Sentence examples for made an assertion from inspiring English sources

Somewhere between the appetizer and dessert, Neufeld made an assertion: humans are the only creatures with hair rather than fur.

Hasan repeatedly asked the judge to allow him to explain why Poppe's claim was wrong, saying: "Your honor, Col Poppe has made an assertion that is inaccurate.

A column here a couple of weeks ago on delays and various proposals to fix the system made an assertion that needs clarification, according to Dorothy Robyn, a White House special assistant who specializes in aviation issues.

Here I have made an assertion but have not engaged in a conversation.

When the administration made an assertion, a lot of people wrote it down and printed it and we looked at it and said "that doesn't make any sense.

Rather, my objections arose out of the assertion El Rhazoui implicitly made, an assertion that I was not deserving of the same right to freedom of expression that she herself was exercising.

According to Moore, if I make an assertion, what I assert is nothing about my ideas or my mental states, but a certain "connexion of concepts".

Under normal conditions, a speaker can be justified in making an assertion even though what she asserts is false.

Because of this, Kowalski argues, abandoning conventional mined products isn't necessarily a perfect solution: "I would think long and hard before making an assertion that [switching to man-made diamonds] is necessarily ethically superior," he says.

In his various essays on empirical truth, Habermas usually regards propositions as the truth-bearer: in making an assertion, "I am claiming that the proposition [Aussage] that I am asserting is true" (1971/2001, 86; cf. 2003a, 249ff).

So the Romney campaign is not intending to make an assertion.