Sentence examples for a startling assertion from inspiring English sources

But Carens makes a startling assertion toward the end of his book.

When the defense lawyers offered their version of the case, they made a startling assertion that turned the government's allegation on its head.

It was a startling assertion for the leader of a communist country, where crackdowns on dissidents in the past had drawn sharp Vatican criticism.

The sole arrival is the elderly Mr. Donovan (Robert Hogan), who expresses admiration for Lucy before bringing forth a startling assertion: the house doesn't technically belong to Hannah and Nessa, although they are the heirs to their grandparents' estate.

By Paul Rudnick **{:.break one} ** Parents would certainly deny it, but Canadian researchers have made a startling assertion: parents take better care of pretty children than they do ugly ones.

Yet Ullmann made a startling assertion: "People assume that I was the muse for Ingmar's female characters, and that Max and Erland Max von Sydow and Erland Josephsonson, Bergman's chief leading men — "were his alter egos.

Their work, compiled in the "Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance," a 900-page academic book that will be published next month, makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated.

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It is a startling statement.

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Buried beneath the mummeries and straining-to-be-memorable passages of the opinion is a candid and startling assertion: No matter what it was the People ratified (in states that passed bans on gay marriage), the Fourteenth Amendment protects those rights that the Judiciary, in its 'reasoned judgment,' thinks the Fourteenth Amendment ought to protect.