Sentence examples for to assert to from inspiring English sources

"To allege" means " to assert to be true", and so pertains either to the assertion of a suspect's guilt ("The police allege that Smith committed the robbery"), or to the existence of the crime itself, when this is not yet shown: an alleged conspiracy, say, or an alleged fraud.

Vince was watchful and restrained, desperate not to flirt outside his off-stump (there was just a solitary aberration); meanwhile Ballance was almost skittish, eager to assert to himself as he flicked another ball through midwicket.

After the trauma of the Aids crisis and the homophobia it unleashed, Pansy Division wanted to assert to the rest of the world that being gay can be great.

We have over the past two years done too much to assert to our world partners that narrow and mercenary U.S. interests override the cherished values of our partners".

Yet, in a manner that has defined Bayern's dominance this season, the hosts responded with two fantastic chances, first a volley from Javi Matinez and then a short-range shot from Arjen Robben, to assert to any doubters just who was in control of the game.

Koppelman's Vines (along with wildly popular screenwriting-advice sites like the one by John August) occupy a strange writer-empowerment territory that has grown up on the Web, places where seasoned practitioners of the form try to assert to their followers that there is an art to what they do, and that the art can be gradually decoded.

Furthermore, he asserts, to attempt to preclude falsehood is to underestimate the power of truth.

"That's what we need to have again," she asserted to strong applause.

It is a broader reluctance to engage, to assert responsibility, to commit.

To assert otherwise is to create the wrong impression.

Later she confides: "I would like to get stronger, to assert myself, to harm her, Doctor".