Sentence examples for unsupported assertion from inspiring English sources

This is based solely on the unsupported assertion that the Chinese behemoth fears that the collapse of its smaller neighbour will somehow overwhelm its resources.

Ridley calls this the most robust method to estimate climate sensitivity, but that is a dubious and unsupported assertion at best.

In "Even united, Europe faces power drain" (Letter from Europe, Dec. 20), Judy Dempsey makes the unsupported assertion that "Germany lost an extraordinary amount of international credibility" when it abstained from the U.N. vote on the Libya no-fly resolution.

Even aside from all that, the Ryan budget purports to reduce the deficit — but the alleged deficit reduction depends on the completely unsupported assertion that trillions of dollars in revenue can be found by closing tax loopholes.

His close friend and editor Robert Holliday wrote that it "is not an unsupported assertion to say that he was in his time and place the laureate of the Catholic Church".

Either they defend their presidential nominee and impugn the integrity of this country's balloting, or incur the wrath of millions of his supporters who might believe his unsupported assertion of a "rigged" election.

In doing so, the D.C. Circuit appears to be making the same bald, unsupported assertions it criticizes the S.E.C. for.

Let's talk about what's actually in the Ryan plan, and let's distinguish in particular between actual, specific policy proposals and unsupported assertions.

Reviewing a galley of "The Phenomenon of Life" in the journal Architectural Record in May 2002, William S. Saunders, the editor of The Harvard Design Magazine and an admirer of Mr. Alexander's early work, called the book "full of contradictions, foggy generalities and extreme and unsupported assertions".

To appreciate the virtues of this book (it is, in its way, an exceptional synthesis), one has to make a conscious and concerted effort to ignore the condescending tone, the incessant sneering, the unsupported assertions and the gross generalizations.

That has not made the world less messy, so I, Mitt Romney, will reverse that course and my change will have magical consequences.Yet take Mr Romney's detailed case, and it is full of wishful thinking, unsupported assertions and omissions.For example, Mr Romney said:The attacks against us in Libya were not an isolated incident.