Sentence examples for come across statements from inspiring English sources

Historians who come across statements asserting the occurrence of miracles should ask themselves whether an inductive generalisation based on their own experience of reality would provide probabilistic evidence for the occurrence of miraculous events.

I try not to listen to Donald Trump supporters because they make me lose faith in the world, but when I do come across statements from them explaining why they support Trump they almost always remark that he is honest.

These tips hold true if you are reading a text and come across statements like these examples.

"Her statements come across as patronizing, and hark back to an old racist tradition where we all look the same".

He says everything with such conviction that even the most absurd statements come across as eternal truths.

Kresge even made a point of noting, in the introduction to an interview he had done with Weinstein, "He speaks in the easy manner of a seasoned grunt, and it's not affectation, it's genuine affection for the service members he seeks to serve now" and "If his statements come across as vituperative or pugilistic, one only has to look at what is at stake to understand why".

According to Hume, a historian who comes across statements which are, in the eyes of the historians, false, should simply discard them.

Time and time again one comes across statements that look, and sound good - these pieces were originally delivered as lectures - but which just don't stand up to analysis".

[16] One routinely comes across statements like these: "We have lost our fear but we need to know where to go with our new-found courage" (See "Iranian regime ships in support for anniversary celebrations," The Times, February 12 , 2010).

When reading a recent "Letter from Moscow" by Remnick in the New Yorker, I was surprised by how many times I came across statements that, with just a tiny bit of tweaking, could have been lifted from one of the posts that Evan Osnos has done for that same publication's "Letter from China" blog.

Thus, your thesis statement should provoke feedback and come across as challenging.