Sentence examples for for an assertion from inspiring English sources

In times of domestic austerity, it is tempting to look abroad for an assertion of our continued relevance.

The mere fact that they can "foresee" that the article will be circulated and have an effect in California is not sufficient for an assertion of jurisdiction.

The court agreed that neither petitioner's contacts with California would be sufficient for an assertion of jurisdiction on a cause of action unrelated to those contacts.

MICHAEL P. LUNDEN The Perennial Best Man Michael P. Lunden's friends always said he was worth waiting for, an assertion he tested frequently.

It was an inopportune moment for an assertion of American leadership, and when it came to the debt crisis Clinton could muster little more than a wispy guarantee that American politicians "understand" what they're doing.

He acknowledged that he had no direct evidence to support this allegation, nor for an assertion he made recently in Parliament that Gazprom had spent 82 million euros, or about $100 million, to fund anti-fracking activities across Europe.

Most of the policies he lists at the end of his article are supported by the Greens, and his call for a assertion of the public good accords with the Green party slogan "for the common good".

The statistical evidence for such an assertion is superficially flimsy.

Libya has repeatedly denied accusations that it is making chemical weapons and has insisted that the Rabta plant is for pharmaceuticals - an assertion widely dismissed in the West.

Asked whether he too had worked for MI6 – an assertion he had previously denied – Stewart himself came up with a convoluted form of words.

No scruples were felt about ascribing an objective meaning to such statements as "three empirically given bodies (practically infinitely small) lie on one straight line," without demanding a physical definition for such an assertion.