Sentence examples for basically asserting from inspiring English sources

The Citigroup settlement differs from that, because the S.E.C. is basically asserting that Citigroup misled its own shareholders, whereas it said Goldman misled its customers.

Andreessen then refutes Sacks' argument point by point, basically asserting that larger companies are, in many cases, less equipped than startups to execute on novel and world-changing ideas (Apple Ping anyone?), as they care more about stability than change.

Not thrilled with this morning's Verizon-Google seven-tier joint policy proposal, FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps put out the following one paragraph statement earlier today, basically asserting that the FCC is more interested in protecting consumer rights than Google and Verizon's wishes.

Since 1973 American soldiers have repeatedly been used in numerous countries around the world, and every president has given lip service to the Act, but they've always done so under protest -- basically asserting "this Act is a usurpation of Executive power and is probably unconstitutional, but to avoid a showdown I am complying with it... for now".

The Court basically asserted that most attempts to regulate the private marketplace, or to protect workers, were unconstitutional.

Keynesian economics basically asserts proposition 1. Testing that proposition is tricky, but that's always the case in economics; you have to look for natural experiments, or be very careful about controls.

The theory basically asserted, in the words of the economist Burton Malkiel, that "a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts".

The argument is complex — think of it as Asterix meets "Longitude" — but Mr. Robb basically asserts that the Celts followed the directions of their druids, a caste of scholar-priests who believed in following the path of the sun at the solstice to guide their vast tribal migrations.

On Monday, James Taranto, an editor at the Wall Street Journal, a widely read and respected broadsheet, published a piece in which he basically asserted that rape victims who are drunk at the time of their attack are as much to blame as their rapist.

Nowhere is this more basically asserted than in Christ's geneology as offered by Matthew, where the extension of covenant to gentiles like Rahab and Ruth is explicit.

This doctrine basically asserts that the British had exclusive colonial rights to "discovered" territories in the Americas, and thereby the right to claim Native lands to the exclusion of other European powers.