Sentence examples for an assertion about the from inspiring English sources

McCain aides were positively gleeful last week as they watched replays aboard their campaign bus of a heated back and forth between Mr. Romney and an Associated Press reporter who challenged an assertion about the influence of lobbyists in his campaign.

So the claim 'Martians don't exist' is analyzed as an assertion about the concept martian, namely, that nothing falls under it.

The point is that chance in this case is a confession of ignorance not, as one might well think the case in the quantum world, an assertion about the way that things are.

In contrast with those who understood the Mahāyāna assertion of the emptiness (śūnyatā) of all things as an assertion about the absence or negation of identity an assertion that denied ultimate actuality to things as individual existents Fazang linked realizing the emptiness of all things to realizing that interdependence is an internal or constitutive relationship.

Many theorists assume that the logical forms of such sentences should be tripartite structures with a quantifier that quantifies over objects or situations, a restrictor that limits the quantificational domain, and a nuclear scope (main clause) that makes an assertion about the elements of the domain (e.g., see Carlson 2011; Cohen 2002; or Carlson & Pelletier 1995).

For this reason, it may be too hard to make an assertion about the homologous comparison between the RBT and the GAT.

In our first experiment, we manipulate whether a CEO uses more personal pronouns (e.g., "I" and "our" rather than "the company" and "its") in an assertion about whether the firm is "likely" or "unlikely" to win a lawsuit.

A path can be taken as representing an assertion about an individual: that the individual corresponding to the initial node belongs to the category corresponding to the final node.

General statements or claims — ones that contain no such particular references — are not necessarily universal generalizations, making an assertion about all cases of the mentioned type.

Rather than a statement "by" Hershey, it's an assertion about what was done to the company by its owners, the Hershey Trust, which controls 77% of the shareholder voting rights.

One simple but essential benefit is the ability to query a database for an annotation (an assertion about a gene product) based on a particular type of evidence.