Sentence examples for asserted reason for from inspiring English sources

Before we can decide (he continues) whether the church's asserted reason for terminating Perich is a pretext, we must determine whether this is in fact "a central tenet of Lutheranism".

The interplay of loyalties and the struggle to assert reason over emotion keep the pages flipping.

Those who oppose legalizing aid in dying assert several reasons for doing so.

More common are pharmacists who assert religious reasons for refusing to dispense emergency contraception, the "morning after" pill that prevents pregnancy after unprotected intercourse.

The court relied heavily on ballot language, notably to, "permit registered and unregistered patients and primary caregivers to assert medical reasons for using marijuana as a defense to any prosecution involving marijuana".

Sears officials, in interviews and court papers, repeatedly asserted that the reason for this problem was because Saturdays were the busiest days, but state law enforcement officials said that was untrue.

The board's lawsuit asserts that the reason for all the questions is political retribution.

Suppose then that a person asserts that his reason for believing that the stick in water is straight is that, when the stick is in water, he can feel with his hands that it is straight.

Choi and Song (2010) assert that the reason for contradicting conclusions is a lack of information on the household income.

The reason asserted for the decision was that it was not possible to complete a full manual count of all ballots by the 5 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 26, 2000, deadline for amending certifications.

The news was in the apparent contradiction of what the president repeatedly asserted as a powerful reason for war: that Iraq had long been dangerously in cahoots with terrorists.