Sentence examples for the assertion on from inspiring English sources

Such additional experiments are conducted with two intentions, to confirm or reproduce the assertion on the one hand, and to exclude alternative explanations on the other hand.

The fate of a kidnapped American marine remained unclear after a militant group declared false the assertion on a Web site that he had been killed.

US Weekly, another celebrity magazine, cited sources who said that Jamie Lynn's mother, Lynne Spears, had sold the pregnancy story for $1 million, printing the assertion on the cover of last week's issue.

He repeated the assertion on Sunday in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week," as Stephanopoulos explained to Trump that police had refuted any such rumours at the time.

There is shock, disbelief and horror and if the catastrophe is as public as the one that befell Fabrice Muamba during his team Bolton Wanderers' FA Cup tie with Tottenham Hotspur there is also the assertion – on the terraces and the airwaves and in the headlines – that suddenly something as trivial as football no longer matters.

Family pride prompts me to believe the assertion, on Wikipedia, that the first-ever cocktail party was thrown by a Mrs Julius S Walsh in May 1917 – an hour-long knees-up for 50 people, from noon until 1pm, when lunch was served.

In situ analyses by landers and rovers support the assertion of widespread sulfates on Mars.

If you are seeking to protect your authority, why draw attention to evidence that seems to contradict the assertions on which that authority is founded?

The White House responded vigorously to the assertions on Wednesday, saying it never concealed its most dire estimates of the spill and quickly threw everything the government had at the problem.

But the federal authorities and other local officials maintain that violent crime rates in border communities have remained flat or have decreased and that the assertions on ProtectYourTexasBorder.com are largely anecdotal.

"We would be disappointed if this were true," said Fred Eckhard, Mr. Annan's spokesman, commenting on the assertions on Thursday by Clare Short, an outspoken former member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet.