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• “Prescription drug abuse, the administration asserted, is "America's fastest growing drug problem, driving significant increases in drug overdoses in recent years.”

  White House targets prescription drug abuse

• “I read back through my posts and the ONLY thing that I firmly asserted is that the purpose of government is to protect our rights.”

  The founding fathers believed that governments are instituted among men for the sole purpose of protecting human rights.

• ““The security situation in Iraq is truly a good one,” Keane asserted from the dais of the Willard Continental Hotel ballroom on June 11, a day after a car bomb ripped through a market, killing 30 people in Nasiriyah.”

  Guarding the Surge Narrative While Iraq Burns « Antiwar.com Blog

• “The three gangsters, with the clique they lead, have again asserted their tyrrany and thrashed all the weaklings and feeblings in the forecastle.”

  CHAPTER XLI

• “Chaplin asserted that our familiar argument that games themselves are an adolescent medium -- one I recently trotted out myself -- is a straw man.”

  Kicking The Dog

• ““The ultimate cause of atheism, Newton asserted, is ‘this notion of bodies having, as it were, a complete, absolute and independent reality in themselves.’””

  Book Review: Quantum Enigma

• “In comments to reporters on Thursday, McCain asserted that I can tell you that it is succeeding.”

  Balloon Juice » 2008 » May

• “Mauclerc's practices were bad, Watin asserted; and it was on the basis of his inferior experience that he accepted the theories that he did.”

  The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe

• “But all she's asserted is her power to be alone, and to reassert by force the role she's been trying to cast off ... even as she's fantasized about joining the goblin king since the first frame of the movie.”

  Wicked Goblin Apologist

• “Only months after Sept. 11, 2001, Finkelstein asserted his support of terrorism.”

  John Esposito: Muslims and the West

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