Sentence examples for challenge assertions from inspiring English sources

Two weeks after Palin's Facebook post, the White House established a "Reality Check" blog on which officials challenge assertions that they consider false.

Amaney A. Jamal, associate professor of politics at Princeton and a consultant for Pew on global Islam, said that the report could challenge assertions by some scholars and far-right political parties about future demographic domination by Muslims.

He did not specifically say whether President Obama was told of these spying efforts, but he appeared to challenge assertions in recent days that the White House had been in the dark about some of the agency's practices.

Why? "You and your interviewer have seriously betrayed your obligation to report impartially and to challenge assertions that are unsustainable" Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Sarah Colborne said: "Today presenters are known for their ferocious questioning of government ministers, their constant interruptions, their sharp challenges and refusal to brook any nonsense.

The White House and progressive activists should aggressively challenge assertions about the disasters that will befall us if government protects consumers, workers, seniors, children, the disabled and the environment.

Our results challenge assertions, developed primarily from studies of non-charadriiform birds, that T4 is as biologically active as T3 in birds (McNabb, 2007).

Some environmental groups challenged assertions in the document.

Mr. Hussain, battered by days of cross-examination, seemed to find his nerve again, calmly challenging assertions by Mr. Briccetti.

Mr. Brodsky also challenged assertions by the defense in connection to the sale of shares in Goldman Sachs.

Kennedy's most convincing points were on the economics of nuclear energy (an area the film avoids tackling), while Stone effectively challenged assertions about health risks.

The report, compiled by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, and released Wednesday, challenges assertions by the Japanese government that whaling is a tradition with wide support among Japanese consumers.