Sentence examples for backed the assertion from inspiring English sources

Soylent's latest blog post backed the assertion.

At least two airline industry unions, the Allied Pilots Association and the Association of Flight Attendants, have publicly backed the assertions of the officers' group.

Other family members pointed to the man's birthmark and his knowledge of the family home and history to back the assertion that the man is South Africa's long-lost hero.

Unlike argument, where a speaker explicitly presents reasons to back the assertion, in normal testimony the speaker does not.

Russia fiercely opposes any such action, backing the assertions of Damascus that Syrian rebels were behind the chemical attacks.

Few backed the agency's assertion that the whole-body imagers — the kind that provide an image of the naked body — would be welcomed by the public.

The United States has backed the smaller nations' assertions that talks over disputes should be multilateral, rather than bilateral negotiations that could give China the advantage.

The sale added Vanderbilt to a growing list of colleges and universities, including Rice University in Houston and the University of San Francisco, where college radio licenses are being sold off, backed by the assertion that today's well-wired students no longer tune in to the medium.

The lawsuit backs the core assertion by Mayor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, that marriage definitions in the state's family code violate the State Constitution.

Fortunately, as Tisdall also notes, respectable people on the right have backed the president's proper assertion of his authority.

It denies the assertion and has publicly backed the moratorium.