Sentence examples for asserts rather from inspiring English sources

This secularism Berlinerblau asserts rather fetchingly, is undertaken in a "curmudgeonly spirit".

Mr Piketty asserts rather than explains why tempering wealth concentration should be the priority (as opposed to, say, boosting growth).

This is important, moreover, because it is (1) that Rowe needs, since the conclusion that he is drawing does not concern simply the next morally relevant property that someone might consider: conclusion Q asserts, rather, that all further morally relevant properties will lack property J.

As Tarek's father, Dr. Mahmoud Loubani asserts, rather than punish them, "If the Egyptian authorities...know about their mission, they should reward them and be proud of them".

And yet, he asserts, rather simplistically, that during the Cold War civil religion "required" recalcitrant Republicans and Dixiecrats "to pretend (at least) to practice what it preached about racial equality and social uplift lest it make a mockery of its own propaganda throughout the decolonized world".

But throughout, it seems as if Washington's importance is being asserted rather than demonstrated.

She still tends to assert rather than probe her most profound themes.

And her fears of mental illness seem asserted rather than felt.

Zen teachers typically assert rather that all of these practices must be performed correctly as authentic expressions of awakening, as exemplified by previous generations of Zen teachers.

By asserting, rather audaciously, that America's level of military spending is not a "net drain" on the economy, they imply the return on the marginal trillion is positive.

Even its stated premise, that the SDNY is the crown jewel of America's lower federal courts, is asserted rather than demonstrated: the author fails to compare its historical importance or quality of jurisprudence with those of any other district, and dedicates half a chapter to lampooning its least distinguished judges.