| Local security sources could have acquainted him with these facts if he had asked before making his assertions last Thursday. |
| Its contents consist largely of warnings, remonstrances, assertions, arguments in favor of certain doctrines, narratives for enforcing morals. |
| Davie qualifies bold assertions and subordinate escape-clauses, paradoxical epithets and sentences opening with an adversative link. |
| In the past, I might have struggled to join in, concealing my ambivalence with uncertain assertions. |
| Its 50 pages are filled with so many assertions, half-truths and qualifications as to render it worthless. |
| All they have got is the language and these phony assertions about being anti-racist, and they use those things as signs of their intentions. |
