Sentence examples for once asserted that from inspiring English sources

Indeed, someone once asserted that the definition of adventure is a disaster that almost happened.

Winston Churchill once asserted that "one is enough" when referring to a narrow victory in a parliamentary vote.

A Thomas Mann protagonist once asserted that "healthy people do not write, act or compose", and that was in 1903.

While still living in Manhattan at the end of the 1960's, Walter Matthau once asserted that he was such a good actor he could make himself invisible while taking his daily walks.

Ukraine has no "Kremlin", wielding authority over all-comers, but that does not make it clean or well-governed.What about the argument that economic development, at least in its early stages, is best pursued under a benign despot? Lee Kuan Yew, an ex-prime minister of Singapore, once asserted that democracy leads to "disorderly conduct", disrupting material progress.

The screenwriter Robert Towne ("Chinatown") once asserted that an audience will give a movie 10 minutes, believing that a picture doesn't have to put the pedal to the metal from the outset and that viewers will allow it to find a rhythm.

In the ensuing weeks, the lawsuit alleges, the union lawyer kept the parents apprised of his progress, at least once asserting that the league was dragging its feet and that he was having trouble obtaining records from doctors associated with the substance-abuse program.

Another former editor said Mr. Murdoch once pointed to the byline of a correspondent and asserted, "That man's a Commie".

As I looked at other shards on the ground, I thought of how Fawcett had once asserted in a letter that on certain high grounds in the Amazon "very little scratching will produce an abundance" of ancient pottery.

Reasoner had a comfortable, old-shoe, or carpet-slipper, quality — he sometimes seems on air to be catnapping, and, indeed, once asserted off air that his ambition in life was to "sleep twenty-two hours a day, like a dog" — but the editor-in-chief wanted someone more abrasive to balance Reasoner's soothing smoothness.

If Paris was a moveable feast, as Ernest Hemingway once asserted, it is now downtown Manhattan that is serving the main course.