Sentence examples for assert only from inspiring English sources

This in turn suggests that there is a rule, or norm, governing the practice of making assertions that requires us to assert only something we know.

Williamson defends an account of assertion based on the rule that one must assert only what one knows.

Under the Patriot Act, the F.B.I. must assert only that the records gathered through the letter are considered relevant to a terrorism investigation.

Under the law, officials have to assert only that foreign intelligence is a part of their need; before that, it had to be the only purpose.

This doctrine is important because a bankruptcy trustee can assert only those claims that the bankrupt company could, and if there would be a valid in pari delicto claim against the company, then it can be asserted against the trustee.

As for the White House, officials will assert only that the president never saw the Mychal Judge law as a gay issue, and that the brief e-mail announcing its enactment was business as usual.

Even his colour asserts only itself.

At one point Justice Kagan asserted: "Only one thing is missing from the court's response: any reasoning to support this conclusion".

Cleopatra, Goldsworthy asserts, "only had importance in the wider world through her Roman lovers," but the seduction that assured her immortality was that of a Greek writer.

After all, many economists asserted only a few years ago that an unemployment rate around 6percentt is about the best the economy could do.

The state approved an initiative in 2000 that asserted, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California".