Sentence examples similar to prisoners have asserted from inspiring English sources

Hezbollah leaders have asserted that they will continue fighting Israel until it releases the two guerrillas and other Lebanese prisoners.

He should have, asserted Cleitophon.

Britain and France have asserted that such evidence exists.

We have asserted no such thing.

We have asserted some kind of responsibility.

No means you have asserted yourself".

There have been 11 partial amnesties since 1945...& in each a pattern has asserted itself-large numbers of prisoners are released with flamboyant magnaminity, but soon thereafter several are rearrested.

Moreover, as the government has asserted in court papers, it is holding the prisoners "under the president's authority as commander in chief and under the laws and usages of war," and the detainees, as aliens with no connection to the United States, are being held outside sovereign United States territory.

While the United States government has asserted that it has no obligation to give the Guantánamo prisoners the protections of the Geneva Conventions, officials have insisted that they have done so as a humanitarian gesture.

Ministry sources said Serco had asserted that no member of the company's board had any knowledge of the alleged fraud on the prisoner transport contract.

Mr. Bush has asserted his right to bypass more than 1,000 sections of bills he has signed into law, including an amendment sponsored in 2005 by Mr. McCain to ban cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of American prisoners in custody.