Sentence examples for was commonly asserted from inspiring English sources

For instance, it was commonly asserted that Chapman was trusted and respected by the Indians he encountered and even revered by them as a kind of white medicine man.

It is commonly asserted that the feast was the pagan festival of the dead.

It's commonly asserted that we walk around with more computing power in our pockets today than it took to get us to the Moon.

In atomic terms, the total energy is the sum of all the kinetic and potential energies of the atoms, and the entropy, it is commonly asserted, is a measure of the disorderly state of the constituent atoms.

And though there are strong grounds to question his sincerity, Israel's new prime minister, Ariel Sharon, claims to accept George Bush's peace "vision", set out in June, of an Israeli withdrawal and a free Palestine based on the borders of 1967.It is commonly asserted that Israel's occupation is "illegal".

This form of response is very similar to that of commercial Velcro and would indicate that Velcro better approximates the behaviour of C. lutetiana than A. minus as is commonly asserted.

It is commonly asserted that someone's compassion might lead them to act wrongly, to tell a lie they should not have told, for example, in their desire to prevent someone else's hurt feelings.

Thus it is commonly asserted that implicit within the metaphysical Hegel is an anti-metaphysical philosopher struggling to get out one potentially capable of beating the critical Kant at his own game.

Of twenty-five Crawford films released during the 1930s, she portrayed a salesclerk in only two (Our Blushing Brides and The Women); the record shows that she played a far wider spectrum of characters than is commonly asserted.

It is commonly asserted that once Reagan announced SDI in 1983, the Soviets realized that they could not compete with the Americans in an arms race centered on computer-based technology.

The Magna Carta, various coronation declarations going back even as far as a millennium, the Petition of Right etc., all refer explicitly to the "customs" of the people - those freedoms that the people have a right to expect simply because they are commonly asserted and have been enjoyed for so long.