Sentence examples for assertions attributed to from inspiring English sources

I'd have much more faith in assertions attributed to these ghosts if they were instead made in the authors' own voices.

Ben Quinn And this on Lembit Opik Former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik told the US ambassador that Nick Clegg was thin-skinned, overly reliant on cronies, and stole one of his ideas, according to assertions attributed to Opik in a leaked diplomatic dispatch from March 2008.

The item's most sensational assertion, attributed to "sources," was that "interrogators, in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Koran down a toilet".

The President is an unnamed but implicit factor in the paranoid assertion — attributed to Roof but certainly not limited to him — that blacks are taking over the country.

Mr. Amis suggests that by looking at one individual death -- namely, his sister's -- he is delivering a kind of response to the assertion attributed to Stalin that "a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic".

The assertion attributed to Mr. Bradlee added the weight of one of the country's best-known editors to months of speculation that Mr. Armitage could be Mr. Woodward's source.

It is not settled.Matt Ridley NewcastleRussia and NATOSIR – I would like to express my utter astonishment at Charlemagne's groundless assertion, attributed to a diplomat, that "the entire Russian mission" at NATO headquarters "is staffed by spies" (November 21st).

That assertion, attributed to Albert Einstein but perhaps apocryphal, is voiced in "More Than Honey," a fascinating but rambling documentary about the decimation of the world's bee population through the phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder.

The statement attributed to Mr. Snowden cited Mr. Obama's assertion last week that he would not permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" with other countries that may wish to grant him asylum.

Sometimes large and scary job loss numbers are attached to the assertion and attributed to a study, most often financed by the affected industry.

3. "…But now 55 percent of the disabilities [SSI] covers are fuzzier intellectual disabilities short of mental retardation, where the diagnosis is less clear-cut…." (Kristof) This assertion, not attributed to any source and thus adopted by Mr. Kristof as his own, reveals that Mr. Kristof failed to do his own independent and objective research.