Sentence examples for counter assertions from inspiring English sources

The briefings in late September, including one for editors and reporters at The New York Times on Sept. 26, were designed to counter assertions by Republicans that the federal health marketplace would not work and was not ready.

The destruction of the field trial, and the reasons given for it, touched a nerve among scientists around the world, spurring them to counter assertions of the technology's health and environmental risks.

The generals' earnest, beseeching tone seemed highly incongruous from the leaders of a professional fighting force, and it may have been intended to counter assertions here that the violence reflected a new and deliberate assertion of the military's power as Egypt's promised transition to democracy drags on.

Sawyer was not here to counter assertions made this week by Viscount Monckton that wind power will do nothing to lower global temperatures: "A crazy peer from the UK is not really my debating partner," is all that he would say on that matter.

A24 Nuclear Plants Called Safe Seeking to counter assertions that the nation's nuclear plants are vulnerable to attacks like the one on the World Trade Center, 19 prominent experts have concluded that such plants could easily withstand the force of a jetliner crash.

The step-by-step approach was described as the latest American tactic to counter assertions by France, Russia and other Security Council members that they would oppose lifting sanctions without a broader role for the United Nations than the one envisioned by Washington.

Mr. Dudley appeared equally committed to emphasizing the fundamental soundness of the company and to countering assertions that cost-cutting had led to the well blowout.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday that a target destroyed by Israeli warplanes in the Syrian desert in 2007 was a covertly built nuclear reactor, countering assertions by Syria.

His two appearances here were focused primarily on countering assertions by Democrats that he had exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and underestimated the difficulties the United Stated would face after a war in Iraq.

That change "makes sense," said Mr. Kerrey, a war hero who has countered assertions by Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf that the Democrats have been playing games in the counting of military absentee ballots from overseas.

Mr. Greenberg countered assertions by the defense that Mr. Abdul-Latif was a passive contributor to the plot, saying that the defendant had been eager to take possession of machine guns and did not back out of the plan when he had opportunities to do so.