Sentence examples for mere assertions from inspiring English sources

As for her Christmas holiday, Ms. Alliot-Marie told reporters there were was no question of her resigning "over false claims, mere assertions".

It averts the need to shoot much, if any, new footage, and through the use of actual images and the words of the target — sometimes misleading, sometimes not — the negative message can be made to appear more credible than mere assertions.

Nonetheless, the mere assertion that QE is symmetric is, in effect, asymmetric.

It may be true but it is not on the mere assertion".

He firmly rejects liberal individualism as nihilistic, the mere assertion that the meaning of life is me.

Once you have cleared the misleading language of rights claims out of the way, are you back to the mere assertion of conflicting political values?

Until now, the argument that couples should wait until they are married before they have sex has rested on mere assertion and anecdote.

But the mere assertion that the dollar's pre-eminence is waning — a theme picked up by Russian officials as well — sends a message.

The mere assertion of a laudable governmental purpose, of course, should not immunize a race-conscious measure from careful judicial inspection.

In October, 2005, at an advertisers' conference in Phoenix, Bill Keller complained that bloggers merely "recycle and chew on the news," contrasting that with the Times' emphasis on what he called "a 'journalism of verification,' " rather than mere "assertion".

Members of the congressional intelligence committees need to be able to discuss what they know without resorting to elaborate circumlocutions, and White House officials need to try persuasion instead of mere assertion.