Sentence examples for proper to assert from inspiring English sources

Angus Robertson, the SNP leader in Westminster, said it was "right and proper" to assert the Scottish interest on foxhunting given that there are moves in Holyrood to toughen up Scotland's law on the issue.

Angus Robertson, the SNP leader in Westminster, said it was "right and proper" to assert the Scottish interest on foxhunting given that there were moves in Holyrood to toughen up Scotland's law on the issue.

It is primarily improper but secondarily proper to assert what you reasonably believe that you know but you in fact don't.

Also, Ishani Maitra and Brian Weatherson (2010: 112) propose what they call The Evidence Responsiveness Rule, that one assert that p only if one's attitude towards $p$ is properly responsive to the evidence (they also propose to complement it with an action rule, that it is proper to assert that $p$ only if acting as if $p$ is "the thing for you to do").

A large part of the intuitions that serve to support one or the other norm theory relies on raw intuitions about what one should or shouldn't assert in some situation, or what is proper or improper to assert there.

Appearing yesterday under subpoena, Mr. Conway defended Mr. D'Amato as acting entirely "proper" and "not trying to assert, in any way, any undue influence" or gain any special treatment.

In the onshore nation, democratic governments and their citizens will finally be able to assert fair and proper authority over corporations and finance that have for half a century or more detached themselves from the solid ground from where their business derives, causing all manner of systemic problems in the global economy.

While it is probably not a surprise to learn that rivers are the same in number only in a less proper sense, it is striking that Buridan goes on to assert that plants and non-rational animals too can only be numerically the same in this less proper sense (Quaestiones super De gen. 1.13 (2010, 114 15)).

Parallels with medical treatises suggest that, after first raising difficulties about medical knowledge in these matters, Alcmaeon may have gone on to assert that these difficulties can be overcome with the proper teaching, the teaching that followed in his book.

Instead, one is indicating that one is in a position to assert that such and such is the case (one has the proper credentials and reasons) in circumstances where it is necessary to resolve a doubt.

Some in the audience tried to assert that the press was to blame for not giving advertising a proper hearing.