Sentence examples for against the assertion from inspiring English sources

However, four years later the Marshall Court ruled in Little v. Barreme against the assertion that the president could exceed statutorily assigned authority during wartime.

Mr. Hitchens, of course, defended himself against the assertion that the left had never examined Stalinism's burden, arguing that "there exists a historical tradition of Marxist writers who exposed and opposed Stalin".

Whatever his global level of recognition, few would comfortably argue against the assertion that Del Piero is the most talented individual to feature in the A-League on a permanent basis.

Against the assertion that the Granger laws constituted deprivation of private property without due process of law and conflicted with the Fourteenth Amendment (1868), Waite borrowed a phrase from Sir Matthew Hale, lord chief justice of England (1671 76), to hold that, when a business or private property was "affected with a public interest," it was subject to governmental regulation.

It will be a winner-takes-all final to usurp Serbia's Jelena Jankovic as the world No1, though few would currently argue against the assertion that Serena Williams, when she puts her body and mind to it, is overwhelmingly the best player in the world.

We argue against the assertion that theory no longer matters and offer some new research directions.

Shortcomings and future work: The projected assessments have not yet been evaluated against the assertions of a human expert about the patients' health state after treatment.

For some observers, like Mr. Jones, there is a disconnect between the televised images of cleanup workers in Tyvek suits designed to protect against toxic substances and the assertion by BP and federal officials that the oiled waste need not be given the special treatment required for toxic materials.

A quick read convinced me that I could make no contribution except to warn against the improbable assertion that "this campaign is a contest between ideology and competence," presumably ascribing the former to Vice President George H. W. Bush and the latter to Mr. Dukakis.

Set that against the Biden assertion: "we are leaving Afghanistan in 2014, period.

We argue against the possible assertion that the nematodes from all samples were dead.