Sentence examples for contradictory assertions from inspiring English sources

They have offered only confusing and often contradictory assertions in place of a coherent alternative.

Mr. Breuer's image was not helped by his contradictory assertions soon after announcing the merger on March 9.

According to Cambridge Assessment's research director, the QCA book on comparability was "high quality", but the report was a "highly defective" mixture of unreliable results and contradictory assertions.

The rhetorical gulf between the N.B.A. and its referees grew deeper Thursday, with dueling news releases, pointed accusations and contradictory assertions.

Yet the filmmaking panache and the movie's occasional emotional punch may be beside the point: a story this complex, with many contradictory assertions, cannot be adequately conveyed by cinematic technique alone.

For Jews, questioning not just God but the Old Testament itself — arguing with its contradictory assertions and laws — is an essential activity, central to the two-thousand-year-long project of interpretation.

Another is to claim that the contradictory assertion is ambiguous in some way, and that it is true on one disambiguation (or in one respect) and false in another.

We may reflect that Zhu's original notion of li as pattern involves restrictions that conflict with experience or expression, so he reconfigures it in light of Zhou Dunyi's Explanation of the Diagram of the Supreme Polarity and the Cheng Hao quotation.[25] To work as intended, li has to tolerate and express simultaneous assertions of "contradictory" complementary terms.

Their data, however, do not support their assertion and are contradictory to studies showing the rapid removal of DPX from formaldehyde-exposed human blood in culture (Schmid and Speit, 2007), and from the nasal respiratory mucosa of rats exposed to formaldehyde via inhalation (Heck and Casanova, 2004).

More significantly, it contained very serious deficiencies, including numerous inconsistent and contradictory statements as well as unsubstantiated assertions".

The parallel, if slightly contradictory, accusation, produced by Auden's assertions that poetry "makes nothing happen," was that, by insisting on poetry as a game, he reduced it to a plaything.