Sentence examples for extraordinary assertion from inspiring English sources
Critics warn that the IMF faces irrelevance unless it reinvents itself radically.That seems an extraordinary assertion.
He said that he wanted to protect Generali's "national identity", an extraordinary assertion that he quickly came to regret.
Oddly, neither of them catches Laffer's extraordinary assertion that Estonia and Ireland are the leading examples of failed stimulus.
To run for the Senate after the carnage of the last eight years is nothing if not an extraordinary assertion of self.
He also made the extraordinary assertion that a restrictive immigration policy would help downtrodden illegal immigrants, such as the Morecambe Bay cockle-pickers.
"Executive privilege is an extraordinary assertion of power not to be lightly invoked," Justice Kennedy said, adding, "Once executive privilege is asserted, coequal branches of the government are set on a collision course".
And he did not back off his statement on Wednesday that the president has the authority to pursue military action inside the United States in extraordinary circumstances, an assertion that helped set off Mr. Paul's filibuster.
"The real thing that is a cause of concern is the accumulation of secret programs, the accumulation of extraordinary measures, the assertions validated by Congress of extraordinary executive authority," he said.
The appeals court judges called that assertion "an extraordinary intimidation," and said they felt compelled to respond after public officials stopped criticizing the merits of Judge Baer's ruling and began threatening to find ways to remove the 62-year-old judge from the bench.
Niebuhr assumes that the members of the gens (gentiles) were bound to assist their indigent fellows in bearing extraordinary burdens; but this assertion is founded on the interpretation given to the words τοὺς γένει προσήκοντας of Dionysius (II.10),º which have a simpler and more obvious meaning.
WASHINGTON — President Trump, ramping up his assertions of extraordinary powers, declared in a tweet on Monday that he had "the absolute right" to pardon himself for any crime.
