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Sentence count:187+6Posted:2017-02-26Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: affirmationasseverationavermentstatementSimilar words: assertivedissertationdesertificationassertassertedexertioncertificationdessertMeaning: [ə'sɜːʃn]  n. 1. a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) 2. the act of affirming or asserting or stating something. 
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61, Few other authorities have supported Jennings' assertion and it has not found acceptance by most practitioners of government.
62, The inquiry says he did not raise his flag an assertion he strongly denies.
63, Such an assertion today would be greeted with incredulity and disbelief.
64, Such an assertion presupposes a well-founded theory of performance, one which was able to assign periods of time to mental processes.
65, Unlike most deconstructionist critics today, Goethe went beyond the assertion that modern science consists largely of constructed knowledge.
66, The emphatic assertion of individual control over health exerted in some of these accounts can be looked at in a wider context.
67, The employee's assertion that the invention has generated outstanding benefit has to be determined in relation to all the surrounding facts and circumstances.
68, This assertion was a crushing blow to the hopes of the Seminoles and the blacks.
69, Henry Ford's assertion that history was bunk was itself bunk: theology seemed to me a much better candidate.
70, Following Bagehot or modern functional sociology, the assertion is made that the figure of the sovereign binds together the national collective.
71, It was a little less than half enquiry, and a little more than half assertion.
72, However, the assertion that the poor examination results were largely attributable to the low expectations of the department went forward unamended.
73, Often the interaction between interest groups has consisted largely of assertion not fully supported by objective data or rational argument.
74, Unfortunately, as we have seen in Chapter 2, this assertion has not been true for more than twenty years.
75, A fifth mistaken approach is the facile assertion that opponents are being inconsistent.
76, The assertion that some particular type of conduct is morally wrong because it is may appear unsatisfactory but it is unchallengeable.
77, Some buckled beneath the assertion that Greene was the greatest anyway.
78, Paragraph 8 of the council's statement of claim makes a similar assertion in relation to the article of 24 September.
79, A second criticism is the assertion that it is impossible to develop a science of politics because of the subject matter.
80, An assertion is not defamatory simply because it is untrue - it must lower the victim in the eyes of right-thinking citizens.
81, Alternating attempts at forthright assertion of authority and tentative gestures of conciliation exacerbated the situation.
82, The generalized assertion of privilege must yield to the demonstrated,(sentencedict.com) specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial.
83, The assertion of exclusive rights will, however, be actionable in tort.
84, It does not deny the truth of the assertion that Parliament could, if it wished, confer such powers upon government.
85, There is a basic truth in his assertion, for before his time the use of marble was rare in Roman architecture.
86, It is bald assertion, based on what economists call casual empiricism.
87, All civilised states recognise this assertion of personal liberty and privacy.
88, The assertion that there was no such thing as mental illness, that it was a myth, seemed incomprehensible to her.
89, This could be done by beating down, as in the assertion of dominance over local authorities.
90, In doing so, they replace debate with assertion, and pull an essay away from patterns of reasoned argument.
More similar words: assertivedissertationdesertificationassertassertedexertioncertificationdessertadvertiserproportional representationassassinationportionabortionapportionobservationreservationproportioncommiserationconservationperturbationassumptionproportionalassociationparticipationin proportion toreapportionmentmass productionclassificationarticles of confederationlesser
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