Aristotle had asserted the need for a unity of time: "Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit".
However, having asserted the above, I also believe that the manuscript is in need of serious rewriting.
Analysts and investors have asserted that the company needs a more professional management team.
In an interview in Vienna last weekend and in a speech in Berlin on Monday, Mr. Soros added his influential voice to a cluster of iconoclasts who have asserted that Southern Europe's fate need not be decided in Germany.
Vice President Al Gore has asserted a need for the "forward engagement' of American forces in distant trouble spots without specifying ways to reduce the risk of that engagement.
AT&T easily could have asserted its alleged 'injury' in the form of a proof of administrative claim, without any need to request a change to the plan.
He should have, asserted Cleitophon.
As the Ukrainian crisis has unfolded, Obama has asserted that the alliance needs to "make concrete commitments to help Ukraine modernize and strengthen its security forces".
The trustee's office has asserted that it needed to look into accusations that Countrywide had chronically mishandled mortgage payments, pumped up bills with improper fees and charges and ignored court orders while pursuing troubled consumers.
Slovenia has asserted that it needs to raise a total of 3 billion euro (about $4 billion) to pay down its budget deficit and rescue its banks, lest a collapse exacerbate an already-weak economy.
