Sentence examples for assertion left from inspiring English sources

His assertion left the critics slightly intrigued but quite unconvinced.

It's incidental that it gets you from Point A to Point B, right?" That assertion left Anne T. McCartt, senior vice president for research at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, almost speechless.

Even President Obama's new director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, wrote in a memorandum to his staff last week that "high value information came from interrogations in which these methods were used," an assertion left out when the memorandum was edited for public release.

That assertion leaves little middle ground between those adamantly opposed to Nafta and those enthusiastically in favor.

Nor would we have a letter from two Democrats to the N.S.A. director, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, saying that a government fact sheet about surveillance abroad "contains an inaccurate statement" (and where does that assertion leave Alexander's claims of the effectiveness and necessity of Prism?).

Categorical assertions leave no room for dialogue, reject the need for feedback and consign the hearer/reader to a passive role (Hyland 1996, 258).

At a rally in Ohio on Thursday, Mr. Trump suddenly blurted that he might hold up the trade accord his envoys just struck with South Korea "until after a deal is made with North Korea" — an assertion that left a lot of people puzzling over how perpetuating tensions with a critical U.S. ally could improve the prospects for negotiations with a common adversary.

The validity of these assertions is left for future research.

The first assertion I leave the reader to consider.

She is quick to correct a recent newspaper assertion that she left Cambridge with a double First.

Gotti Jr. stuck to his withdrawal defense, maintaining his assertion that he left the life of crime.