The president has to stop seeking to both blame and distance himself from BP, all the while asserting federal authority and responsibility.
Writing in The New York Review of Books, Steve Coll assailed "Zero Dark Thirty" for taking fictional liberties from the factual record, all the while asserting on-screen that it is "based on firsthand accounts of actual events".
Rashomon transforms the accounting of a sordid crime into a meditation on truth and human nature, affirming the possibility of human goodness while asserting the reality of destructive passion and self-deception.
While asserting the political power of the Party, the change in policy generated significant economic growth.
These writers generally aren't legal experts, however, and they freely acknowledge this near the beginning of their letter to the Justice Department, while asserting that their profession does afford them some degree of expertise: "We are not experts in antitrust law, and this letter is not a legal brief.
Luck has met the high expectations set for him this season in leading The Cardinal to an impressive 11-1 record while asserting himself as a Heisman candidate for the second year in a row.
I thus have taken risks, while asserting my independence, irrespective of what might have been reasonable.
Ranju and Malu are learning to accept the affection while asserting their independence.
Heller's compromise was to invalidate one quite restrictive gun regulation while asserting that others are presumptively constitutional.
Donovan, while asserting in February that previous European tours found him unready "technically, tactically, mentally and physically," said he studied and prepared utterly this time.
While asserting that Mr. Justen owes him $25,000, Mr. Bird acknowledged that he had in fact hacked the MyBizHomepage site.
