Sentence examples for on assertion from inspiring English sources

She is long on assertion and light on data.

This was the price of a foreign policy based on assertion rather than on persuasion.

Yet the DoJ's case is flimsy, based on assertion, coincidence and lobbying from Amazon, says Benedict Evens of Enders Analysis.

The Prime Minister was strong on assertion, passion and emotional engagement and short on actual hard evidence confirming a 'smoking gun'.

Pro-choice campaigners have long been frustrated by the extent to which fundamentalist anti-abortionists rely on assertion, rather than evidence, to argue against any abortions being available.

We have found the government's arms export licensing regime, which it repeatedly asserts is robust, is in fact to a large extent opaque and the government too often relies on assertion rather than positive evidence.

For one thing, he predicated his statements on assertions that Israel is violating the agreements, which Israel denies.

Yet his charge sheet is long on assertions and short on hard facts.

The Romney-Ryan plan for Medicare reform depends on assertions that are ideologically consistent.

(A lot of this seems to depend on assertions that I made predictions I never actually made).

The motion is based, in part, on assertions that instructions to the jury were flawed and the jury pool was tainted by leaks to news reporters.