Sentence examples for assertion fell from inspiring English sources

But that assertion fell on deaf ears, since PCs would make up one-third of sales* of the merged companies.

Robert Stalnaker's influential 2D account of assertion falls in this category.

Lulled by the barbershop, its archaic scents and voices, Packer, whose father grew up in a tenement across the street, relaxes his day's work of frenetic self-assertion and falls, for a few blessed moments, asleep.

** Lulled by the barbershop, its archaic scents and voices, Packer, whose father grew up in a tenement across the street, relaxes his day's work of frenetic self-assertion and falls, for a few blessed moments, asleep.

If correct, this closes the gap between a priori and a posteriori claims about computer assisted correctness proofs, but only by redrawing the boundary between a priori and a posteriori knowledge so that some empirical assertions can fall into the former category.

Assertion of personality falls between two possible legal claims, but because neither is focused on the right to personality, there are situations where the individual has no cause of action at all.

The assertions of rectitude were repeated ad nauseam and they fell on deaf ears.

Whether or not one accepts the film-is-philosophy assertion, Gehr's work falls firmly into the realm of direct experience and inquiry.

His pitch was founded on an assertion that statistics showing falling levels of offending were misleading, with his manifesto Making London Safer declaring: [A]fter ten years of a Labour government, and eight years of a Labour Mayor, we need to stop kidding ourselves about crime...we all know that we are suffering from an epidemic of unreported crime.

Any assertion of victimization would fall on deaf ears to Democrats in Kavanaugh's case.

There is no statistical evidence in support of this assertion, although it does fall within reasonable expectations.