Sentence examples for factual contention from inspiring English sources

And think again: "President Bush is a bozo" actually is a fact, or a factual contention, once we agree on a definition of "bozo," which isn't hard if we are honest.

Hence, in ASARCO, although we rejected the dissent's factual contention that the stock investments there constituted "interim uses of idle funds 'accumulated for the future operation of the taxpayer's business operation,' " we did not dispute the suggestion that had that been so the income would have been apportionable.

Thus, the issue at the trial on remand is framed by those opposing factual contentions.

Petitioner's counsel supported his factual contentions in regard to these various motions by his personal affidavits as well as by photostats of stories appearing in local newspapers and national magazines.

In contrast to the ordinary civil case, which typically is judged by a "preponderance of the evidence" standard, we thought a diversion of interstate water should be allowed only if Colorado could place in the ultimate factfinder an abiding conviction that the truth of its factual contentions are "highly probable". See C. McCormick, Law of Evidence § 320, p. 679 (1954).

Then there are the simple factual errors, such as Biskind's contention that Weinstein, Harvey Scissorhandsslashedshed "Cinema Paradiso" down from two and a half hours to two.

The contention is wholly factual, and a thorough study of the record discloses that petitioners were accorded that right.

Many of the reviews in major newspapers have accepted as having some factual basis the film's main contention, that the government illegally extracts income taxes, even though every court that has ever ruled on these issues has upheld the constitutionality of the income tax.

Darius Charney, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the suit against the city, said the judge's ruling included factual findings in favor of its contention that police department policy -- not the actions of a few rogue officers -- had led to widespread illegal searches.

To determine the merit of these contentions we must review the factual situation.

Are his contentions (about his former occupation and his other daughter) factual?