Sentence examples for incapable of asserting from inspiring English sources

Just as obnoxious as the fraud of liberty was the fraud of Christian piety, a finger-jabbing rectitude incapable of asserting a policy without invoking the Deity as a co-sponsor.

Shortly after losing his seat as MP for Govan in 1992, the SNP's former deputy leader Jim Sillars bitterly applauded McIlvanney's image as a "brilliant description of the country", which in his view seemed incapable of asserting its own identity.

The former Mr. Universe has shrunk greatly in political stature, now that he has become ineligible for re-election (thanks to term limits), unpopular (a 33percentt approval rating) and incapable of asserting his will over an unyielding Legislature and ornery electorate.

Fighting in the west and protests in the east today threatened the return of thousands of Afghan refugees from Iran and Pakistan as the American-backed government here showed further signs that it was incapable of asserting its control over large swaths of the country.

Jodi Kantor correctly notes that postage-stamp-sized television screens are incapable of displaying much detail, then asserts that "what the tiny new televisions lose in spectacle, they make up in intimacy" ["The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium," Oct. 30].

Despite voluminous reports by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies, Sessions asserted that the Justice Department remains incapable of addressing the challenge.

Critics such as Habermas assert that postmodernist anti-universalism is incapable of providing grounds for moral or political judgment much less comprehensive programs for social reform.

They also carried out an inquiry into the Indian question at which all the encomenderos asserted that the Indians were quite incapable of living freely without their supervision.

The United States has long asserted that U.S. missile defenses are incapable of halting a large-scale attack by a major nuclear power, like Russia or China, due in part to the limited number of U.S. missile interceptors.

Carole Pateman's 1976 classic Participation and Democratic Theory explores the history of this theory; according to Pateman, democratic theories of the early 20th century abandoned a participatory theory because the sociological evidence concerning engagement and apathy led them to assert that most people are constitutionally incapable of, or simply uninterested in, participating.

The family's lawyers asserted Tuesday that the Miami Beach Police Department was incapable of investigating itself.