Is this an answer to my assertion that even gods cannot break the laws of nature?
The last sentence is a reference to his assertions that he would step down.
I am too accustomed to your wild assertions to take them seriously.
In each instance, there was little opposition to American assertions that it had the legal authority to act.
I object to your assertion that we have been "ignoring the athletes from the rest of the world."
It has also led to some surreal situations and assertions.
But there will be little substance left to Belgrade's assertion of sovereignty.
In response to your author's assertion that discarding the old baggage of culture makes us free, I believe it does.
It is also a response to the defectors' assertion that pressure for a trial comes from a foreign intervention against the will of the people.
It was a standard technique: citing a guess by a dead authority added weight to one's assertions.