Sentence examples for capable of being asserted from inspiring English sources

And questions or hypotheses framed by historians, without which archives would remain mute, lead them to detect "facts, capable of being asserted in singular, discrete propositions, most often having to do with the mentioning of dates, places, proper names, verbs that name an action or state" (Memory, History, Forgetting, 178).

"The elements of [the bill] are capable of being asserted by any future legislature -- or this one, as indeed there is still time left".

Instead, they assert that only particular kinds of groups are capable of acting and intending collectively and that only particular kinds of groups are capable of being collectively responsible for harm.

We are capable of being that".

Europe will be able to confront the problems linked to immigration "only if it is capable of clearly asserting its own cultural identity", he added.

It's hard to believe that computers and other inanimate objects are capable of asserting themselves.

In short, by affirming that women preachers can be in the light, Fell implicitly affirms that natural women are capable of asserting their intellect and will in order to attain salvation, even if that means defying their fathers, husbands, or other male spiritual guides.

This meant that they were "capable of asserting themselves among the ship-owners and county governors in the board" of the Norwegian Peace Association.

"It is not evidence capable of supporting or asserting that he has been a sexual predator for 40 years".

In her world, women are not human beings capable of asserting their own preferences or declining to conform to the preferences of others.

Ms. Danes, so persuasive as both the snarling, frightened flower girl and the stuffed gentlewoman, seems to stiffen up as she tries to negotiate Eliza's final transformation into a woman capable of asserting her right to be treated with respect, if not affection.