Sentence examples for something to assert from inspiring English sources

For yes supporters the issue has become something to assert, celebrate and proclaim to the world as their identity.

This is quite something to assert, given that if Woods did manage to win this week he would be halfway to a grand slam and that by all earthly calculations he is a hotter favourite to win this major than he has been when winning the previous seven.

Isn't that great!... It's about time we did something to assert ourselves", and visited the open Stonewall Inn for the first time.

It is one thing to acknowledge that a work is the product or even the expression of a human experience and that it is designed to occasion certain kinds of experiences; it is something else entirely to assert that the work is itself an experience and nothing more.

During the final months of last season, when City were straining to assert something of the ascendancy the new owners were so intent on establishing, Kompany played with damaged bones and ligaments in his foot.

While it might seem from President Bush's poll numbers that there is no more effective way to lead than simply to assert something with the courage of one's convictions, a true democratic leader will affirm his position and articulate the reasons for it clearly while respecting and listening to the positions and reasons of others.

Demands that Trump apply the term "terrorism" to the Las Vegas shooting or the Charlottesville murder are attempts to assert something that should be obvious: armed white men pose a statistically greater threat to the safety and security of Americans than do Muslims, immigrants, or even Islamic militants.

The critic insists that to assert something one must believe it.

The instrumentalist says that in an utterance of "the number of apples is two", the speaker is merely pretending to assert something; nothing is really asserted.

For the same reason, a finitary general proposition is not to be understood as an infinite conjunction but "only as a hypothetical judgment that comes to assert something when a numeral is given" (ibid).

Even with those few examples, it can hardly be said that they express the disappearance of something: Li's (2009) investigation shows that such clauses are not employed to convey the meaning of "there (dis)appears something in someplace", but to assert the occurrence of certain events.