Sentence examples for honest assertion from inspiring English sources

Many delegates to the church's convention here characterized the action not as an overturning of the moratorium, but as simply an honest assertion of "who we are".

Of course not; those were bold and honest assertions, the kind we forlornly expect our leaders to make, all the more bracing for the fact we hear them so rarely.

Since Ryan's charge so manifestly contradicts his own beliefs, it is clear that the campaign assumes the thesis for which I have been arguing — that Americans no longer expect or care about candidates making honest assertions in the public sphere.

"The concept that an academy award is 'an honest signal' is a startlingly unfounded assertion," says Mike Wade of the Indiana University, Bloomington.

Neither assertion is true.

It has nothing to do with self-identifying victimhood (reactionary assertions that Goodes is somehow responsible for the racism he has inspired are akin to saying victims of certain types of assault have themselves to blame) and everything to do with the proud assertion of a desire for honest conciliation.

A government of another kind might not see its Attorney General's vehement assertions of a thorough and honest investigation into the case of the forty-three so quickly subjected to derision.

He added that he was not impressed by Mr. Bradley's assertion that Mr. Gore is not honest.

Neither assertion is quite true.

Ms. Lee's and Mr. Casey's accounts are expected to figure in prosecutors' assertion that Mr. Kerik engaged in "theft of honest services," a charge that essentially accuses a government employee of defrauding the public by depriving it of his honest service as an official.

Assertions to the contrary are less than honest.