In May, Nokia said it would not assert its patents against the inner code of Linux, a popular open-source computer operating system.
Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Thursday that Mr. Powell would not assert a direct link between the Iraqi government and the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Representative Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, pressed her: "You would not assert that it's inhumane to dismember an unborn baby?" Smith attempted to explain that she would not describe it in the same terms, but he too cut her off.
"The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it," he said.
We would not assert that each and every benchmark must be met by a program to produce good results.
Consider: Both Oscar and his twin assert 'water is scrumptious' but given their ignorance, Oscar would not assert 'H2O is scrumptious' nor would his twin assert 'XYZ is scrumptious'.
In our interview, Stein wouldn't assert that Clinton and Trump are equally dangerous, but she also wouldn't say that they're not.
"The decision was this: I needed to completely destroy my world view relating to philanthropy, as well as my relationship with him, and the fact that for 55 years I have been asserting that I would not go into politics," he said.
"No doubt Informix is hurting, and the database market in general is not really growing, but ETL is really hot, so I wouldn't count them out," Urban asserts.
But I would say I'm not asserting that; I'm not an aggressive feminist".
