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Example sentences for: assertion

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It was the growth and military assertion of the newcomers that drove the “hairy people” (as they were labeled) back north to their present concentration in Hokkaido.
Although it's hard to disagree with James Surowiecki's roasting of Wade Cook in "The Book on Cook," Surowiecki's assertion that the equity stock option market is "simply a big casino" that "contribute[s] nothing to the smooth functioning of capital markets" is both wrong and silly.
The Guardian of London quotes Pakistan's information minister's assertion that "in a situation where people don't even make gestures, this is a powerful sign."
But the article's illustration of this assertion is even more fallacious.
' " Thus "available" is bootstrapped into "used" and "used" into "used in Laos," while "used in Laos in this particular operation" sneaks through by implication, all buttressed by the empty assertion that "this"--what?