Sentence examples for sharply assert from inspiring English sources

Its critics, citing results of a test this winter that showed that the ratings for some series popular with those audiences fell sharply, assert that the new system will discourage networks from developing and showing programs aimed at black and Hispanic viewers and will discourage marketers from advertising on existing shows geared to those viewers.

The number of blasphemy cases, once rare in Egypt, has increased sharply as Islamists assert their new power in public life.

And they have been sharply criticized by some economists, who assert that such incentives mainly benefit established companies with lobbying clout and are not very effective in creating new jobs.

The advocates assert that the rule will allow the department to sharply limit approvals.

In their dissent Thomas and Scalia assert that while the power of the federal government is sharply limited by the Constitution, the power of states is not similarly constrained.

Commercial mayonnaise holds it together and asserts itself sharply, sweetly.

The government sharply rebutted the report, asserting that South Africa had improved its arms program substantially since the end of apartheid.

Spencer Bachus, the Alabama Republican who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, responded sharply to this account, asserting that banks were avoiding risks because of the heavy hand of government regulators.

In an interview today, Mr. Torricelli sharply attacked the prosecutors, asserting that they had spent a great deal of time and public money trying to make a major case out of what were in fact nothing more than a few minor accounting irregularities by his campaign.

Over the last year, Democrats have opposed and mounted filibusters to block the confirmations of a handful of Bush appeals court nominees who, the Democrats assert, have such strongly held conservative views that they would shift the courts sharply rightward.

They assert that, in the face of the cruel forces that create and destroy an ephemeral world, the poet must savour the more sharply its rich physical beauty.