Sentence examples for bluntly asserting from inspiring English sources

China may prefer almost anyone to President Lee, who has riled them by bluntly asserting that Taiwan is sovereign and equal and that the two sides should talk on a "state to state" basis.

However, bluntly asserting that poverty is the singular cause of the prostitution trade fails to acknowledge that men's poverty has not begot a global demand from women to pay them for sex acts, that without men's demand there would be no trade at all, or the highly specific abuses that so commonly characterise women's entry into it.

Sudul puts it more bluntly asserting, "Unprotected sex equals Russian Roulette".

At one point Nascimento bluntly asserts, "In Brazil elections are businesses".

But for his part Mr. Bloomberg bluntly asserted that Mr. Thompson picked money managers because they supported his campaign.

"Basically it's S-and-M porn," Vanda bluntly asserts about the script, riling the self-important Thomas, who corrects her with a half-hidden snarl.

At that time, David J. Sheehan, the trustee's lawyer, bluntly asserted that Mr. Madoff "would not have been able to commit this massive Ponzi scheme without this bank".

While emphasizing the need for due process, she bluntly asserts, in a draft of her speech: "We recognize, however, that too often due process can become a glacial process.

Tom Regan, author of "The Case for Animal Rights," bluntly asserts that because "species are not individuals... the rights view does not recognize the moral rights of species to anything, including survival".

Hell may be other people, as Sartre bluntly asserted in "No Exit," but mired in my solitary darkness, I took great comfort in the ideal of a literary community -- a fellowship of like-minded neurasthenic souls -- that Bloomsbury represented.

In 1980, Thaler published a paper entitled "Toward a Positive Theory of Consumer Choice,," in which he bluntly asserted, "This paper argues that in certain well defined situations, many consumers act in ways that are inconsistent with economic theory".