Sentence examples for asserts first from inspiring English sources

It asserts, first, that organisms evince to have been designed; and second, that only God could account for the design.

Brewer asserts, " 'First catch your hare,' is a very old phrase... .. then it points to a passage in "the 13th century Bracton".

Concerning these truisms he then asserts, first, that he knows them for certain, second, that other people likewise know for certain the truth of comparable truisms about themselves and, third, that he knows this second general truth (and, by implication, others do too).

Judge Conrad Cyr in his opinion asserted First Amendment protection for libraries.

Corporations can own property, sue people and be sued, even assert First Amendment rights.

Another way of putting this is that those who assert the rights of animals are in effect asserting – first and foremost – a right to life for all animals.

A company, as an eighteenth-century British jurist once remarked, has "no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked". Corporations can own property, sue people and be sued, even assert First Amendment rights.

By contrast, the synthetic style of presentation begins by asserting first principles and then to determining what follows.

Perkins asserted, first, that Jesus meant this parable to be a positive example for his followers; and second, that the parable demonstrates that Jesus supported unrestricted, free-market capitalism.

Having previously reserved the question of whether federal statutory rights could be enforced in state courts,37 the Court in Alden v. Maine38 held that states could also assert Eleventh Amendment "sovereign immunity" in their own courts.

As Ars Technica reports, Microsoft filed an additional brief on Sunday night arguing that it has "special circumstances" as a third party asserting fourth amendment rights on behalf of its users.