Sentence examples for has asserted for from inspiring English sources

And opponents have begun to gear up for a fight about whether it is possible, as Mr. Bush has asserted, for drilling in the Arctic refuge to proceed "in an environmentally sensitive way".

But Dr. Haseltine has asserted for several years that the entire communications system of the human body, a set of some 11,000 signaling factors and their receptors, has been identified and captured by Human Genome Sciences.

The show must be stopped, he declared, for the good of the eight children — something that critics have asserted for months.

Furthermore, the transit agency says, service from Brooklyn to Grand Street is to stop for only two and a half years while work is done on the Manhattan Bridge; not, as politicians and protesters have asserted, for four years.

Leaders of both agencies have asserted for years that cooperation and coordination between the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. on counterterrorism issues have increased significantly since the 2001 attacks, which by accounts from each side is true.

Consumers Union said it was pleased to see the White House acknowledge what consumers have asserted for years: that brand-name drug companies exploited the law to keep generic products off the shelves.

Human rights advocates in Colombia have asserted for several years that while abuses by army forces were dropping precipitously, military units were effectively handing over their dirty work to the well-organized and well-financed rightist armies.

Facebook's process change acknowledges the ongoing role users have asserted for themselves and formalizes a townhall-like process that members have advocated in the past.

Through history many have asserted, for example, that God has the right to command man; yet presumably no one asserting such a right would maintain that society ought to defend God in the possession of anything.

I've asserted for years that young people have a great advantage over older people because the young have new knowledge -- they understand technology in a way that their elders do not.

"The Diocese, though unsuccessful in nearly every legal claim it has asserted, has nonetheless for years shielded these materials from public review," he wrote.