Sentence examples for basically asserts that from inspiring English sources

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.

He maintains his $2 target on the stock, and basically asserts that the core business is worth nothing at all.

The very theory basically asserts that if you save a dollar today, you have an expected return on what that dollar will give you tomorrow.

I am inspired by Leigh Drogen's "Law of Unbundling" (h/t to Bijan Salehizadeh for putting me onto this), which basically asserts that at least on the internet, companies that try to win by bundling everything (examples cited include AOL, Craigslist, Facebook) get disrupted as customers realize they have other options, and can get better results from a series of other sources.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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