Sentence examples for hardly assert from inspiring English sources

"Clearly this distorted Test results significantly and so I would hardly assert that England really had the No1 team at that time.

Amelia can hardly assert her authority to get Samuel to take sedatives: "I am the parent and you are the child, so take the pill!" In another scene, Samuel sleepwalks over to Amelia and tells her to "wake up".

He, too, felt that, "the dissolution of modern thought has not been able to offer anything of real content out of its own origin, because the simplicity of depth does not exist in any new shape, and could hardly assert its new shape if it were to come into being, without having preserved the former content" of the Axial Age awakenings.

He just asserts them, repeatedly.

Consistent evidence for the often cited bilateral relationship could hardly be asserted.

But that doesn't change the fact that men, and whites, are born with tremendous advantages, and hardly need collective action to assert their rights.

Furthermore, scholars have pointed out that if Oleg succeeded Rurik in 879 (as the East Slavic chronicles assert), he could hardly have been active almost 70 years later, unless he had a life-span otherwise unheard of in medieval annals.

Simply on the technical merits of the case, the intelligence community's performance, while far from superb, was hardly as bad as the senators assert.

If perceived control underpins intrinsic motivation, as the psychologists assert, then it is hardly surprising that economists are finding that locus of control predicts a vast array of economic and social outcomes.

He thinks he has to assert himself he understands nothing about the music, he can hardly read music (yes, I know, there are notable exceptions)—and rages that much more wildly onstage.

It was hardly an ideal start for the Premier League visitors, who struggled to assert their authority on their workmanlike hosts.