Related Clues:
- State firmly and positively
- State as a fact, perhaps in court
- State firmly and vigorously
- Declare, claim
- Aver, declare
- State firmly or vigorously
- State firmly and with conviction
- Speak with conviction
- Avow or corroborate
- Establish control or state as true
- Declare as true, state firmly
- You may well claim that that sounds like a good thing
- One might maintain a bit of hair going the wrong way
- You'd swear it sounded like company
- Claim that that's a sure thing, by the sound of it