Sentence examples for Assert something from inspiring English sources

For after all, if truth is a norm of assertion, then, if you assert something false, you are open to criticism.

Atheists and theists are identical in one respect: they both assert something about which they know nothing.

He cannot simply assert something so damning; he must provide some real evidence or else issue an apology.

"It's one thing to have information in a classified document with caveats and footnotes, and another to have the president flatly assert something," an intelligence official said.

"The truth is, this commission really did not have access to the type of intelligence that would have been necessary to indisputably assert something new".

During the final months of last season, when City were straining to assert something of the ascendancy the new owners were so intent on establishing, Kompany played with damaged bones and ligaments in his foot.

"I can't commit legal malpractice by not asserting something because I'm in a wheelchair," he said.

If you want to destroy public confidence, solemnly asserting something that is obviously untrue is a good way to start.

David Donald asserts something like the opposite in his biography: "At about the time of Willie's death Lincoln's optimism about military affairs also began to vanish".

When it introduced the original version of this vehicle, Porsche asserted something to the effect of, "The Cayenne Turbo plays the Range Rover's game off-road better than the Range Rover plays the Cayenne's game on-road".

All of which is further evidence for the wisdom in that line from Hamlet about the lady protesting too much: strenuously asserting something is often a sign that, really, you doubt it, or believe the opposite.