Sentence examples for assertion about what from inspiring English sources

In the latter case, there are sick people and dead people to back up one side's assertion about what counts as medicine; in the former case, there is only the bare presupposition, hanging unsupported by anything dispositive.

When the famous plan was unveiled, it was quite clear that he never even realized that the Heritage projection of his plan's impact made a completely ridiculous assertion about what would happen to unemployment.

This is not just an assertion about what people tend to feel but also an assertion about what people intuitively hold to be right to feel and to do.

Rather than a statement "by" Hershey, it's an assertion about what was done to the company by its owners, the Hershey Trust, which controls 77% of the shareholder voting rights.

This leads him to the conclusion that "some one or more propositions ethical in form must be regarded as axiomatic unless [and this is a big 'unless'] such propositions are materially equivalent to some assertion about what is, has been or will be".

His paper contains a number of assertions about what is crucial, without much explanation of why these things are crucial.

So Republican assertions about what ails the economy are pure fantasy, at odds with all the evidence.

"They're reacting to the immediate action on the screen with direct assertions about what they see".

He said that despite no obvious recollection of events, Starr had attempted to "bolster his case by false assertions about what happened".

"If you go out and make a lot of overblown assertions about what you're going to do," Mr. Teeter said, "you're just setting yourself up".

"We made some undefended and unfounded assertions about what we were going to do -- some of which we did end up doing," Mr. Beach said.