I use the example of the novelist Joseph Conrad his atheism completely rejects the idea of progress, and yet he still admires human self-assertion in the face of a kind of bleak situation that cannot be overcome.
But his assertion flies in the face of the facts.
Democratic officials in Washington and Michigan responded that Mr. Fehrnstrom's assertion flew in the face of both the time line of events and the financial reality that was facing the companies at the time.
That assertion flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that writing a business plan is one of the first and most essential tasks an entrepreneur should undertake, Mr. Goldfarb acknowledged.
This ludicrous assertion flies in the face of basic economic theory and our own economic history.
One characteristic of alternations is that they preserve the underlying semantics of an assertion even in the face of syntactic variability.
Such assertions fly in the face of the Alevis' long-running demands that Cemevis be granted the same state subsidies as an estimated 90,000 mosques across Turkey.
These assertions fly in the face of observations of homosexual behaviour in many other animal species and studies proving it is far from a choice in humans.
Both of these assertions fly in the face of the facts available (as the Bloomberg response makes clear).
It is an untested assertion that flies in the face of reason.
