Sentence examples for central assertion from inspiring English sources

Democrats accused him of "flip-flopping" on a central assertion of his candidacy.

Rather, the central assertion by the plaintiffs is that the Obama Administration violated the law itself.

That practice arises, he said, when an anonymous source is the basis for an article's premise or a central assertion.

Historians not connected to the Kerry campaign dispute the central assertion of the film, that Mr. Kerry was responsible for prolonging the war and the prisoners' torture.

One official close to the report challenged a central assertion of the prime minister that divisions within regions themselves were wider than any north-south split.

It couches its arguments heavily on the US Constitution, as well as ideas of freedom and the central assertion that owning guns makes people safer, propagated by its accompanying "education programmes" and Refuse To Be A Victim seminars.

Once Murray's fellow social scientists finished peer-­reviewing his data, some accused him of massaging his results to produce the book's central assertions — that I. Q

One of the report's central assertions is that deterring terrorism has become vital to protecting the economy, and that corporate leaders should therefore join government in defending major industries like energy, pharmaceuticals, finance and transportation.

On Thursday, a unanimous Senate Ethics Committee — in a rare public report that corroborated virtually all of Mr. Hampton's central assertions — said it found compelling evidence that Mr. Ensign had not only broken the law, but that he could have been expelled from the Senate had he not made the decision last month to quit first.

Lawyers for three construction supervisors charged in the deaths of two firefighters at the former Deutsche Bank tower challenged on Tuesday one of the central assertions made by prosecutors: that the removal of a section of standpipe in the basement had prevented the firefighters from obtaining water that could have saved their lives.

In recent months, Mr. Powell has spoken publicly of his frustration that some of the central assertions he made in that speech, particularly claims that Iraq possessed illicit weapons, have not been borne out by the facts, despite assurances from Mr. Tenet and the C.I.A. that they were based on solid intelligence.