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For the 18 months since his resignation as defense secretary in December 2018, Mattis had been asserting a “duty of silence” as a former military commander not to directly criticize the president.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

Brunhild had been asserting that Siegfried was Gunther's vassal, or, in feudal language, his man.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Germany had been asserting her monopoly for years in the field of medicinal chemicals.

From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Lefebure, Victor

For three centuries she had been asserting the rights of her government to direct spiritual as well as temporal matters.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

But the Ancram strain in him had been asserting itself lately.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor