Sentence examples for a striking assertion from inspiring English sources

Casting Bale, one of Hollywood's most sought-after stars, is also a striking assertion of the Chinese film industry's aspiration for equal status with its American competitors.

A study by psychiatrists at Duke University, published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, in 2006, made a striking assertion: about half the Presidents they studied had suffered a mental illness at one time or another.

That's a striking assertion, but the study's model left out several important real-world factors.

That's a striking statement.

But Mr. Sullivan also offered a new and striking assertion: that Mr. Stevens had not been familiar with the details of the project and could not have knowingly concealed the costs, because Mr. Stevens's wife of 28 years, Catherine Stevens, had the principal responsibility to look after the details of the renovation.

The more fertile ground for querying the poll is to be found around the wording of the question which led to The Sun's striking assertion.

But the most striking assertion in the suit, one Smithfield devotes five pages to, is that the union was engaged in racketeering when it urged local governments in New York, Boston and other cities to pass resolutions condemning the company.

There are a number of striking assertions by the Office of Budget Responsibility, whose forecasts underpinned the chancellor's Autumn Statement.

In one of his more striking assertions, Mr. Moallem said the refugees who had fled Syria had been manipulated into leaving by Syria's neighbors to create an artificial crisis so those neighbors could receive foreign aid.

Tanabe finally came to his senses and, in a striking metanoetic turn, renounced these political assertions and dove into the philosophy of religion.

In support of this assertion, we recently reported a striking dose response relation between serum concentrations of POPs and diabetes in the general population with background exposure to POPs (Lee et al. 2006b).