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"We want Europe to assert its ambition in crewed spaceflight," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

“The government totally could assert itself and implement safeguards.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

The prime minister said on Monday that King Felipe VI would visit Ceuta "as soon as conditions allow", seen as an attempt to assert Spanish authority over the exclave.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

“America will never acknowledge that we don’t have enough ammunition. It will assert that it has the ability to walk and chew gum,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

I was not even my parents’ son in 1928 but a devilishly smooth impostor, awaiting their slightest blunder as an excuse to move in—preferably without violence, but not necessarily—to assert my true identity.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

Raman, who was recently endorsed by DSA’s L.A. chapter, asserts that fixing street lights and potholes isn’t an ideological endeavor, however, and — not unlike Pratt — has framed herself as an agent for change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

He said: "The Secretary of State asserts that disclosure would harm national security."

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

But like its creator, Schoenbrun’s film asserts that media can be integral to personal identity.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

It asserts that the ABA’s accreditation wing isn’t sufficiently independent of its profession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“You’re hiding something,” Autumn asserts with eyes of steel.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The defense ministry has asserted the legality of its operations in Guaviare.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

The majority concluded that her asserted injury probably does not cross Article 3’s threshold.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

He asserted in court filings that he believed Dylan — whose surname was Mendell at the time — was 18 and a member of the video production crew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

But as the conflict has worn on, and Tehran has asserted control it didn’t have before over global energy flows in the strait, his priorities appear to have shifted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

There never has been a man who asserted anything with more effectiveness, nor whose affirmations rested upon greater oaths, who observed them less.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

OpenAI filed a legal response asserting that Apple filed a baseless trade secret theft lawsuit to hamper OpenAI’s recruiting and stall its AI work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

All of them have top-flight or international experience, as well as physicality to their game, but even those additions did little to prevent Arsenal from asserting their superiority on Friday night.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The ICC expressed concern over those withdrawals, asserting that such countries risked undermining the collective pursuit of justice.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

“People wait their whole life to find their calling,” Casey’s teacher tells her about the scholarship, asserting that a natural fluency in science means it must be her destiny.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

Hawaiian chiefs were typical of chiefs elsewhere, in asserting divinity, divine descent, or at least a hotline to the gods.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond