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verb as in order and expect; claim

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assert, contend, demand, hold, maintain, press, reiterate, repeat, request, stand firm, urge, vow

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But he insisted it was "not a scandal".

The farming minister has urged farmers to "look calmly" at the government's plans to make them pay inheritance tax and insisted that "the vast majority will be fine".

The president-elect has insisted cost won't be an issue, but experts have cautioned that his promises may run into enormous financial and logistics challenges.

"At the same time, however, they are ready to retaliate if Trump insists on imposing higher tariffs on China."

Mr Pelicot has repeatedly denied this was the case, insisting that when he recruited men on the internet he made it abundantly clear that his wife would be asleep.