategy and day-to-day presentation of the candidate.

In the Boumediene case, the detainees' lawyers have argued vigorously that it is not, while the administration has asserted just as forcefully that it is.