Sentence examples for the sort of assertion from inspiring English sources

It is the sort of assertion all major tobacco companies deny, saying they are just providing product choices to adult smokers.

He promises to "Make America Safe Again," saying things like "This summer, there has been an ISIS attack launched outside the war zones of the Middle East every eighty-four hours," the sort of assertion that makes it easy to conflate geography, numbers, and motives and believe that the United States is somehow under regular assault by radical Islamic terrorists.

I don't need to point out that this sort of assertion is as naive as it is vile.

It's the sort of blanket assertion that's difficult to disprove because what is he even talking about?

Trump responded by offering up the sort of knowing assertions about how the system is rigged, which he tosses out to his supporters like coins.

His explanation of the difference between non-normative and normative assertions (between, as he put it, 'the assertion that someone was obliged to do something and the assertion that he had an obligation to do it') was merely that the latter sort of assertion is used to display a distinctive sort of attitude.

His delusions were not of 'reds under the bed' but more the sort of far-left paranoid assertions that if you are not growing your own organic mung beans, doing vegan yoga and supporting revolutionary socialism from behind a keyboard then you must be some kind of warmongering neo-liberal arms dealing CIA stooge.

They didn't look askance when their supporters prattled on about "taking my country back", though they are educated enough to have recognised in such assertions the sort of brutal nationalism that tore Europe apart last century.

The banks both denied any wrongdoing, relying on their assertion that the sort of transactions used were common practice on Wall Street.

Philosophy, said Mr. Blackburn, should help to inoculate people against false appeals and baseless assertions -- just the sort of thing that passes for debate in America's polarized culture.

We hear these sorts of assertions with increasing regularity these days, a rhetorical shrug at the reality that the American economy is stuck in a hole, leaving millions of people out work and unable to pay their bills.