Sentence examples for a questionable assertion from inspiring English sources

He suggests that Darwin had other reasons for summarily dismissing Grant; i.e., "Grant was an evolutionist" (p. 70), presumably meaning that Darwin could not tolerate any rival evolutionist, a questionable assertion that Thomson fails to support and that is not consistent with the general notions expressed about Darwin's receptivity to the ideas of other evolutionists.

Room for improvement: Makes a major point out of its questionable assertion that Aids drug AZT is "poison" and doesn't work.

But he has in the past been robust in his dismissal of the accusations and is well-known for a blunt, if not quite relevant and plainly questionable, assertion: "Communists do not murder people".

Many other extremely scathing critiques of the Shang research were published in the Lancet shortly after publication, including the exclusion of one high quality homeopathic study due to the questionable assertion that the researchers could not find a study in all of conventional medical research that treated patients with polyarthritis (arthritis that involves five or more joints).

In addition to the predictable (and questionable) assertion that the performances have now been made palatable for young listeners who disdain the constrictions of historical recordings, RCA can argue that these new versions, free of the sonic and musical compromises of the originals, are more akin to what Caruso's audiences heard in the opera house.

That quote contains a number of highly questionable assertions (perhaps most glaringly the idea that the investigation was "based upon" the Steele dossier; it started months earlier, as even House Republicans have acknowledged).

Manigault Newman is on a publicity tour for her new book, a collection of eyebrow-raising and often questionable assertions about her time in the White House.

In so doing, the Court announces a rule that gives Congress a perverse incentive to legislate broadly pursuant to the Commerce Clause–nestling questionable assertions of its authority into comprehensive regulatory schemes–rather than with precision.

And he made questionable assertions, including one — that the E.P.A. had never found a case of unsafe hydraulic fracturing of natural gas — that was plainly false.

But he offered no specific evidence in the speech to support its two major claims, and he made some questionable assertions, including one statement — that there had never been a case of unsafe hydraulic fracturing of natural gas — that was plainly false.

But by making questionable assertions about the roots of the crisis and then making a link to Mr. McCain's health care plans, Mr. Obama opens himself to the same criticism that Mr. McCain has faced about the truthfulness of his attacks.