Sentence examples for assertion sounds from inspiring English sources

The assertion sounds appealing at first.

The assertion sounds like a vain, sad boast coming from a man who lives in a cramped trailer outside Jacksonville.

It was one of those speeches that are meant to be self-evidently persuasive, in which each separate assertion sounds reasonable enough -- but the links between them are all wrong.

The Tory leader's assertion sounds very like the claims those Northern Ireland Conservatives used to make back in the late 1980s, when they urged both Tories and Labour to organise in the Province and help transform politics from Orange versus Green to left versus right.

Even to my own ears, the assertion sounded unseemly.

Neither assertion sounded convincing, I suspect not even to a smiling Dang Dinh Ky, who said the Hanoi government is striving to improve hotel accommodations for all tourists.

Given the howling political firestorm over Richard A. Clarke's new book, "Against All Enemies," it is surprising how familiar many of his assertions sound, his recitation of pre-9/11 antiterrorism missteps by the Bush and Clinton administrations echoing earlier books and old newspaper and magazine articles.

This assertion may sound far-fetched.

Given its vast cash reserves and the glacial pace of business reckonings, this assertion will sound exaggerated.

Mr. Scherman's assertion that "sound alone isn't music" until it "becomes a song" may be true for pop electronic groups like Everything But the Girl and Massive Attack, who adhere to traditional pop song formats to receive radio play.

As Christians immerse themselves in the Advent season to prepare for Christmas, such assertions might sound like blasphemy or pure fantasy.