Sentence examples for practiced assertions from inspiring English sources

And despite Mr. Bush's frequent stabs at specificity, he just as often clung to broad statements of good intent, using questions as springboards for practiced assertions that he would be a good leader, bring people together and care.

This concept seems to have developed through a merger of justifications for relic veneration practices and assertions about the originally luminous nature of the mind that are found in both very early Pali-language and Mahayana Buddhist texts.

Nevertheless, with the internet's coming, a series of assaults on copyright as traditionally conceived has taken place, either through changing practice or assertion of intent.

As Ivan Lewis, Labour's shadow business secretary, put it in an article in the Guardian, they fret that "the Murdoch empire has sometimes crossed reasonable boundaries with overzealous business practices and assertion of political power".Assuming that News Corporation wins over Sky's shareholders, the deal is likely to go through anyway.

That is, according to Searle, without rule 5, the practice of assertion would not exist.

For the anti-realist the true picture is that our well-founded practices of assertion ground at one and the same time our conception of the world and our conception of humanity's place within it.

This in turn suggests that there is a rule, or norm, governing the practice of making assertions that requires us to assert only something we know.

The connection to pragmatism is that his approach to language is focused upon what we do with language, with our practices of making assertions and of challenging or evaluating the assertions of others.

But Mr. Edwards has had a lot of practice responding to assertions that he is simply a greedy lawyer.

The platitude holds that it is constitutive of the practice of making assertions that assertions aim at truth.

In later work, such as Bach and Harnish 1978, and 1992, this view is refined with a notion of standardization, so that a sufficiently common practice of issuing assertions with performative effect enables speakers and hearers to bypass complex inferential reasoning and jump by default to a conclusion about the illocution being performed.