Sentence examples for assertion would be from inspiring English sources

The lazy assertion would be the old line that talent borrows, but genius steals.

He promised jurors that assertion would be confirmed by the mother of "Baby A," who is to testify during the trial.

Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr., a deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1977 to 1981, expressed similar concerns about the interpretation of the treaty and how such an assertion would be perceived abroad.

As an analysis of the everyday concept of a right, Mill's assertion would be weak.

Evaluating the truth of such an assertion would be understood as evaluating whether A and B are indeed "the same" in the relevant way.

If (14) simply said that the butler suspected that there was a situation where Milford saved the judge's life, the assertion would be true.

Mr. Browne said late Thursday that Ms. Deferrari's assertions would "be investigated in the ongoing review of the shooting by the district attorney and Internal Affairs".

Such assertions would be no surprise from a political class justifiably concerned about possible taxpayer unhappiness, the continuing economic turmoil and the midterm elections.

Asking the executive to provide more detailed factual assertions would be to wade further into the conduct of war than we consider appropriate and is unnecessary to a meaningful judicial review of this question...

"The inappropriateness of such a course of action by the chief justice is exacerbated by the huge public interest in the case and the obvious knowledge of the chief justice that his unchallenged, untested assertions would be widely published," they said.

The lawyer said authorities wanted at least one other witness who could directly link Clemens to the use of performance-enhancing drugs, in part because of concern that any case built almost entirely around McNamee's assertions would be vulnerable to attacks on his credibility.