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Example sentences for: assert

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It is evident that the torturers had several different motives: to humiliate, crush, or punish the victim; to force him to cooperate; to learn the location of valuables outside; to assert one prison gang's dominance over another; to give the torturer a macho trip.
Sam Nunn and Warren Rudman assert in the same pages that the surplus should be used to pay down the deficit .
Some physicists assert that there is a tiny but real risk that the machine might create "strangelets," a new type of matter made up of strange quarks, which might start an uncontrollable chain reaction, converting anything they touch into more strange matter.
It is no wonder, therefore, that the Declaration of Independence would assert that the American people were equally entitled, with all other nations, to determine their form of government.
Contemporary texts of La Llorona collected in Mexico assert that the original Llorona was La Malinche, the mistress of Cortés.