Sentence examples for asserts a point from inspiring English sources

He called Samson's language a "paradoxical assertion," where a person asserts a point in one part of a statement and then negates it in another.

FORECASTS involving climate change are highly uncertain, denialists assert — a point that climate researchers themselves readily concede.

The answer is no, and I can honestly maintain that I'm asserting not a point of personal preference here but a literary imperative.

Helena, published in 1950, is a novel about the mother of Constantine the Great, in which Waugh re-created one moment in Christian history to assert a particular theological point.

Later in the day, a Bulger associate, Stephen Flemmi, took the stand for just a few minutes, but it was long enough for him to assert a couple of points devastating to the defense.

Galvin asserts that after a point, even those clients took second seat to Merrill's concern about its own exposure to the securities.

The agreement contains several enumerated points asserting a general commitment to the idea that "climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time" and asserts that "deep cuts" in global emissions were required.

However, the whole point of asserting a transworld identity is to represent the fact that an individual could have had somewhat different properties from its actual properties.

On these points Xunzi was asserting a fundamental disagreement with the thinkers that are now often called Legalists.

Pickard ([2001]) asserts to this point in that there is a need to protect and conserve the built and social composition in urban areas against threat posed by neglect, deliberate demolition and incongruous new construction.

It's not surprising, not at all, that the first revision of a talking point may have asserted an incorrect causation.