Sentence examples for making the assertion from inspiring English sources

An insincere speaker $S$ who asserts that $p$ may know that the addressee $A$ knows that $S$ does not believe that $p$, but may still intend to make $A$ believe that $S$ does not know about $A$'s knowledge, precisely by making the assertion that $p$.

An assertion by its nature presents what it is saying as true, and any assertion which fails to be true is ipso facto liable to criticism, whether or not the person making the assertion themself wished to have said something true or to have lied.

What someone tells you about that particular situation reveals more about the worldview of the person making the assertions than it does about facts on the ground.

At a recent dinner, the Nobel-winning scientist and former president of Caltech, David Baltimore, made the provocative assertion that our system is unfairly maligned and underrated.

Mr. Berezovsky made the assertion in a letter to President Vladimir V. Putin.

And the official who made the assertion, Jeffrey M. Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, reiterated it on Friday.

But there is enough known to make the assertion of such universal features as have been given with fair confidence.

H. Carl McCall, the New York State Comptroller, made the assertion in a letter urging board members to reconsider the severance package.

"When he has the chance to make the assertion in a case where it really matters, he doesn't.

He made the assertion after watching an interview that Clark gave to Channel 4's Dispatches programme in April 2000.

Baldwin makes the assertion in a Guardian article, one of the first comments on the much criticised campaign from Ed Miliband's own team.