Sentence examples for asserted belief from inspiring English sources

Of course, the more unreasonable the asserted belief or misunderstanding, the more likely it is that the finder of fact will consider the asserted belief or misunderstanding to be nothing more than simple disagreement with known legal duties imposed by the law, and will find that the government has carried its burden of proving knowledge.

During his shuttle diplomacy in Libya, Mr. Ilyumzhinov was often dismissed as an improbable ambassador for Moscow because he has, over many years, declined to back down from his publicly asserted belief in space aliens, including a detailed account of an abduction.

The conditional theorem thus proven leaves the possibility of rational belief (in God) in perfect balance with rational disbelief as being one of the questions that cannot be answered with certainty by any finite being, while strongly constraining the set of admissible consistent theistic systems contingent upon axiomatically asserted belief.

By contrast, Strozzi, although a celebrity in her own time, had no way of perpetuating her reputation once she had died and in particular once the 18th and 19th centuries asserted beliefs about the exclusively masculine nature required to produce great music.

He asserted his belief that violence was not justified but that it was ex plained by the institutional vio lence of unjust social struc tures.

But, from the start of his ten-year term at the F.B.I., Comey asserted a belief in the agency's right to chart its own course.

And the Grand Opera's music director, Patrick Summers, who had led the premiere, conducted with a stylishness and assurance that asserted his belief in the work and made you believe in it too.

In Alito's now famous 1985 application for a promotion at the Justice Department, where he asserted his belief that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion," he also briefly addressed voting rights.

Additionally, APTC asserted its belief that the defendants were current and/or former employees who breached their fiduciary duties and contractual obligations by publishing "confidential material insider information" about APTC on the internet.

Harry Shiver (R) asserted that belief, saying that guns should not be placed in the hands of 'our ladies' — meaning female teachers — many of whom he believes are 'scared' of firearms.

The two men have personal profiles so closely parallel to that of Osama bin Laden, whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking on terror charges, that Yemeni investigators have repeatedly asserted their belief in Mr. bin Laden's indirect involvement.