Sentence examples for what she asserted from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Clinton accused Mr. Lazio of trying to avoid a discussion about his positions on health care and the economy by raising what she asserted were false claims about her commitment to Israeli security.

But just a few hours after Ms. Whitman spoke, Ms. Díaz Santillán appeared at her own news conference with a celebrity lawyer, Gloria Allred, to produce the April 22, 2003, letter, with what she asserted was handwriting on it from Ms. Whitman's husband, Dr. Griffith Harsh.

In an interview, Ms. Whitman — who has been running advertisements promising to be "tough as nails" on illegal immigration — said that she thought voters were concerned about other things besides immigration, and that she was raising the issue only in response to what she asserted were Mr. Poizner's distortions of her record.

"I'm confident he did what she asserted.

Under normal conditions, a speaker can be justified in making an assertion even though what she asserts is false.

Bach directly infers that the norm of assertion is the belief norm from the fact that an assertion is sincere if, and only if, the speaker believes what she asserts.

So by asserting (24) the speaker induces a contradiction between what she asserts and what she implies.

But when she utters the same sentence in the philosophy room, she speaks literally and then what she asserts is something highly non-trivial.

Moore's idea (1944: 175 6; 1966: 63) was that the speaker in some sense implies that she believes what she asserts.

Within the limits of presumed competence, the hearer ascribes to the speaker justification or warrant or knowledge for what she asserts.

Without a distinction between direct and indirect commitments, we would either have to require logical omniscience of asserters, or deny that the speaker in any sense commits herself to what follows from what she asserts.