Sentence examples similar to old assertions from inspiring English sources

"Yet again we hear the tired old assertion that vocational courses presently offered are the easy option for schools and students.

Gottfried W. Locher writes, "The old assertion 'Zwingli was against church singing' holds good no longer ... Zwingli's polemic is concerned exclusively with the medieval Latin choral and priestly chanting and not with the hymns of evangelical congregations or choirs".

And it's a fair point, coming back to the old assertion that nobody should be able to decide what we do with our own bodies, as long as whatever that is doesn't harm anybody else.

Given the 18-year-old's previous assertions that he would prefer to continue his career in the Bundesliga, that has been widely been interpreted as evidence the forward will be signing for Dortmund having visited their training ground with his mother and representatives last month.

In June 1993 Wiles, a Princeton University mathematician, had claimed a proof, by relating the problem to a deep conjecture in algebraic number theory, of Pierre de Fermat's famous 350-year-old assertion that xn + yn = zn has no solutions for which x, y, and z are whole numbers if n is three or more.

As the baffling and then burlesque and then baroquely burlesque affair enveloping General Petraeus and his friends, of both sexes, fell upon us like another hurricane last week, it seemed to confirm once again Philip Roth's fifty-year-old assertion that you can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

By Adam Gopnik As the baffling and then burlesque and then baroquely burlesque affair enveloping General Petraeus and his friends, of both sexes, fell upon us like another hurricane last week, it seemed to confirm once again Philip Roth's fifty-year-old assertion that you can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

And now his own pet project, Lombardi, is the one he hopes will be the catalyst to buck one of Broadway's old-school assertions, which says that sports and theater don't mix.

(Carey has often described herself as an "eternal twelve-year-old," an assertion borne out by her enthusiasm not just for rainbows, butterflies, and glitter — all of which appear on her album covers — but for the songs that were actually on the radio when she was a teen-ager).

Some Jewish and Christian leaders, along with other critics, have expressed worries that the movie could rekindle old beliefs and assertions that Jews were responsible for the crucifixion.

Chris Keates, leader of the Nasuwt teachers' union, accused the education secretary of "trotting out tired old and false assertions about England's alleged slide down the international leagues tables as a justification for tearing up the qualifications and curriculum framework and pursuing his personal ideological crusade".