Sentence examples for able to assert that from inspiring English sources

And Sunday night, when the Rowdies travel north to play the relaunched Cosmos, the N.A.S.L. will at least be able to assert that the game has some present-day meaning.

Nothing could better please the American president and his advisors than to be able to assert that, in the wake of his Cairo speech, even Mr. Netanyahu had shifted ground and was open to compromise.

And the S.E.C.'s policy on settlements prohibits a denial of the conduct prompting the sanction, so Mr. Barasch would not be able to assert that he did not act improperly even though there would be no admission of a violation.

Thus Gödel was able to assert that the set of theorems of mathematics is recursively enumerable, and, more recently, the American linguist Noam Chomsky (born 1928) could say that the set of grammatical sentences of a natural language, such as English, is recursively enumerable.

Once he steps down from the pedestal of selfless public servant and joins all the other politicians hustling for votes and cash, Mr. Codey will no longer be able to assert that he is motivated out of a sense of civic responsibility rather than ambition.

Although corporate sponsors often seek confidentiality for such agreements, graduate students working on particular projects, as part of the university's team, may be able to assert that they have a need to know the contents.

To assert that ancestors are hypothetical is to assert that evolutionary descent itself is hypothetical.

Many observations of cells were made, but apparently none of the observers was able to assert forcefully that cells are the units of biological structure and function.

While we didn't quite see enough to be able to assert categorically that it will be acclaimed as a classic like its predecessors, it certainly represents a considerable change-up, while oozing an irresistible level of charm.

And, more important, we ought to be able to assert with certainty that if some object has the greatest ductility, then it also has the greatest weight.

The limiting of Mr. Picard's standing to only those claims that Mr. Madoff would be able to assert, and the finding that in pari delicto limits what can be pursued have put the multibillion-dollar claims against JPMorgan and other banks at risk.