Sentence examples for historical assertion from inspiring English sources

No scientific or historical assertion goes undisputed by the other side.

Today, Adobe will disable new installs of Flash on Android, effectively cutting it off from the future of the mobile web -- despite the company's historical assertion that Flash would enable the "full web experience" on mobile devices.

Beyond that, the perception that Mr. Bush now has a friend in the Senate could complicate his dealings with the new Congress because of the historical assertion of independence by members of the Senate.

After his initial general discussion of rebellion against slavery and oppression, in the historical and largest section of the book he treats actual historical assertions of human dignity as little more than efforts to overthrow God.

Among these are the claim that all understanding is historical, the assertion that there are biological laws but they are necessary truths, the view that the fundamental theory in biology is a narrative, and the suggestion that biology adverts to ungrounded probabilistic propensities of the sort to be met with elsewhere only in quantum mechanics.

These characteristics contain both "facts" (matters of some historical record) and assertions, chiefly assertions made within saga narratives.

In Japan, there has been a historical lack of rights assertion and of the employment of legal documents [ 23, 24].

In a phone interview, Mr. Trump called himself a "a big history fan" but deflected, played down and then simply disputed the local historians' assertions of historical fact.

We are three generations, maybe more, into an era in which the once-cheeky assertions of historical revisionism — Columbus didn't discover America, Europeans invented scalping, the founding fathers were real estate sharpies — have become utterly conventional, the refuge of grad-school plodders and boomer journalists alike.

Mr. Savage — who holds a master's degree from Yale Law School — not only situates moves made by the current administration in historical perspective with earlier assertions of unilateral presidential power (made by the likes of Harry S. Truman and Nixon), but also shrewdly assesses those moves in terms of mainstream constitutional scholarship.

Phylogeny, Ecology and Behavior (Brooks and McLennan 1991) documented the pervasive phylogenetic influences on all levels of ecology and behavior, stimulating a decade of research substantiating Brooks and Wiley's assertions about historical ecology (Brooks and McLennan 2002).