Sentence examples for in a position to assert from inspiring English sources

Instead, one is indicating that one is in a position to assert that such and such is the case (one has the proper credentials and reasons) in circumstances where it is necessary to resolve a doubt.

When these conditions are satisfied when one is, in fact, in a position to assert that such and such is the case one can correctly be said to know.

These forces were in a position to assert themselves until the spring of 2002, during the first year and a half of the current Palestinian uprising, when Israeli troops were making only periodic forays into Palestinian areas.

He suggested that other neighbors in the region would intervene on behalf of Iraqi factions: The Iranians don't want Sunni domination, therefore they will make sure that the Shia are in a position to assert their preëminence, if not their domination.

The Republican lawmakers put themselves in a position to assert such control by spending six years changing election laws in ways that benefited themselves: for example, by redrawing legislative districts to give themselves permanent majorities, despite being the minority party in terms of voter registration in the state.

Furthermore, you are not in a position to assert yourself or your views because in doing so, you'd become "unbearable" or "hard to work with".

Mr Bolton is now our nation's chief UN envoy without the senate's endorsement and is in a weakened position to assert US interests.

Rather, Y objects on the grounds that X is not in an epistemic position to assert the binary disjunction.

Wouldn't those communities now be much better off and in a much stronger position to assert their rights vis-à-vis Israel?

To recover domains that use their names, he said, "they would have the hurdle of showing they make commercial use of their name, and that might be a politically questionable position to assert in court".

The journalist who later became Morgan's successor said that he agreed with a question from David Barr, junior counsel for the inquiry, that he was not "in a position to positively assert one way or the other" what the ultimate source of that news story was.