Sentence examples for assertion of zero from inspiring English sources

The government's assertion of zero collateral deaths meets with deep skepticism from many independent experts.

But this book will not be remembered for these pages; it will be criticised and applauded for its no-holds-barred assertion of three propositions.

Mr. Sayer said school administrators learned about the bullying only about a week before Ms. Prince's death, when three of the hazing incidents described in the documents were reported, modifying his earlier assertion of two incidents.

Rakoff even cited in his ruling the trustee's assertion of one piece of evidence that showed the men had worries about Madoff: that Wilpon and Katz, after years of investing with Madoff, "seriously considered buying fraud insurance with respect to their investments in Madoff Securities".

In pragmatic terms, the assertion of one subcontrary (Some men are bald) is not only compatible with, but actually conversationally implicates, the other (Some men are not bald), given Grice's Maxim of Quantity ("Make your contribution as informative as is required"; see the entries on Paul Grice, pragmatics, and implicature).

His problem is compounded by the recent assertions of two illegal immigrants that they helped remodel Mr. Tancredo's house.

The 22-year-old Texan insisted Wednesday that he's over it, and beginning Thursday he will be fully tested in that assertion on one of the tour's most difficult tracks, against arguably the best field he will face the entire season.

In line with this assertion, of the nine genes identified to be associated with NM to date (Gupta et al., 2013), five encode structural components of the sarcomere, including ACTA1, NEB, TPM2, TPM3 and TNNT1 (Donner et al., 2002; Johnston et al., 2000; Laing et al., 1995; Nowak et al., 1999; Pelin et al., 1999).

And it is doubly brave to argue, at a time when most forms of welfare spending are under challenge, that the rat gnawing at the vitals of the American economy is growing inequality.The assertion of Bruce Ackerman and Ann Alstott, two law professors at Yale University, is that recent economic success hardly touches most Americans.

It cannot be supposed that the question of whether one is justified in thinking that some apparent competent interlocutor is sincerely testifying that p is entirely independent of the content of their apparent assertion or of one's total evidence relevant to existence of other minds and their mental contents of the appropriate sort.

Suppose I say "If you press that switch, there will be an explosion", and my hearer takes me to have made a conditional assertion of the consequent, one which will have the force of an assertion of the consequent if she presses the button.