Due to his earlier assertion that "it's an honor" to give the men refuge, he refuses to betray them.

We need something more specific than their earlier assertion that sometime in the future, they hope for a Korean peninsula without nuclear weapons.

He repeated his earlier assertion yesterday that negotiators are "where we should have been a month ago."

I repeat my earlier assertion: nothing has changed.

But he also backed away from earlier assertions that the board had approved of all his activities.

He appeared in good health despite earlier assertions by his captors that he was near death.

Officials have backed away from early assertions that a number of Arabs were among the attackers.

The White House also made public the auditor's review, which it said documented the earlier assertions.

But he backed away from earlier assertions that his party was now "the leading political force in Mexico."

Now investigators are declining even to discuss their earlier assertions and court filings.