Sentence examples for assertion fails to from inspiring English sources

Mr Roux says Mr Nel's assertion fails to account for several possibilities, including that the alarm could have been deactivated by the athlete's girlfriend.

The same point was made by Bernie Sanders during October's Democratic debate on CNN, though his assertion failed to make headlines.

An assertion by its nature presents what it is saying as true, and any assertion which fails to be true is ipso facto liable to criticism, whether or not the person making the assertion themself wished to have said something true or to have lied.

Proof Suppose by contradiction, that assertion (7) fails to be true.

This assertion simply fails to acknowledge the gains that hormesis has made within the larger scientific community.

He suggests that Darwin had other reasons for summarily dismissing Grant; i.e., "Grant was an evolutionist" (p. 70), presumably meaning that Darwin could not tolerate any rival evolutionist, a questionable assertion that Thomson fails to support and that is not consistent with the general notions expressed about Darwin's receptivity to the ideas of other evolutionists.

The tutor generates an assertion if the student fails to express the expectation after multiple hints and prompts.

"Given the Bush family's relationship with the House of Saud," he asks, "how closely would the new administration examine the rise of Islamist terrorism?" Not very closely, is Mr. Unger's answer, but he fails to substantiate that assertion.

Equally egregious, Post reporters provided Heritage spokespeople space to make false assertions and failed to refute them.

While this assertion might be true, the literature on the subject fails to demonstrate the ways in which the coca market generates incentives for corruption.

The assertion that Brazil's judiciary is both corrupt and inefficient not only fails to portray reality, but is flagrantly irresponsible.