Sentence examples for first asserting that from inspiring English sources

(This is after first asserting that his father lacked ego).

Ms. Kulikova's father turned the agent down at first, asserting that his daughter was cut out for better things than playing glorified clothes dummy.

After first asserting that the Gottis were victims of a vendetta by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and by federal prosecutors, Bruce Cutler, their lawyer, said that the men would "be together in spirit" on Father's Day.

Maitra and Weatherson claim that there need be nothing wrong with first asserting that $p$, and later, in response to a question, deny that one knows that $p$, but without retracting the assertion.

The critique of Simonides' poem mentioned above suggests that eliciting a contradiction from one's opponent's statements was one such strategy, since what Protagoras actually does is to seek to show that Simonides contradicts himself in first asserting that it is hard to become good and then in finding fault with Pittacus, one of the so-called 'Seven Sages', for saying that it hard to be good.

It is Schwarz who, having discovered the Washington photo album, first asserted that Hitler had this Cranach in his apartment.

Suspicions were heightened when the Lujiang government first asserted that the images had been altered with Photoshop, then said the people in them were not county officials, period.

In May, when Douglas R. Forrester first asserted that his prescription drug insurance company was worth more than $100 million, New Jersey's Republican primary for the Senate quickly changed from a competitive race into a victory lap for Mr. Forrester.

In the same long-gone era, however, Shawn accepted "ram it" in a piece by Trillin about Lester Maddox, the governor of Georgia, who said publicly that "the federal government could take its education money and 'ram it.' " Shawn at first asserted that no such ramming was going to occur in The New Yorker.

Michigan governor Rick Snyder said the revelation that a spate of children are experiencing elevated blood-lead levels had become a "public safety issue", weeks after independent experts first asserted that Flint's temporary water source had produced a spike in lead across the city of 100,000.

Proof We first assert that F : P ¯ c → P ¯ c.