Sentence examples for only assertion from inspiring English sources

President Bush asserted executive privilege in 2001, his only assertion to date, to protect files sought by congressional investigators into prosecutions long since closed, including some under Bill Clinton.

Russell was also aware of certain contingent paradoxes involving propositions, such as the Liar paradox formulated involving a person S, whose only assertion at time t is the proposition All propositions asserted by S at time t are false.

This statement became known as his "last" theorem, because for many years it was the only assertion of his that had been neither proved nor disproved by his successors.

Peter Fitzpatrick, Norwich It is really only assertion that those who oppose military action against Iraq are only pretending to be animated by a concern for the people of that country, whereas we do have evidence that motives other than such a concern have dominated U.S. policy in the Middle East since 1945.

Since the proof is similar, we prove only assertion (iii).

They do not require prior approval from a judge, only the assertion that the information demanded is relevant to a national-security investigation.

Judge Laurence H. Silberman, in a concurring opinion a year ago, described the Boumediene decision as "the Supreme Court's defiant – if only theoretical – assertion of judicial supremacy".

The former enjoys the complacency of the au courant and the lassitude of at-hand language, while the latter believes with Thoreau that "this world is but canvas to our imaginations," that the only worthy assertion of imagination occurs by way of linguistic originality wed to intellect and emotional verity.

We only prove assertion (ii).

We only prove assertion (2).

We will show only the assertion (b).