Sentence examples for retract the assertion from inspiring English sources

"Nothing the government has yet done purports to retract the assertion of executive power Padilla protests," Justice Ginsburg said, adding that "nothing prevents the executive from returning to the road it earlier constructed and defended".

Marino demanded that Gibson Dunn retract the assertion that Stepien had assured Christie he had "no prior knowledge" of the "lane realignment".

This is the idea that assertion is partly characterized by a commitment to take back, withdraw, or (in later writings) retract, the assertion in later adverse contexts.

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.

Maitra and Weatherson claim that there need be nothing wrong with first asserting that $p$, and later, in response to a question, deny that one knows that $p$, but without retracting the assertion.

(He later retracted the assertion).

Sightings in Biscayne Bay at that time were believed to have been from home aquariums that were destroyed during the hurricane, though the researcher who first proposed the theory has since retracted the assertion.

He later retracted the statement.

Of course, they quickly retracted the statement.

Days later, the lawyers retracted the statement.

The second horn of the dilemma leads one toward retracting the original assertion: that the rational part, the intellect, is the form of the body.