Sentence examples for test the assertion from inspiring English sources

The experiment guaranteed supplies, so it did not test the assertion that you need to charge something to encourage reliable suppliers.

Elsewhere, the food crisis of 2008 will test the assertion of Amartya Sen, an Indian economist, that famines do not happen in democracies.Famine traditionally means mass starvation.

The scoops we added to a giant goblet were room temperature and looked a bit pasty – it had an "enzyme" that kept it from melting, we were told by the room's jovial host, but was still edible (I didn't test the assertion).

The Ethics and Compliance Officer Association, working with the University of Chicago Graduate Business School and Harvard's School of Public Health, will recruit corporate guinea pigs to test the assertion: Strictly speaking, the project will try to quantify the financial value of corporate ethics and compliance programs.

I hate to go there, but one way to test the assertion that proposals like this can't be stopped is to flood the system with proposals that target others in a similar outrageous and utterly unacceptable ways.

One consequence is that we're not able to directly test the assertion that the polls are collectively biased towards one candidate or the other, at least not until the actual election occurs.

The assistant treasurer, Kelly O'Dwyer, said the ACCC had established the facts in the gas market after the confidential nature of contracts, prices and negotiations had hampered the ability of previous reviews to disentangle and test the assertions about the market.

By revealing them, investors would have been better informed of the risks the bank was taking, and more able to test the assertions of management that the situation was under control.

Psychologists in Norway decided to test the assertions made by Petra Hesser, head of IKEA in Germany, in 2008 that women are better than men at assembling flat-pack furniture because they read the instructions carefully.

Here we report results of a randomized study testing the assertion that an envelope teaser could increase response rates among a nationally representative physician population receiving a mailed questionnaire.

Despite the lack of isolated virus, the pan-lyssavirus sensitivity and specificity of the fluorescent antibody test (the test prescribed by the World Organisation for Animal Health as the standard for rabies testing) and direct rapid immunohistochemistry test support the assertion that a novel lyssavirus exists in the region.