It was not immediately clear what that assertion was based on.

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This was the price of a foreign policy based on assertion rather than on persuasion.

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The SNP policy is based on assertion and presumption none of which constitutes a proper defence policy for Scotland.

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Earlier this year Texas legislators introduced a bill to ban municipal networks, based on the assertion that state and local governments should be prevented from delivering telecommunications services.

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His claim to the English throne was based on the assertion it had been promised to him in 1051 by his distant cousin Edward the Confessor - a promise that Harold, Duke of Wessex, had sworn to uphold, he said.

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Part of that support - which netted him 78 percent of the Jewish vote -- was based on his repeated assertion that he is absolutely committed to Israel's security.

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Most recently, I criticized the Paris-based bureaucracy for making the rather remarkable assertion that a value-added tax would boost growth and employment.

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As they presented it, Obama's assertion that peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians must be based on the 1967 lines with agreed swaps does not mark a substantive departure from the positions adopted by his predecessors in the Oval Office.

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Based upon the sparse facts presently before us, there is no way for anyone to make an assertion, pro or con, as to whether the purchases of Lubrizol by Sokol were material events.

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