Sentence examples for hollow assertions from inspiring English sources

There's the old queen who disguises his holiday unhappiness with alcohol, camp humor and hollow assertions that Christmas "is just another day".

First he said it was needed to revive the economy, a hollow assertion since most of the tax cut is to take effect years from now.

Stories about Tillerson's nomination in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and other publications have uncritically repeated ExxonMobil's hollow assertion that it endorses a carbon tax.

But the Kremlin has called such assertions hollow.

A spokesman for Philip Morris rejected the assertions as "entirely hollow".

In the case of Australia, however, such assertions ring particularly hollow – though that has not stopped Abbott's government from trafficking in them.

This time, the assertion is not so hollow.

But the assertion rings a little hollow when you are traveling in a style once reserved for royalty, in a personal train full of plush and brocade, crisscrossing Britain.

"And the problem has always been with that assertion it is completely hollow because the president himself in the Rose Garden said this was an act of terror and he talked about it within the context of Sept. 11, 2001".

Unless we can get past these self-serving assertions, religion's moral ballast is hollow at best.

Nationally, the unemployment rate remains near a three-decade low, the federal government still has a budget surplus and over the past three months consumer confidence has risen, according to the Conference Board, a business lobby.And yet Mr Harper's frequent assertion that "Canada is not the United States" and that the country's economy is "sound" rings hollow with voters.