Sentence examples for assert like from inspiring English sources

This may seem unacceptable to those who assert, like Sarkozy, that satire is an "ancient French tradition".

He's making an argument related to the one Carl Wilson recently made in his smart Slate piece, The Problem With "Country for People Who Don't Like Country", in which he asserted: "Liking only the 'right' (ie, left) kind of country music … is a cultural expression of the estrangement that manifests itself in red and blue states on the political map".

It is contentious – a hand grenade, really – because in it she asserts, like an Old Testament maven from Tennessee, that being gay is a "choice", it is not innate and no one is, in Lady Gaga's words, "Born This Way".

Along with hordes of less talented imitators, she interminably asserted, like Thatcher in fact, that women no longer had to be nice and polite and that "atttitude" was a virtue not a vice.

If it's the latter, I'd like to assert that it could not happen soon enough.

I'd like to assert, as a starting point, that women have played a crucial role in shaping modern British theatre.

Here, the operator equation T x ± A x = x is considered as a perturbation of T x = x (or A x = x ), and one would like to assert that the original unperturbed equation has a solution.

I would go so far as to assert that you would like it," he wrote.

The Administration likes to assert that the initiative, if approved, would reduce power-plant emissions by seventy per cent by the year 2018.

Autocrats have long liked to assert that l'état, c'est moi — but often, even when dictators are clever and benign, there is an insuperable divergence of interests.

Many foreign governments have ordered their nationals out.The awful consequences of failureMr Bush likes to assert that an American failure in Iraq is unimaginable.