Sentence examples for seem to assert from inspiring English sources

In these, the celebrants seem to assert their collective will to survive: they're fighting death, not sleep.

The states seem to assert some sort of property interest in having their investments dealt with under the bankruptcy code in the event of default.

The viewer begins to realize that various juxtaposed elements are intended to have more of a metaphoric than strictly narrative relationship, as we're repeatedly presented with visual juxtapositions that seem to assert that the polarities we expect will be maintained -- like purity and corruption, innocence and knowledge, or desire and repulsion -- are breaking down.

This reading of Aquinas as, in a nineteenth and twentieth century jargon, "a liberal" (or "the first Whig") is often disputed, for there are statements in his writings which taken acontextually seem to assert the simpler and paternalistic Aristotelian position.

No one has any idea how to paraphrase most of these claims in a non-quantificational idiom, and they certainly seem to assert (or deny) the existence of various sorts of properties.

Instead of trying to pretend that cloud is perfection (which some cloud-pundits seem to assert) and that VMware is such a thing, at this year's show we saw a VMware that has regained confidence in itself.

And there they remain, or seem to, asserting their presence but otherwise hardly communicating.

And China has submitted a map that seems to assert ownership of a vast part of the South China sea.

­Turing seemed to assert that we can leave consciousness aside for the moment while we attack simulated thought.

His most striking public pronouncement on the Dewani case came when he seemed to assert the British man's guilt.

which seems to assert the power of those who were previously designated male to tell lesbians, and especially lesbian feminists, what to say and think".