A mile-high structure would assert our conviction to move emphatically on and up, not backward and down.
I was stumped by a lot of them, I'm sorry to say, but I can assert with conviction that the inspiration for "Hey, Jude" was not Judith Krantz.
William Kristol, the founder of The Weekly Standard, ventured to assert with conviction on Fox News, "She can recover substantially if she gets the proper rehabilitation".
If it did nothing else than persuade Johnson to clarify his views on Islam, assert his conviction that it is indeed a religion of peace, and get him to visit a few mosques in an attempt to win back votes he was convinced he had lost, then it was a great success.
When Cyrus lit a joint at an awards ceremony, having already done her best in recent weeks to assert her conviction that she was the first woman in the world to ever have sex, the act of rebellion felt about as spontaneous as the lighting of the candle on the orange at a Christingle service in my mum's local church.
In these cases, one often sees Voltaire defending less a carefully reasoned position on a complex philosophical problem than adopting a political position designed to assert his conviction that liberty of speech, no matter what the topic, is sacred and cannot be violated.
Thus, irrespective of the attractive hypothesis that the muscles of children and elderly men are damaged less than those of young adults because their muscles contain fewer type IIb muscle fibers, we cannot assert with conviction that this is the only reason why the muscles of children are less sensitive to exercise-induced damage.
He refused to defend Nutt, and asserted his conviction that ecstasy was as harmful as heroin and crack cocaine.
Macdonald asserted a conviction — borrowed, in part, from Burnham's "The Managerial Revolution" (1941), though he had written critically of the book — that the country was headed toward a social system that was the moral equivalent of German and Soviet totalitarianism.
While many quickly connect asexuals with organisms like mosses and amoebas, one man asserts with conviction that there's "no such thing" as asexual human beings.
He appeared to assert that a conviction of McDonnell would criminalize normal interactions between citizens and government officials.
