Sentence examples for competing assertions from inspiring English sources

The competing assertions of Colonel Corpus and his opponents in the Senate that they are protecting the institutions of democracy ring hollow in the ears of ordinary folk.

The Senkakus are also claimed by Taiwan, but it is the competing assertions of sovereignty by Japan and China that have come to the fore in a summer of territorial tensions in east Asia.

In doing so, the campaign has leveled some charges that are more specific than the known facts warrant and others that are most likely wrong — though Mr. Romney's decision not to provide more detailed explanations of his Medicare and tax proposals has made it difficult to provide a fuller evaluation of some of the competing assertions.

The existing literature provides two sets of competing assertions regarding how macro-level structural forces drove the distribution of different types of resources possessed by individual job seekers.

I don't argue with that last assertion: the trouble is, Boris Johnson is not competing for a trophy in the British Press Awards, but to lead the most diverse city on the planet.

Six nations maintain competing claims to island groups in the South China Sea; the most expansive assertions of sovereignty are China's.

Republicans and some moderate Democrats say that competing private plans could save money for Medicare, but other Democrats say that assertion is unproved.

In Fishean pomo, all we have are competing claims, whether the issue is the numerical value of pi or the assertion that the Mossad destroyed the World Trade Center.

The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? (2006) compares competing theories that profess to explain the universe's suitability for life, including the assertion that the universe is one of many, each operating by different laws.

Until a more inclusive and diverse representation of players competing in more challenging environments and extended and/or repeated same-day play is available, any assertion that tennis players, even when competing in extreme heat, are not at risk for incurring exertional heat illness related to excessive thermal strain should be questioned.

Their performances in the final group match had added weight to Powell's assertion that she had a squad - not just a first XI - capable of competing with the best.