Sentence examples for assert as the from inspiring English sources

To assert, as the report does, that these centrifuges are "civilian," and not part of Iran's weapons threat, is grossly misleading.

It is a complete falsehood to assert, as the report did, that Palestinian militants stored ammunition in United Nations schools and smuggled arms in United Nations ambulances.

In the light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of war, that intention is to assert, as the default position, a status of inviolability for the human individual, independently of any other fact about him or her.

"It is premature and unwise to assert, as the majority essentially does, that the thousands of same-sex weddings performed in San Francisco were empty and meaningless ceremonies in the eyes of the law," Justice Kennard wrote.

First, it is a slur on the integrity and principles of Hong Kong's citizens to assert, as the Chinese government's propaganda machine does, that they are being manipulated by outside forces.

Some can make a vertical climb, the researchers assert, "as long as footholds are available". .

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

To a materialist like Paul Bloom this would doubtless sound like nonsense, but it echoes what Karen Armstrong asserted as the central thesis of her wonderful book, The Case for God.

Tess remembered Lenhardt's crash course and asserted as the alpha dog.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's majority opinion rejected each of the two sources of constitutional authority that Congress had asserted as the basis for the legislation.

The look of startled fear on his face neither reflected nor inspired the quiet strength and resolve that he kept asserting as the country's response.