In recent decades many historians and theorists have averred that the triumph of abstraction during the two decades after World War II — culminating in Minimalism and Color Field painting — was partly enabled by anti-communist paranoia.
Nevertheless, the markets evidently regard this as a comforting bedtime story – all the more so now that European leaders have averred that Greece will not be pushed out of the eurozone.
Some of the anti-McCain shrieks on the right have averred that it would be preferable to let a Clinton Hillaryy, technically) or an Obama have the presidency, so that the post-George W. Bush ("compassionate conservative," small or large C not mattering much at this point) mess will land on Democratic laps and not ours.
No more incomers should be allowed to, er, come in, he has averred.
And yet one of Parker's ex-wives had averred otherwise, saying that Parker used "okeydoke" and "okeydokey" interchangeably.
Earlier this month, Toyota Motor Chairman Hiroshi Okuda had averred his belief that if GM were poised at the brink of bankruptcy, surely it'd get a helping hand from the U.S. government as had Chrysler in 1979, getting $1.5 billion in loan guarantees.
He has repeatedly averred that Russia needs a robust party system — and then proceeded to make participation in parliamentary elections arduous and subject to unchallenged management by an election commission that is subservient to the Kremlin.
It has been averred that stigmatization can be overt and may constitute libel, slander, or defamation of persons who are stigmatized [ 21].
Having been talked up last month, the putative negotiations, ostensibly aimed at stabilising Iraq, seem distant now that both sides have sulkily averred that they never really wanted to talk at all.
