I had never asserted myself before.
I will never assert that I am culturally competent (which is a process, not a status).
Curiously, Mr. Schulberg never asserted that he had written the screenplay before he testified.
He never asserted categorically that government for and of the people must, or even can, work.
(Even PT Barnum never asserted their authenticity).
Mr. Mladic made the same claim to the Serbian war crimes prosecutor after his arrest, the deputy prosecutor, Bruno Vekaric, said Saturday, when Mr. Mladic asserted: "I never killed anyone.
Sitting on a dais in a vast closed tent erected on the grounds of Kabul Polytechnic Institute, Zahir exhorted the assembly's 1,500 delegates to "think about peace for their country," and asserted, "I never came to be king, just to serve Afghanistan and the nation, and to bring peace to the country, national unity and reconciliation".
He waxes academic about pimping, for instance, while being quick to remind us that it "is not by any means an honorable hustle"; he admits that he and his robbery crew "wreaked havoc" for a while, but asserts, "I never had any allegiance to crime".
But Jerry Saltz grumpily asserts: "I never smelled a thing".
In the closing paragraph of this note Jefferson asserts, "I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own.
