Sentence examples for striking assertions from inspiring English sources

In one of his more striking assertions, Mr. Moallem said the refugees who had fled Syria had been manipulated into leaving by Syria's neighbors to create an artificial crisis so those neighbors could receive foreign aid.

There are a number of striking assertions by the Office of Budget Responsibility, whose forecasts underpinned the chancellor's Autumn Statement.

The more fertile ground for querying the poll is to be found around the wording of the question which led to The Sun's striking assertion.

Casting Bale, one of Hollywood's most sought-after stars, is also a striking assertion of the Chinese film industry's aspiration for equal status with its American competitors.

But the most striking assertion in the suit, one Smithfield devotes five pages to, is that the union was engaged in racketeering when it urged local governments in New York, Boston and other cities to pass resolutions condemning the company.

A study by psychiatrists at Duke University, published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, in 2006, made a striking assertion: about half the Presidents they studied had suffered a mental illness at one time or another.

But Mr. Sullivan also offered a new and striking assertion: that Mr. Stevens had not been familiar with the details of the project and could not have knowingly concealed the costs, because Mr. Stevens's wife of 28 years, Catherine Stevens, had the principal responsibility to look after the details of the renovation.

That's a striking assertion, but the study's model left out several important real-world factors.

The encounter between Indian and European traditions provides Stuart's book with one of its most striking and contentious assertions.

It has been especially striking how often questionable assertions are reported as fact.

The rise of an illiterate cow-herder's son was the most striking symbol of political assertion by the oppressed against the upper castes, which had long dominated northern India.In this section Justice and the killing fields All the frills of party politics Indonesia's dangerous politics Misadventure The politics of extremism ReprintsBut now Mr Yadav may be in trouble.