Sentence examples for defend the assertion from inspiring English sources
A consequence of this is that the speaker is obliged to to defend the assertion if challenged (2004: 70).
He proposes three similar alternatives, which share the idea that when a speaker is challenged with respect to an assertion he has made, he must either defend the assertion or else retract it (Rescorla 2009 103 55).
He said he was prepared to defend the film's assertions in court, and he cheerfully dismissed accusations that he was producing Soviet-style propaganda.
One may convince himself this is indeed correct by considering the following: in a dialectical situation, the only way to attack the assertion ¬A is to assert A, and be prepared to defend this assertion.
Often, the permission to pollute is defended by the assertion that it will create jobs, or that the near-term gain of a new energy source overshadows the need to consider environmental degradation and its harmful impacts.
It is controversial to say that there are qualia in the narrow sense, though, and those who have asserted their existence have therefore provided arguments and thought-experiments to defend this assertion (see Block (1997), Peacocke (1983 Chapter 1), Shoemaker (1990)).
But NOAA may have to defend this assertion in international courts.
The resulting report disputed Dr. Schwartz's assertions and has been used to defend the missile defense program on Capitol Hill.
Soldier ants defend the nest.
This sparked more debate about crowd size and invited coverage that was unflattering to Trump, but it also indicated just how insistent this administration is going to be when it comes to defending the president's assertions.
