The speaker offers an assertion to a hearer with the (Gricean) presumption that the speaker has an interest in informing the hearer.
But in 2013, a documentary about the author and a related book offered a bold assertion: He had not only continued writing, but also left detailed notes to his trust about releasing the material between 2015 and 2020.
The 20-page letter offered a sweeping assertion of the powers of the presidency as well as a detailed and robust defense of Trump's actions in dealing with the unfolding Russia probe, including his firing of FBI Director James B. Comey in May 2017.
We will fight for what we believe in". In Washington, Sen. Kamala Harris, the California Democrat who has gained notice in the weeks since she took office, offered a passionate assertion of the crowd's potential.
testimony in court, or written evidence, of a statement made out of court, the statement being offered as an assertion to show the truth of matters asserted therein, and thus resting for its value upon the credibility of the out-of-court asserter.
The Mali intervention offered France "an assertion of French military capabilities outside of an operation dominated by the US," said Marc Pierini, a Frenchman who served 35 years as a European Union diplomat, including four years as its ambassador to Syria at the start of Assad's tenure.
The government said its ambassador to Colombia would not be returning to his post until Colombia's president, Álvaro Uribe, offered an explanation for his assertion that rogue Ecuadorean military officers had furnished Colombian leftist rebels with a rocket launcher used in a failed assassination attempt last month.
If the FBI isn't exploring Swetnick's allegations, it means that it also probably hasn't interviewed a second, unnamed person who offered a sworn statement supporting her assertions.
WASHINGTON, Iowa — Jeb Bush backed away from criticizing Pope Francis on climate change on Wednesday, but he did offer a stronger assertion than many of his Republican presidential rivals that global warming is a threat and that the federal government should address it.
Lest anyone think the Greens are beyond reproach, said Mr. Dendahl, now weary of the whole ordeal, it took their leaders almost a month to inform him they would not take the offer, an assertion Mr. Wilson confirmed.
But Mr. Sullivan also offered a new and striking assertion: that Mr. Stevens had not been familiar with the details of the project and could not have knowingly concealed the costs, because Mr. Stevens's wife of 28 years, Catherine Stevens, had the principal responsibility to look after the details of the renovation.
