Sentence examples for would not assert from inspiring English sources

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.

See, e. g., Academia San Jorge, 234 N.L.R.B. 1181 19788) (advisory opinion stating that Board would not assert jurisdiction over Catholic educational institution which did not meet jurisdictional standards); Windsor School, Inc., 199 N.L.R.B. 457, 200 N.L.R.B. 991 (1972) (declining jurisdiction where private, proprietary school did not meet jurisdictional amounts).

"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.

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.

Mr. Reagan's lawyers had argued that the questionning of the former President would intrude deep into the deliberative process of the Presidency, but last week, in the face of repeated judicial rulings indicating that Mr. Reagan would be forced to testify, the lawyers said said the former President would not assert executive privilege and agreed to comply with the subpoena to appear as a witness.

In our interview, Stein wouldn't assert that Clinton and Trump are equally dangerous, but she also wouldn't say that they're not.

They range from the mundane — the police's offers and Mr. Strauss-Kahn's requests for food and water and to use a bathroom — to the sometimes coarse realities of the criminal justice system, like his complaints that his handcuffs were too tight and his eventual statement that he would not (in fact, could not) assert diplomatic immunity.

An alternative interpretation of the text that avoids this inconsistency would be that thesis 10 does not assert that the "one body" view is exclusively or absolutely correct, but merely recommends it as an ethical stance.

With comparable drollery, I was informed, gently, that the SNP would not be asserting UDI today.

And we can interpret him in this way even if he himself would not have asserted it.