Sentence examples for asserting things from inspiring English sources

We're not guessing, or just assuming, or just asserting things about the way these expressive dimensions work, or how universal they can be shown to be.

They argue that all we make manifest by asserting things like "either Socrates sneezed in his sleep the night before he took the hemlock or else he didn't" is our pervasive misunderstanding of the notion of truth.

One of things that makes Bert a popular lawyer, he's very aggressive on asserting things on behalf of his clients and attacking their opponents.

Between the false stories that circulate on social media, the president's habit of asserting things that are untrue, and the heated arguments that bleed out from the internet into real life, the Trump era is frequently disorienting, and sometimes even frightening.

We are entering, in politics especially, a post-factual era in which it is apparently permissible for public figures to assert things without evidence, and then to justify their assertions by adding "Well, that's my opinion" – as though that in itself was some kind of justification.

The Soviets would have denied facts or asserted things that never happened between them and Nasser.

"The last time we met, you asserted things, saying, 'You did this,' or, 'You said that,' as though you knew what I did," Mr. Rumsfeld lectured Mr. Woodward on Sept. 20, 2003.

The reason for her huge reputation among critics, curators and other artists is that she has asserted things about art that, until quite recently, were forgotten: that it can access the unconscious; that, as she says of Dream Machines, the most hard-headed conceptual artist secretly wants to be a "visionary".

"Sometimes we are watching with surprise how strongly he asserts things," a spokesperson for the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment told the newspaper NRC Handelsblad.

We assert things like "either there were an odd or an even number of dinosaurs on this planet independently of what anyone believes" and all our actions and other assertions confirm that we really do believe this.

Some naturalistic story can, presumably, be told about how creatures like us developed the linguistic dispositions we did, in the telling of which it will emerge how we come to assert things like "the entropy of the Big Bang was very low".