Sentence examples for General assertion from inspiring English sources

Without doubt cricket and its headline players remain far more recognisable in the community, but Gallop's general assertion remains accurate.

The general assertion that the restaurants in Cape May close for half the year was unfair since the inn is open through December and reopens in mid-Feb.

In making the general assertion that "billions of taxpayer dollars spent on green energy went to jobs in foreign countries," the ad cites as evidence $1.2 billion that went "to a solar company that's building a plant in Mexico".

Decoration may record real historical events, rituals, or the official titles and careers of individuals, but its prime significance is the more general assertion of values, and the information presented must be evaluated for its plausibility and compared with other evidence.

In his written dissent, which was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Breyer said the majority had been too credulous in accepting the government's argument that national security concerns required restrictions on the challengers' speech and had "failed to insist upon specific evidence, rather than general assertion".

But Mr. Bush mentioned that plan only in passing, in the context of a fairly general assertion of his belief that his agenda, priorities and attitude of compassion should appeal to minority voters who had perhaps been suspicious of Republicans in the past.

General assertions were constructed using the computer-generated, three-way contingency table (Fienberg, 1977).

Ferguson's general assertions about the comparative age of the generations were correct, though his claim that he played "two 18-year-olds, a 19-year-old, a 20-year-old and two 21-year-olds" in the 1-0 defeagainstnst Besiktas is not entirely right.

This suggests that some admissions may indeed be avoidable, although few studies have used hospital admission as an outcome measure [ 11], and generally "...the current evidence is too sparse to make general assertions that any form of intervention or treatment constitutes 'best practice'".

It was possible, of course, to find cascades of political polemic as well as overweening jargon, but in general, assertions tended to be more modulated and variations plentiful.

Having listened to many of his speeches in recent years I find that general assertions are rarely backed up by detailed prescriptions in relation to the dilemmas that Miliband now faces.