Words similar to assertion

Example sentences for: assertion

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Based on this faulty assumption, Landsburg then goes on to make the assertion that since our grandchildren are going to be so rich, they won't mind being reduced to seeing things like trees only in photographs, and they "might prefer inheriting the proceeds of economic development to inheriting the redwoods," anyway.
The anticolonial thrust appears in the assertion of the Americans’ equal claim to rule by “consent of the governed.”
It culminated in this assertion: "You can't trust Sheffield Nelson."
She insists that her affidavit, her cover story for the relationship, and even her statement that "there were other people present" when she was with Clinton (virtually identical to Clinton's assertion that "I was never alone with her") were "incomplete" and "misleading" but "literally true."
Responding to Bauer's assertion that he had never violated his wedding vows, another reporter cracked, "President Clinton said that too."