Sentence examples for an assertion of fact from inspiring English sources

It may be good advice; but as an assertion of fact it is false.

"Equality is a moral idea," Singer points out, "not an assertion of fact".

Now the conventions mentioned here are not exceptionless: for example, one can use sentences in the declarative mood ('My favourite drink is Belhaven 60 shilling') to give an order (for some Belhaven 60 shilling), one can use sentences in the interrogative mood ('Is the Pope a Catholic?') to make an assertion (of whatever fact was the subject of the discussion), and so on.

"We did it again" may read triumphantly, but after being played in a loop for four minutes it becomes a simple assertion of fact.

"Claiming The Daily Sentinel is 'fake news' is a provably false assertion of fact stated with malice," said Seaton, who used to work as a lawyer.

Wes implicitly endorses the external voice because the sentence serves as a bare assertion of facts and he does not indicate his opposition to such a claim.

The process of independently verifying every assertion of fact in a story — every detail and hypothesis — is such a valuable and endangered art these days that I enjoy explaining it to questioners in more detail than they usually expect.

One key paragraph - critical to framing the piece so it was not a declaration of fact but an assertion of what might happen if worst came to worst - became a battlefield with her for days; and all I can say is, I lost.

Max Frankel, former executive editor, The New York Times Journaliststs have not only the right but a responsibility to challenge government – its behaviour, its reasoning and its assertion of fact.

Presumably this was meant more as an assertion of right than as a statement of fact.

"Whilst that may be considered by some as deplorable, only claims which amount to assertion of fact are likely to meet the test for undue influence," Watt said.