Sentence examples for principal assertions from inspiring English sources

The principal assertions of their campaign – that Brexit entails massive risk and needless surrender of influence – is beyond rational dispute, or it should be.

Cosby's defense team has attempted to discredit Constand and Johnson with three principal assertions: that the women told confusing or inconsistent stories about their alleged assaults, that they hoped to get something out of their complicated relationships with Cosby, and that all the sexual contact in question was consensual.

His parallel send-up of television news coverage, including the bathetic voyeurism surrounding the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. in 1999, is more chidingly adjectival than properly parodic: "The self-seriousness of the commentator was perfectly matched to the speciousness of his principal assertion".

Eubulides of Miletus was a contemporary of Aristotle in the fourth century BCE who was famous for his paradoxes, the best known being the "liar paradox" ("I am a telling a lie," which, if either a true or a false statement, leads to the negation of the principal assertion).

As it stands, the principal assertion of the first figure is weak, thereby weakening the rest that follows.

But Lewis Katz, the Nets' principal owner, has disputed that assertion since the two franchises began working toward the merger.

The principal rationales for the invasion — the assertions that led many reluctant liberals to sanction it — turned out to be false.

This further supports the assertion that in the principal contractured phenotypes mimicking collagen VI disorders the α6 chain is not affected.

The principal narrative that developed among colonial authorities was an assertion that dryland peoples have deforested their own landscapes, which again led to reduced rainfall and the creation of deserts.

A scathing United Nations report published months after the war pointed to evidence of possible war crimes, but its principal author, Richard Goldstone, a South African judge, later retracted the assertion that Israel had deliberately killed Palestinian civilians during the fighting.

That nobody is likely to dispute the assertion is both the film's reason for being and its principal flaw.