Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also, they assert such bickering detracts fromAgran's effort to promote his vision of the "NewAmerican Security...
...medal to her, but fell on the first turn. Later, in the 1,000 m, he fell again. Despair is too mild a word to describe the look on his face as he lifted himself from the ice. Four years later, a still introverted Jansen and his protective family assert that Calgary no longer haunts him. "There are other things in his life now," says his brother Michael. "He's married, and he's not as serious." Coming into the Albertville Games, Jansen was in the best shape of his life, buoyed by the enthusiasm and whipcracking...
...writers prefer to leave the real talking to themselves and not their sources. In what is the writers' deceptive modus operandi, Araton and Bondy will extrapolate from quoted statements and assert their own viewpoints and characterizations, often implying the quoted individual is saying what the writers believe...
According to Malone, the sermon intended to assert that the crucifixion was the ultimate sacrifice...
Defendants over the years have advanced some bizarre arguments to assert insanity. Last year, for instance, a Florida forensic psychiatrist who was charged with bribery unsuccessfully argued that he was driven insane by his years of work with criminals. "Being a forensic psychiatrist for a long time is not a mental defect," declares Dr. Park Elliott Dietz of Newport Beach, Calif. Usually, defendants must have a defined mental illness. Moreover, it has to be directly linked to the crime. "Someone may have schizophrenia or manic-depressive illness, but that doesn't mean they didn't know what they were doing...