Sentence examples for based on assertions and from inspiring English sources

It asks the question "How do we know what we know?" Epistemology is useful to keep in mind when considering private military and security contractors (PMC) because so much of what passes for common wisdom or orthodoxy is based on assertions and generalizations instead of verified facts.

Their opposition was – and is – based on assertions that the new rules would significantly raise the cost of home care for consumers and reduce work opportunities and income for workers.

"In the past," they concluded, "the absence of scientific evidence meant that the presumption of legitimacy could rarely be rebutted and claims based on assertions that irregular procreations had occurred in the distant past were particularly difficult to establish.

Arguments in defense of pacifism are usually based on assertions about the immorality of violence and war.

Your support of the carriage horse industry in New York is based on assertions that the "horses are well treated and monitored closely by the city".

They are based on assertions contained in an interim report from Asada and will be vigorously defended," the Bombers chairman, Paul Little, said.

The ultimate ruling in the case, the company said, was partly based on "assertions which were not included in the statement of objections issued in April 2000, and which the company has therefore not been able to refute".

Yet the DoJ's case is flimsy, based on assertion, coincidence and lobbying from Amazon, says Benedict Evens of Enders Analysis.

Some news media outlets in Britain and Germany have carried reports based on assertions of exiled Iraqi opposition figures that the Iraqi leader is in intensive care after the stroke.

That account was based on assertions by Ms. Polk in the couple's divorce proceeding, which were not specifically challenged by Dr. Polk and were supported by statements from people who knew the couple.

Presto: the IRS "scandal," based on assertions from conservatives in Congress that the agency had targeted only right-wing C4s for scrutiny.