Sentence examples for instead of asserting from inspiring English sources

Instead of asserting Brazil's contractual rights, he held a meeting not just with the Bolivian leader and Argentina's president, Néstor Kirchner, but also with Mr Chávez on May 4th.

To their discredit, their response was to make the same old arguments, while adding weasel words to cover themselves: instead of asserting outright that spending cuts are expansionary, the report says that confidence effects of austerity "can boost G.D.P. growth".

The win was a tribute to a refreshing app that celebrates the best of what the subway has to offer, instead of asserting something that needs to be fixed.

It restricts that principle, however, in two ways: (1) Instead of asserting the existence of sets unconditionally, it can be applied only in conjunction with preexisting sets, and (2) only "definite" formulas may be used.

Why do we need to diminish the greatness of someone who owns up to his society's errors instead of asserting its superiority, and who accomplishes things with patient prodding instead of with bluster and force?

The attitudes of the pope and bishops toward the death penalty and many social issues put them so far to the left of the former senator's beliefs that I'm amazed that instead of asserting his full adherence to Catholic teachings, the article did not focus on his amazingly selective (and sexually focused) moral outrage.

Instead of America asserting itself abroad, this "abroad" has asserted itself through Katya upon an American.

Error and uncertainty have two possible sources according to Bolzano: either the premises that one presupposes are uncertain (or even false), or one has used a mere probability inference (WL III, 265 f ., i.e., an inference whose conclusion asserts the truth of a proposition s itself instead of merely asserting the truth of the proposition [s is probable] (WL II 510).

Thus, instead of merely asserting membership of group LFQSCWFLJHTTHZ-UHFFFAOYSA-NFGXYZ in the ethanol molecule (where to save space, XYZ is the appropriate hash), it would be typed to the FGXXX functional group.

To avoid this kind of misleading inference, the constituent parts of a nucleotide in ChEBI are now represented using has_functional_parent assertions instead of explicitly asserted is_a relationships.

In fact, it seemed backwards to write off style, beauty and fashion as automatically conformist and limiting, instead of as a means of asserting artistic expression.