Sentence examples for defensive assertions from inspiring English sources

In an age of mandatory multi-culturalism and groupthink --where well-intentioned but stale pieties stand in for close scrutiny on the left, and shrill but defensive assertions parade as rigorous criticism on the right -- it is altogether beneficial to have a writer such as V.S. Naipaul in our midst.

But it was hard to tell what it was all building up to, other than a defensive assertion of his wife's authenticity.

In his opinion, Justice Alito denied going beyond the confines of the question the parties brought to the court, but Justice Sonia Sotomayor shredded his defensive assertion in a separate opinion.

By Thursday, however, Tuck had backed off that assertion and the defensive coordinator Perry Fewell said it would be "a bonus" if Tuck played.

While there are a variety of intermediary business models—such as patent assertion entities and defensive aggregators each facilitates a variant of a similar licensing transaction, connecting a set of patents held by a patent owner with a product or service offered by a prospective licensee.

Richard Polwhele targeted her in particular in his anonymous long poem The Unsex'd Females (1798), a defensive reaction to women's literary self-assertion: Hannah More is Christ to Wollstonecraft's Satan.

We also used the following defensive programming techniques [ 16]: (i) we used assertions; (ii) we checked the values of input from external sources; (iii) we handled exceptions gracefully; (iv) we implemented subroutines with low coupling to try to contain the damage caused by errors; and (v) we checked function return values.

But the commentary, written by Igor Belyayev, Pravda's Middle East specialist, made no direct comment on the Israeli assertion that Soviet pilots were flying defensive opera tional missions in Egypt.

This clause requires Twitter to seek approval of the inventor for any assertion that is not for a defensive purpose.

Despite such assertions, the companies are acting mostly for defensive reasons.

His remarks followed a wave of skepticism about repeated US assertions that Isis fighters are on the defensive.