Sentence examples for accepting the assertion from inspiring English sources

In his appeal court ruling last year Lord Phillips, Master of the Rolls, said that he had "difficulty" accepting the assertion of the attorney general that courts could make it a criminal offence for a newspaper to fail to obtain clearance from him before publishing material to which he might not object.

Asking for simple directions provides a handy illustration of the DR: If a stranger (speaker) tells you to turn right at the next corner in answer to your request to find a gasoline station, you are justified in accepting the assertion without being told you how the speaker knows it.

But Mr. Jenkins's family in the United States has never accepted the assertion that he defected.

But he also does not accept the assertion that they did it "because it was permitted.

Yes, he might have accepted the assertion by one of Jones's attorneys, F. Hill Allen, that Jones had made a courageous, legacy-unraveling admission, had already been "pilloried, battered and dragged through the public square".

The whole play feels a lot like improv actors playing the game "Yes, And" — in which one character states a plot development or premise that is totally outlandish, and the others have no choice but to accept the assertion and build on it.

It looks suspiciously like a cover-up for other senior managers who had many opportunities to learn about the deal.There is no way of knowing whether the Department of Justice and bank regulators in America will accept the assertion that Mr Peyrelevade had no knowledge of anything untoward in connection with Executive Life.

I refused to fully accept the assertion, even as "This is why" tiles began falling into place in my memory, spelling out the truth like a demented Scrabble game.

A major premise of Census activities in the U.S., that maintaining biodiversity is a worthy goal, accepts the assertion [3] that the survival and well-being of humans depend on intact, fully functioning ecosystems.

This committee accepted the assertion by the U.S. EPA that human exposure limits based on liver cancer would be sufficiently protective against cancer developing in other tissues.

However, if one accepts the assertion that the upper limit of the dynamic range of microarrays is between 15 and 16 at Log2 scale, then the limit is comparable to that of one lane of 3' tag DGE using the older version GA I platform, which generates 3-5 million tags per lane.