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The chief politician of the Bench was a great assertor of paradoxes.

From Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

You see that Strauss, who is the most strenuous assertor of the impossibility of miracles, is also a pantheist.

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Rogers, Henry

The liberty of the press is the palladium of reason, the distributor of light and learning, the public and undismayed assertor of interdicted truth.

From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

The "assertor of Celtic nationality" was thus the son of one Lowland woman and the husband of another.

From An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) by Rait, Robert S.

It is, preventively, the assertor of its own rights, or, remedially, their avenger.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund