Sentences with phrase «mere assertion»
The phrase "mere assertion" means making a statement without providing any evidence or proof to support it. It is when someone claims something without any real backing or legitimate reason. Full definition
Much of what's left of the humanities seems based — in a postmodern way — on the allegedly candid self - awareness that what they teach is worthless or whimsical or a mere assertion of personal identity.
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So, you@Andy: I still say that the mere assertion that he created us is reason enough that we are worthy of being spared the punishment he also created.
I still say that the mere assertion that he created us is reason enough that we are worthy of being spared the punishment he also created.
Already Marx had moved beyond the idea of atheism as a mere assertion of the unreality of God.
Referring to the FMCSA enforcement decisions as reported on the Department's Docket Management System, he noted that «the tenor of the pleadings on both sides often appears to be bitter, going well beyond the mere assertion of different, conflicting arguments about what the law requires and what penalty, if any, should be imposed.»
That statement is an attack on science, it is a denial of scientific ethics, and its mere assertion undermines public confidence in science.
Jan P Perlwitz «I see here only two mere assertions without any evidence.
Mere assertion that something is fact will not persuade many people of the rightness of what we say.
This latter issue is complex since the distinction between true negotiations and mere assertions and commercial comments may, in practice, be difficult to assess.
The court was critical of the approach taken in Ruralcorp which was said to have consisted of mere assertion (that the plaintiff was not a shareholder of the subsidiary) and a failure to understand the distinction between a shareholder of record and someone simply claiming an equitable interest in the shares (the proper position being that only the latter could not bring a derivative claim because a company does not recognise equitable interests).
Though the policy function of the public sector seal is distinct, some of the techniques of creation or substitution are similar, though the mere assertion of intention to seal will not be good enough to satisfy that policy (as it probably will for transactional seals).
Mere assertion will not do.