Sentence examples for we were asserting from inspiring English sources
As a country governed by law, we were asserting the superiority of our system to others governed by dictatorship.
To support an assertion, we cite a fa for the term we are asserting and then show that the thing we are asserting it of is relevantly similar to the fa.
"We're asserting our independence".
"We're asserting our legitimate patent rights," said the lawyer, Joseph F. Coyne of Los Angeles.
"What we're asserting is that the country would be in a much better position if women were represented in leadership all across the country".
Faced with this terrifying situation – exemplified by the election of neo-Nazis deputies in the Greek parliament – we are asserting our solidarity: we are all Greek Jews.
"While we are asserting patent claims of our own, we do so in response to Yahoo's short-sighted decision to attack one of its partners and prioritize litigation over innovation".
Otherwise we are asserting, without justification, a correlation between a formal feature the computer program just happened to uncover and a significance that has simply been declared, not argued for.
So you might wonder why we're asserting ourselves today.
Similarly, when we assert "that house is not red" we are asserting a state of affairs we have apprehended, namely, the not being red of the house.
