Sentence examples for factual assertions from inspiring English sources

Or, to put it more briefly, out of four factual assertions in the UKIP press release, four are incorrect.

ACCURACY The ad has none of the squishy factual assertions or questionable statistics that cause opponents to cry foul.

Matthew A. Snyder, or meant to convey factual assertions about him, but were instead protected commentary on matters of public concern.

That case was cinched this weekend by the author's admission that the premise of the article – and many incidental factual assertions – was wrong.

The Chinese press, including the Liberation Army Daily, did not specifically rebut many factual assertions, but said American military analysts misunderstood Chinese intentions.

Trials do have some things to recommend them, including the possibility of subjecting witnesses' factual assertions to cross-examination, which the legal scholar John Henry Wigmore once called "the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth".

Numerous readers, however -- now including Byron Calame, the newspaper's public editor, who also scrutinized the tape -- read the comment as a factual assertion.

"When I make a speech now, it is broadcast around the world in an instant, and there are entire blogs devoted to picking apart every factual assertion that is being made, and people expect a level of accuracy and understanding that wouldn't have been the case in 1961 or '62".

What really bothers me is the justification for the initial refusal to publish a correction: "The editors understood the 'nudge' comment as the television critic's figurative reference to Mr. Rivera's flamboyant intervention" and "numerous readers read the comment as a factual assertion".

By contrast, the novel's denouement, in which Tealing tracks down Parroulet in Australia, is aimed at making a factual assertion: that Tony Gauci's testimony in the trial was not only unreliable, it was the result of bribery and therefore inadmissible.

Ipso said that while the article itself did not breach the code, the headline did as it was "a factual assertion that the Queen had expressed a position in the referendum debate, and there was nothing in the headline, or the manner in which it was presented on the newspaper's front page, to suggest that this was conjecture, hyperbole, or was not to be read literally".