Sentence examples for to assert something from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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).

"The truth is, this commission really did not have access to the type of intelligence that would have been necessary to indisputably assert something new".

He also coined the expression "Cromwell's rule", which essentially says that one should never assert something to be either completely impossible or completely certain, unless it is logically so.

"It's one thing to have information in a classified document with caveats and footnotes, and another to have the president flatly assert something," an intelligence official said.

For after all, if truth is a norm of assertion, then, if you assert something false, you are open to criticism.

Before mathematicians assert something (other than an axiom) they are supposed to have proved it true.