Sentence examples for assertion upon from inspiring English sources

That last is an assertion upon which any given issue of Science Times will be sure to pounce.

But there is also a tremendous forward thrust, a piling of assertion upon assertion, of proverb upon proverb, which gives the poem its overall tempo.

At the conference, Paul Auwaerter, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University, said Bolívar likely died of arsenic ingestion, an assertion seized upon by state media here to support the claim that Bolívar was murdered.

This can be taken further; someone can explain to the character why things are the way they are, but they can make an even more ignorant assertion based upon that.

Allies of the organization make empty assertions, seizing upon Robert Heinlein's line "An armed society is a polite society," for example.

Many GO Biological Process annotations are assertions based upon mutant phenotypes.

The deontologist might attempt to back this assertion by relying upon the separateness of persons.

Statements from both Mrs. Grimaldi and Mr. Tsoulos cast some doubt upon this assertion.

Prosecutors wrote that they believed Mr. Harris's defense would center upon the assertion that he believed he was being permitted by the police to walk on the roadway, but added that they thought old Twitter messages might show otherwise.

Critics of the decision noted yesterday that Mr. Schwarz personally stood up in court in Sept. 1998 and fought against the efforts by prosecutors to disqualify his lawyer on the very conflict of interest assertion the court seized upon yesterday.

Mitchell likewise offers meticulous documentary evidence in Roger Casement, but within a comparatively fluid and clear narrative history that depends problematically upon his assertion that the British government, from the Cabinet to the National Archive, has pursued an insidious, sweeping policy of individual defamation over the past century.