Sentence examples for absolute assertion from inspiring English sources

Although our Constitution made an absolute assertion that "all men are created equal", it then made having the right to vote itself absolutely restricted from the beginning, first white, propertied men and then a full 180 years later, to most of us.

To see the world through his eyes never ceases to startle, though he has enough self-awareness to gingerly (or cannily) avoid making too many absolute assertions — he makes liberal use of the word "probably".

Most manufacturers are aware that while their products do not have to earn FDA approval, they are subject to severe penalties if they market products containing dubious ingredients, or make absolute assertions about what a supplement will do for the consumer (hence the tiny asterisk disclaimer next to claims on vitamin and supplement labels: "These claims have not been validated by the FDA").

Due to expectations of low population differentiation in the progress towards reproductive isolation, we intend to deliberate over the paradox of population divergence in the face of migration, rather than to state absolute assertions.

Together, they leave us with a tough set of intertwining questions: Can religion — with its absolute and sweeping assertions — make any claim on a society whose doctrines require it to defer, in part, to all, even to blasphemers?

Religious truth claims cannot be ultimately verified, and thus are absolute in their assertions.

One thing is clear to anyone with the slightest knowledge of political or economic history: the present-day assertion of "absolute shareholder sovereignty" (of which the boom in takeovers is the most spectacular manifestation) is the last hurrah of nineteenth century, basically preindustrial capitalism.

His tenure with the Cleveland Orchestra was reported to have ended icily on both sides, and it was only after unhappy departures from Cleveland and Vienna in quick succession that he took over the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, which was unlikely to challenge his assertion of absolute conductorial control.

Unlike Mr Friedberg, he argues that "paradoxical as it might seem, the Asia/Pacific region's stability could well be put more at risk by America's continuing assertion of absolute primacy or dominance than by a more balanced distribution of conventional military power".

I chaired a debate on the aftermath of the Leveson Inquiry the other night, and among the panel there was absolute agreement on one assertion: that whatever form regulation of the newspaper industry takes, whether underpinned by statute or not, this will be nothing more than a short-term fix.

Literary tastes, too, have veered away from assertions of absolute truth.