Sentence examples for asserted what from inspiring English sources

One asserted, "What were war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy in 2003".

Instead of reaching out to Congress and the courts for support, which would have strengthened its legal hand, the administration asserted what Goldsmith considers an unnecessarily broad, "go-it-alone" view of executive power.

"Yahoo hasn't asserted what it wants to be — whether it wants to be a media or technology company — and Carol, rightly or wrongly, is being blamed for a bad search deal and a less than stellar performance," said Jordan Rohan, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus.

In it he asserted what many fighting men from the northern Midwest were feeling, as the war neared its second anniversary, especially given the antiwar sentiments of many remaining on the home front: We are done carrying on this war on peace principles.

This changed with American entry into World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson asserted what he saw as new and better principles: not merely maintaining a balance of power but also creating a cooperative world order based on the universal applicability of democratic institutions.

Addressing him in his own introductory remarks, Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, asserted: "What we must have — what our legal system demands — is a fair and unbiased umpire, one who calls the game according to the existing rules and does so competently and honestly every day".

First, it is worth considering whether one couldn't accept the idea, for reasons such as those outlined above, that in asserting that p one represents oneself as knowing that p, while taking the rule governing assertion to be, say, 'Do not assert what you take yourself not to know,' or some such.

Belief, acceptance, and assertion have a point: when we believe and assert, what we aim at is believing and asserting what is the case or, equivalently, the truth.

"It asserts what the site is all about.

Monbiot vigorously asserts what the government should do to meet our energy and climate security needs.

Don't assert what is not yet established by the facts.