Sentence examples for provocative assertion from inspiring English sources

It is a provocative assertion, one that Tye earnestly sets about to prove.

Whether you agree or disagree, you have to admit that's a provocative assertion.

These are not occasions for provocative assertion, but for binding messages, ones that reassure and inspire disparate figures in the audience and well beyond.

And the change in policy also came through a provocative assertion of our Constitutional norms — standing in front of Congress took more strength than hiding from it.

In a bold and provocative assertion of state over church as anger rises in Europe over abuse by priests, the police not only detained the members of the Belgian Bishops' Conference for nine hours on Thursday while searching for documents related to sex abuse cases, they also drilled into the tombs of two cardinals in the Brussels Cathedral.

It will be interesting to see (hello Senate estimates) precisely whose imprimatur at Screen Australia and the ABC ultimately deemed it a good idea to make this show, given Bolt's provocative assertion that "I am an Indigenous Australian" and his long-held animosity towards the broadcaster.

His essay appeared on the heels of his latest book, "Stravinsky: Discoveries and Memories" (Naxos), which repeats its most provocative assertions, blending the artistic, historical and personal.

The dictionary's translations, he noted, "run the gamut between conclusions founded on an unshakable array of evidence and provocative assertions about slim data".

Although Derbyshire's essay included some rather provocative assertions about "the mean intelligence of blacks," its advice was notably similar to Hanson's: "Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally".

Provocative Assertions Such statements involve "a certain deeply embedded anti-Americanism," said Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative group that studies religious issues and public policy.

During a weekend of Republican attacks on Senator Barack Obama's personal associations, Fox News Channel ran a program Sunday that made provocative assertions about similar connections, called "Obama & Friends: The History of Radicalism".