Sentence examples for evidence-free assertion from inspiring English sources

Rehm had pressed her about Trump's recent evidence-free assertion on Twitter that he, not Hillary Clinton, would have won the popular vote if millions of immigrants had not voted illegally.

For example, Trump's recent evidence-free assertion that "thousands" of Muslim Americans in New Jersey celebrated the fall of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 parallels stories that have appeared in various forms in chain emails and elsewhere on the Web for years.

A.R., your replies to T.P.R. are nothing but name-calling and evidence-free assertions.

Gary Naylor writes: "More ex-footballer pundits on the radio last night making evidence-free assertions unchallenged by the presenters or their ex-footballer mates with microphones.

On the other hand, there are no valid arguments to support the recent trend toward seven-figure salaries for high-ranking university administrators, unless one considers evidence-free assertions about "the market" to be intellectually rigorous.

The Republican bill, and the GOP's evidence-free assertions about its likely budgetary effects, have all but ensured a future in which politicians do not feel obligated to even engage in the pretense of fiscal responsibility.

Evidence-free assertions of threats to life and liberty began to flourish.

The White House attack on its efficacy follows similar evidence-free assertions ― that millions voted illegally in the November elections, for example, or that Obama "wire tapped" Trump at his midtown Manhattan headquarters.

Yet there is no evidence presented by Republicans, aside from the strident, source-free assertions of former Vice President Cheney, desperate to salvage what's left of his reputation, that the torture program led to the capture of bin Laden.

Another howler passed my way the other day: "to evidence" as in "to evidence the assertion".

It is possible to create new terms from cross products of evidence types and assertion types, using the used_in relation to connect evidence to assertion method.