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Example sentences for: assertion

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The most high-handed moment of his presidency--the attempt to pack the Supreme Court in 1937--is made the worse by his almost insane assertion that the Supreme Court was one of the "three horses" pulling the New Deal "plow."
Only days later, in the Nov. 24 Weekly Standard , he repeated the assertion phrased for maximum emphasis:
More importantly, her assertion that the audience is unclear about Cagney's true state of mind at the end of Angels With Dirty Faces is just plain wrong.
Most stunning of all, however, was the Times' assertion that the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, which purports to be a serious research institution, "issued a statement saying the President was not anti-Semitic " [italics Chatterbox's].
The escalation culminated in an assertion by the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, Rep.