Sentence examples for were assertions from inspiring English sources

Such claims made by police about "villains gunning for cops" were "assertions", she said.

Most provincial of all were assertions by the Nets and others that the vote was an example of continued national disrespect for a team that had radically reworked its image.

So, they would make these assertions about who these people were, and at first I believed these were assertions made out of ignorance because frankly, I'd made the same assertions ten years earlier, before I'd studied, before I'd worked on this.

Among them were assertions by DBS that a merger of United Overseas and Overseas Union would be hobbled by "decision paralysis and infighting"; that the merged bank's board and management would comprise "friends and family"; and that the deal was intended to protect the family that controls Overseas Union at the expense of public shareholders, who own 85percentt of its outstanding shares.

Among the things that filtered to the Rangers and were attributed to Barnaby through Ray by a third-hand source were assertions that Eric Lindros shows up for only some games, that Brian Leetch was spent after competing in the Olympics and playing so many minutes for the Rangers earlier in the season, and that the entire team had tired of Theo Fleury's antics.

MANILA — The death toll from the typhoon that tore through the southern Philippines this week rose past 450 on Friday with over 500 still missing, and there were assertions that climate change, deforestation, poor planning and other factors had worsened the catastrophe.

They are assertions.

These are assertions founded on lies!

But anecdotal evidence lends weight to Mr He's assertions.

Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.

The laws of thermodynamics are assertions about such average behavior.