Sentence examples for flat assertion from inspiring English sources

The motion adds: "Given defendant's flat assertion of his right to silence, the later questioning of him is improper".

"Sea-level performance is not increased by training at altitudes," he writes -- a flat assertion that would be countered by many scientists and marathoners.

But the mayor badly undercuts his credibility through false equivalency — his flat assertion that the only other thing standing between this city and violent crime are critics who have every right to demand that policing abides by the Constitution.

But just as surely there are times when the leak contains a flat assertion of fact -- for example, that Monica S. Lewinsky owns a dress stained with Mr. Clinton's DNA -- which is plainly and undeniably false.

Mr. Holder's comments appeared to be an effort to clarify the policy after some news reports last month interpreted his answer to a reporter's question to be a flat assertion that all raids on marijuana growers would cease.

I disagree with his interpretation of the 2-degree warming threshold as scientifically — rather than politically — established and his flat assertion that there's no path to climate stability without a peak in global emissions of greenhouse gases within the next 10 years.

The neutralism ideal is addressed by retaining the identity of questioner and avoiding flat assertions except as prefaces to a question or as attributed to a third party.

Kurt Eichenwald, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a former reporter for The New York Times, makes his methodical case against the Bush administration with detailed examples rather than flat assertions.

But their flat assertions that it was merely an accident have only encouraged theorists, who are still busily inventing wacky stories.

That document included flat assertions that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons and was reconstituting its nuclear program, statements that the Senate committee called unfounded and unreasonable.

The reason that many of their voters are responding is because this is what's been fed through the messages they've been sending for a long time: that you just make flat assertions that don't comport with the facts; … that compromise is a betrayal; that the other side isn't simply wrong … but the other side is destroying the country or treasonous.