Sentence examples for flat assertions from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Contrary to Forbes' flat assertion that CNN has admitted this story was a phony, CNN has stridently not done that.
Here we find, for example, the criticism that natural rights doctrines are "so much flat assertion," and that utilitarian rights tend to be implausibly weak.
This is a quiet echo of Bentham's protest that the doctrine of natural rights "is from beginning to end so much flat assertion: it lays down as a fundamental and inviolable principle whatever is in dispute" (Bentham 1796, 66).
