Sentence examples for by the assertions of from inspiring English sources

Local black leaders are especially galled by the assertions of slaves' loyalty.

And he refuses to be limited by disciplinary boundaries or by the assertions of experts in other fields.

I was therefore surprised by the assertions of American and Israeli officials I interviewed while researching a recent article on the prospect of an Israeli attack against Iran.

In civil proceedings in the common-law countries, evidence is both ascertained and simultaneously restricted by the assertions of the parties.

In the five years I have spent reading the record about Mohamedou Ould Slahi's case, I have not been persuaded by my government's vague and shifting explanations for why he is in Guantánamo, or by the assertions of those who defend his now 13-year detention by saying he is almost certainly, or possibly, a this or a that.

Defense Minister Bill Graham said he was frustrated by the assertions of United States officials, including the former secretary of state, Colin L. Powell, that someone in Canada had "given them the go-ahead" to deport Maher Arar, the Syrian-born Canadian detained in New York in 2002 and sent to Syria for 10 months, where, he said, he was tortured.

Some of them have created their dystopias by turning the assertions of "Looking Backward" inside out.

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, presaged the next Congressional battle by rejecting the assertions of his Republican colleagues that the next phase would again exclude revenue increases, which the Democrats failed to include in the first round.

By contrast, when the assertions of an activist take a company by complete surprise, by the time an unprepared company is able to formulate its response, the activist has already dug in for a public fight.

Cornell University was followed by the assertion of jurisdiction over nonprofit, private secondary schools.

Gradually, the authority of a wrathful God is undermined by the assertion of human accountability.