Sentence examples for rival assertions from inspiring English sources

12. Canada and Russia's rival assertions of sovereign authority over the Arctic North Pole.

Canada and Russia's rival assertions of sovereign authority over the Arctic North Pole.

The exchange of rival assertions has made the occasion even more embarrassing.

After many months of rival assertions by interested parties, we finally have an authoritative assessment by an impartial referee of the effects of the so-called Gang of Eight senators' proposed legislation on immigration.

Bush officials continued to side with the Bells, questioning their rivals' assertions that rates would go up and competition would decline.

Some of Mr. Strauss-Kahn's allies even contended that he had been set up by his political rivals, an assertion that law enforcement authorities said there was no evidence to support.

Angry Levski fans burst in shortly after the start of the news conference and made him take off the club's shirt, contending that he was a supporter of cross-city rival CSKA Sofia, an assertion he denied.

Panpsychism's assertion that mind suffuses the universe presents a fundamental and sharp contrast with its basic rival, emergentism, which asserts that mind appears only at certain times, in certain places under certain probably very special and very rare conditions.

IF this is funny, this (from the Hill) is hilarious:Senior advisers to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y). on Monday sought to reconcile the campaign's assertion that rival Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill).

He suggests that Darwin had other reasons for summarily dismissing Grant; i.e., "Grant was an evolutionist" (p. 70), presumably meaning that Darwin could not tolerate any rival evolutionist, a questionable assertion that Thomson fails to support and that is not consistent with the general notions expressed about Darwin's receptivity to the ideas of other evolutionists.

But he finds himself at the center of a fusillade of criticism from his rivals, including an assertion by former President Bill Clinton that to elect Mr. Obama would be to "roll the dice" for America — a comment that validates the political threat Mr. Obama poses.