Sentence examples for assert as much from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — President Obama loves basketball, as everyone is reminded in March — especially in an election year in which he has been jumping through you-know-whats to assert as much.

The council has only parish status but Padiham retains the title of town and uses traditional civic regalia and the town hall to assert as much independence as it can against Burnley borough council.

"The Revolution made them," Rakove asserts, "as much as they made the Revolution".

The English writer Bernard Mandeville asserted as much nearly three centuries ago in a satirical-poem-cum-philosophical-treatise called "The Fable of the Bees".

Mr. Grogan sent a letter to the Essex County prosecutor, Donald C. Campolo, asserting as much, but the state has not pursued the matter.

It may be that a philosophical belief in universal human rights can survive the rejection of God as easily as a scientific belief that F=MA, but asserting as much doesn't make it so.

Both President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush confidently asserted as much.

Mr. Milner asserted that as much information was created every 48 hours in 2010 as was created between the dawn of time and 2003.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, asserted almost as much in a recent homily in Rome, saying that "the very nature of the papacy is to hand on faithfully what God told us of Jesus, what Jesus told his apostles, and what his apostles hand on to us — tradition, with a capital T".

As the weeks went on, outside experts speculated that much higher amounts of oil were being discharged into the Gulf every day, with one scientist publicly asserting that as much as 100,000 barrels per day could be flowing into the Gulf.

No longer able to assert their masculinity as much through their gender, straight men turned to sexuality.