Sentence examples for asserted beliefs from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

He had asserted these beliefs in his twenties, as a lawyer in the Reagan White House, and continued to assert them in his thirties, as the principal deputy solicitor general in the first Bush Administration.

The author asserted teachers' beliefs have been found to play a significant role in the implementation of inquiry-based lessons.

One such impact could be asserted on beliefs or decisions related to work participation, for instance, when deciding on readiness to RTW.

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.

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.

He alleged that members of the United States Olympic team in Beijing were tainted – and he asserted his belief in the old reality that in the race between crime and detection the criminals, with their masking agents, would soon again step ahead.

Thus, while, or even because Hook asserted his belief in a version of Marxism as compatible with pragmatism as an experimental hypothesis, the various theses of Marxist dialectical materialism were subjected to an intensely probing and extremely skeptical criticism in his writings.