"assert" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The department once asserted that its bomb production plants were not subject to Federal or state environmental laws.
- It may not be true that trees cause pollution, as former President Reagan once asserted.
- He asserted once and for all the importance of male dance, furthering in particular the notion of "heroic" male dance.
- In all these many days and weeks of travel, he had never once asserted himself, except on that single morning with her, when no one else could see.
- Pressed to defend his art, he once asserted, "There are pictures that are even worse than mine."
- Mr. Bush once asserted that "Reaganomics" was "voodoo economics."
- Iraqi officials once asserted that they had developed a ballistic missile to intercept enemy missiles.
- In a much quoted statement, Brezhnev once asserted that civilian production accounted for 42 per cent of the output of defence industry itself.
- A fuguing tune certainly is not some kind of failed attempt to write a fugue, as an ill-informed musicologist once asserted.
- The critic Helen Vendler once asserted that he "is not a great poet, but he is a fascinating, original and disturbing one."
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