Sentence examples for asserted as something from inspiring English sources

The touching and dramatic courtship at the center of the novel is flatly asserted as something that happened to her great-grandfather.

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

They assert something interesting, something paradoxical, something strange or funny, and then compel us to complete their thought.

Schocken never learned to speak fluent Hebrew, but he tried to assert himself as something more than a money pot for the Zionist movement.

City Opera's former home at Lincoln Center was literally in the shadow of the Met, making it difficult for the company to assert itself as something different and exciting, not lesser.

It was not so much the loss, he asserted, as the realization that he had poured his heart and soul into trying to win something that he had thought so little about.

But still, there is something about Puddleglum's answer that represents a noble suspicion of what is asserted as established and uncontestable reality by intellectual elites.

"We do not lightly tolerate a prosecutor asserting as a fact to the jury something known to be untrue or, at the very least, that the prosecution had very strong reason to doubt".

The content fictionalist holds that in (ordinary) utterances of sentences of D some content is asserted, but what is asserted is something other than their literal content.

In fact, they pointed out, the department's federal-loan agreements with students go as far as to spell this out, if in fine print: "In some cases, you may assert, as a defense against collection of your loan, that the school did something wrong or failed to do something that it should have done".

Thus, 'taller' (maius) counts as a relative term because when we assert of something that it is taller that is, when we predicate the term 'taller' of it we necessarily do so in comparison to something else.