Sentence examples for doubtful assertion from inspiring English sources

That has been a doubtful assertion ever since the cold war – even more so after Libya.

A particularly doubtful assertion made by Enron Online was the so-called notional revenue it reported, Mr. McCullough said.

The general election debate over the NHS has already become an exchange of insults, doubtful assertions and unreliable statistics of the kind voters find so unedifying.

That assertion seems doubtful in the camps, where elderly people abound and the idea of Bhutan as home seems deep-held.

The judge said he was "doubtful" about the claimants' assertion that they could easily be reintegrated into the play after limited rehearsals.

This assertion seems doubtful, given that piracy was clearly one of the original violations of the "Law of Nations" contemplated by the First Congress when it passed the Alien Tort Statute as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789.

The encyclical "can be difficult to read," says one commentator; it is marred by "irritating fits and starts, assertions, qualifications, doubtful formulas and doubling back," says another.

Was it the number of bodies, Texas winning, or the assertion, which seemed more doubtful as the debate proceeded, that we live in "modern times"?

Gone, too, was its assertion that "it is doubtful any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

Contrary to the assertion in your Sept. 29 editorial about Myanmar, it is highly doubtful that China, India and Russia have the means to stop the junta from murdering its citizens.

But Parag Khanna's assertion that these zones will create prosperity while bypassing national governments is doubtful.