Sentence examples for essentially assert from inspiring English sources

The Turnbulls essentially assert that Mr. Jones's behavior was out of their hands.

To invoke that clause, EchoStar would essentially assert that PanAmSat had been irretrievably damaged since the deal was signed late last year.

"Its pretty unusual" for a nongovernmental entity "to gather up records and then essentially assert control over them," Mr. Greene said.

A vaccine design defect claim essentially asserts that the manufacturer should have sold a different vaccine, which plaintiffs say would have been safer than the one used.

"Israel's Threats Against Arafat" (editorial, Sept. 18) essentially asserts that Israel must show more trust in the Palestinians in order to achieve progress in the conflict.

John McPhee, in his essay about writing and rewriting, essentially asserts that the only real writers are those who are so paralyzed by their internal critic that they can barely put two words together during the first draft ("Draft No. 4," April 29th).

Instead, the next day, Mr. Morgenthau's office received a call, followed by a stern three-page letter, from Michael A. Cardozo, the city's corporation counsel, fretting over the Lloyds settlement and essentially asserting that the city, not the state, was entitled by law to all the settlement money that was coming in the Credit Suisse case.

Mr. Gore has been casting the matter in broader terms because he is basing his case on the notion that more people intended to vote for him; Mr. Bush, however, put forth a more pragmatic argument: he is essentially asserting that since he won the initial count and recount of votes in Florida, he should be president.

Catalina Gómez Washington, D.C. John McPhee, in his essay about writing and rewriting, essentially asserts that the only real writers are those who are so paralyzed by their internal critic that they can barely put two words together during the first draft ("Draft No. 4," April 29th).

One is trivial, essentially asserting that a conditional frequency on lags (Reichenbach's term for lags is "phases") of a constant "variable" can always be replaced by a conditional frequency on no lag of that variable.

Those who think of underhand serves as a kind of legal cheating are essentially asserting that it really should be illegal.