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How to use assertion in a sentence

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The government's assertion that torture and summary executions might be carried out without recourse to the law clearly shocked the court.
The parenthetic principle functions as appositional, alongside, but also foundational, rendering a more emphatic assertion unnecessary.
It makes this assertion in support of its argument that a longer sublease would have been easier to market than a shorter sublease.
This is a passionate essay, but one that tends to substitute assertion for argumentation and engagement.
Yet a vague assent to a vague assertion only yields twice as much vagueness.
A telltale sign of this trick is the rule, established by the assertor, that one may not reject any portion of the assertion.
In practice, there are many venture capitalists who will protest the assertion that all they want is to make a quick buck.
That can be the only basis for the assertion that the safety issue is a myth.
For once the assertion that this is television that will ask questions seems very likely to be true.
The working class at home is beginning to be starved, and is being buoyed up with the assertion that this is the last great war.
As for her assertion that our community leaders are working towards cohesion, I should think they are!
Each time he gets a black cube it confirms the assertion that all six cubes are black.
For the record, in case anyone is thinking it, the assertion that women are worse at maths is also utter rubbish.
This is the polite version of the assertion that there is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not said it.
This has lead to the assertion that a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan may affect the weather in Europe within a week or two.
If not, doesn't this simply verify the assertion that such orders are a joke in this Internet age?
It is usually regarded as an assertion that we are all the same under the skin.
There may be room for the assertion that the bailiff was not tactful and that his firmness and size intimidated those in that room.
Free will, as I understand it, is the assertion that a person is the cause of their own actions.
This disproves the assertion that tyranny is impossible to impose on an armed population.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Such an avowal of nescience is an implicit assertion of an immeasurable insight.
Martin corroborated the assertion of the Strawberry, that there was fire in the woods.
To this assertion there were but three dissenting voices, and one dissenting opinion.
At this intolerable assertion as he deemed it, Edward Gilder was reanimated.
The language was unequivocal, the assertion one that required no elucidation.
Moreover, it is a gratuitous assertion to say that endocarditis exists in all cases of the disease.
The erroneousness of the assertion that the volcanoes of the Island of Java do not emit streams of real lava.
It is not only ethnography, but also history, which accords with this assertion.
She thought of Giulia's assertion that the disfigured girl had the evil eye.
Mr. fantom believed, not in proportion to the strength of the evidence, but to the impudence of the assertion.
Here the give-up, the negation of the lower passions, synchronizes with a take-up, the assertion of a beatitude.
That the Divine law has in this sense come down to us uncorrupted, is an assertion which admits of no dispute.
These facts constitute a complete answer to the assertion that this book will tend to increase the practice of sharping.
Such characteristics do not go to the solidification of opinion in a profession, nor to the assertion of it in an aggressive way.
And, secondly, the assertion of indefinability involves us in a difficulty.
It admits some fact or supposition in spite of which the assertion in the main clause is made.
The actual judgement, which enounces the assertion of the rule in the subsumed case, is the conclusion.
The words were not a question but a breathless assertion as she remembered the Jotun's last threat.
Of this discovery, the first distinct assertion is contained in the thesis of Protagoras.
I have let this last assertion stand as part of the original article, although Mr. Machen writes me that I am in error.
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