Words similar to assertion

Example sentences for: assertion

How can you use “assertion” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But since Livingston's sins were about sex, not perjury, his assertion that he was setting an "example" suggested that Clinton should resign not for lying but for adultery.
Richard Lugar's assertion that the Pentagon will not have the computer models to simulate nuclear tests, as promised by Clinton, until 2010.
Our BAC library hybridization results also support this assertion.
The play's depiction of this assertion of “reverse racism” questions the legitimate use of race in evaluating promotion and achievement in science.
The problem—and it is a serious one— is that there are, indeed, many words and phrases that originated at sea and were brought ashore for ready embodiment in everyday speech, but to find the same terms in both does not justify the assertion that the sea term came first.