Sentence examples for serious assertion from inspiring English sources

The more serious assertion made by the Bank of Canada is that disallowing proprietary trading by a handful of American megabanks would negatively affect the market for Canadian sovereign debt in a significant fashion (Page 2).

But Moulton said: "We would welcome an opportunity to make our case that these serious assertions as to our behaviour are unfounded and unfair".

But dismissing this soundbite misses the chance to consider two serious assertions that underlie it: first, that what we are seeing in the Middle East right now is a collapse of American policy and interests on a par with how the fall of the Shah and his eventual replacement by a hostile theocracy, the hostage-taking, and the failed rescue effort damaged the US in 1979-80.

But they are different from more serious political assertions that she is prone to utter with conviction, only to have them turn out to be baseless.

Iraqi politicians said his comments on Friday appeared to represent an effort to stake out a bargaining position by signaling that Iraq was serious about its assertion of sovereignty.

Recently, the New Yorker's editors failed their readers by publishing Jonathan Franzen's birds-and-climate-change piece apparently without giving a serious look at assertions and basic failures.

But a visit to an enormous scrapyard on the side of a dusty hill surrounded by goat herds in this town about 10 miles southeast of Amman raises serious questions about that assertion.

But when Miller argues that we live increasingly in a world of debased fiction he is making a serious point; and his assertion that the Vietnam war was set off by an imagined attack on an American warship in the Gulf of Tonkin obviously has chilling relevance to the public pretexts for invading Iraq.

Second, Austin fails here, and elsewhere, to offer serious arguments for his assertion that none of the cited utterances is either true or false.

Mayer's tenure has not been a complete failure, and the increased frequency of this assertion begs serious questions about critics' grading scale.

The child mortality rate and other statistics contained in the report lend gravity to the basic United Nations assertion that serious investment in the rights and development of children is essential to overcoming poverty.