Sentence examples for against assertions from inspiring English sources
Mr. Tucker had to defend himself against assertions by former Barclays executives that the Bank of England had been aware of attempts to influence rates.
At that time, he was defending his agency against assertions by Walter Hang, an activist and head of Toxic Targeting, a firm specializing in documenting pollution.
But I would actually defend my colleagues against assertions that this predictive lapse was, in and of itself, all that much of a failure.
Officials disclosed more information about their request to Hong Kong to detain and return Mr. Snowden, defending themselves against assertions that they had mishandled the request.
It did not appear that there would be any immediate resolution for Mr. Rove, who has spent months defending himself against assertions that his legal troubles are distracting him from his White House duties.
The debate over how to expand battlefield surveillance prompts Air Force officials to defend against assertions that the service is letting its historic romance with white-scarf pilots detract from the defense secretary's priority of increasing surveillance over the battlefield.
Ira Glass, host of "This American Life," argued against assertion that NPR has a liberal bias in its news programming on a recent episode of "On the Media".
I know I have spent my career fighting against muscular assertions of judicial power.
Nothing can ever count as evidence against such assertions, because they do not rest on evidence in the first place.
Just yesterday, for example, a closely divided Supreme Court made it harder for death row inmates to obtain federal relief when a state court denies their right to defend themselves against prosecutors' assertions that they will endanger society unless executed.
The speech was the latest attempt by the campaign to fight back against incorrect assertions that Mr. Obama will not recite the Pledge of Allegiance, place his hand over his heart during the national anthem or wear a flag pin on his lapel.
