Sentence examples for I'm asserting from inspiring English sources

The answer is no, and I can honestly maintain that I'm asserting not a point of personal preference here but a literary imperative.

The newly released deposition in Young's lawsuit quotes Spicher as saying "I'm asserting my Fifth Amendment rights" to 142 questions, including if she knew whether Terri Horman was involved in Kyron's disappearance, if the boy is still alive, and what her activities were on the day Kyron disappeared.

I'm asserting my First Amendment rights.

In his various essays on empirical truth, Habermas usually regards propositions as the truth-bearer: in making an assertion, "I am claiming that the proposition [Aussage] that I am asserting is true" (1971/2001, 86; cf. 2003a, 249ff).

The secret of that certainty is just that it involved "a clear and distinct perception of what I am asserting".

The press issue I found fraught, because I had people I respected and admired who were sincerely thinking what I was asserting was nonsense.

Descartes' answer: "In this first item of knowledge [cognitione] there is simply a clear and distinct perception of what I am asserting" (ibid).

This is what I am asserting when I ask, are we done with Duchamp?

Well, I am not equating, but I am asserting that they share a dangerous dismissal of the vitalness of democracy.

I am asserting my protest because the aftermath of this election is in no way normal or acceptable.

What I am asserting is that the appeal of the Young Girl to heterosexual older men is no innocent attraction, and that it is a male-centered construction embedded in our culture that perpetuates a deeply irresponsible misogynistic dynamic.