assertion

[əˈsɜːrʃn]

Definition:
1. A declaration that is made emphatically.
2. A statement saying that you strongly believe something to be true.
3. The act of affirming or stating something.

Use 'assertion' in a sentence:

1. On both sides it was only assertion.
2. British parasitologist noted for advances in tropical medicine, such as the assertion that mosquitoes transmit malaria ( 1877 ).
3. That the truth consists of hard to vary assertions about reality.
4. Assertion methods that verify the state of GUI components.
5. you can usually find a narrative to support all but the most outlandish assertions.
6. Chapter XI Procedures for Publicizing Notice for Assertion of Maritime Liens.
7. The 8-0 objection to President Obama turns on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as "a shocking assertion of federal executive power".
8. The president addressed Republican assertions that he has not demonstrated enough leadership.
9. Some believe the deer still lives, but scientific observations have not validated this assertion.
10. When an assertion fails, an exception is thrown.
11. Chief executives" assertions of their skills is even more vexing.
12. If, in fact, arithmetic were inconsistent, then every assertion would be provable.
13. Bieber didn't take kindly to the assertion that he would lose.
14. He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.
15. The demonstration was an assertion of the right to peaceful protest.
16. Any assertion to the contrary is simply not true.
17. Perform the assertion related to the test case.
18. This is a subjective assertion.
19. It also followed a ruling by a United Nations organization, backing Washington's assertion that US beef is safe.
20. The source service stores the assertion temporarily.
21. How could suicide be an assertion of life?
22. There are considerable difficulties in clarifying the procedures appropriate for testing such assertions.
23. But what happens if an assertion fails?
24. Yet such assertion can not fully unveil the implications of the Dutch Book argument.
25. An authentication assertion is returned in response.
26. It is essential to balance assertions of sovereignty with the requirements of global co-operation.
27. Appropriate and thoughtful self assertion unlocks talent, setting achievement in motion.
28. He was correct in his assertion that the minister had been lying.
29. The decision is seen as an assertion of his authority within the company.
30. The assertion is not named; however, it is implied.
31. This revisionist thesis departs even further from Marxist assertions.
32. This extraordinary assertion was greeted with a roar of merriment.
33. This assertion is likely untrue.
34. Too little assertion also can be a problem.
35. Roon's assertion about the British plan to land in Norway is correct.
36. For years, blatantly false assertions have gone unchallenged.
37. Those who maintain that suicide is an assertion of life are cowards.
38. This assertion had become known as the Riemann Hypothesis.
39. At issue are patent assertion entities-specialised companies set up to buy and enforce IP rights.
40. For this example, the test assertion identifier is WSI2406.
41. Do you have any evidence to support your assertions?
42. It followed that this assertion could not be proved true, for that would lead to a contradiction.
43. Can I trust your assertion, Isabella?
44. His wife's assertion that he is innocent will ( surely ) be accepted.
45. An assertion is the basic unit of policy.
46. Last May, the United Nations effectively backed Washington's assertions that American beef is safe.
47. He made an assertion that he was not responsible for it.
48. The application acquires the identity for assertion.
49. I seriously question a number of your assertions.
50. But Miller makes one assertion that doesn't seem right.
51. Their work makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated.
52. These odd assertions were interpolated into the manuscript some time after 1400.
53. Notice that this is not an assertion I made.
54. Perhaps the least controversial assertion about the pterosaurs is that they were reptiles.
55. Luke's report seems to back up that assertion.
56. To support ( an assertion or a claim, for example ) with evidence or decisive information.
57. Tradition is another assertion when discussing almost anything to do withmonogamy and marriage.
58. and I got to thinking about her assertion.
59. Ideally the SAML assertion should be signed by STS.
60. Discusses and provides example code for using the ASSERT macro to check for assertion failures.
61. The assertion of the right to freedom is very important to all peoples.
62. But through it all, none was more vocal in his assertion than Prof Pavlov.
63. The character used to denote the start of line assertion.
64. These institutions have made the assertion of ethnic identity possible.
65. It might be a free standing assertion.
66. Self-assertion was not thought seemly in a woman.
67. This assertion rests on a misunderstanding.
68. And a rerun of the code results in a successful assertion.
69. On the face of it, the assertion seemed absurd.
70. If the assertion is valid, the code compiles smoothly.
71. If so, a comma "replaces" the zero width assertion.
72. She dismisses assertions that recent events should delay the ads.
73. His assertion goes to the heart of one of the problems associated with driverless cars.
74. Perhaps the rather peculiar Gdelian assertions could somehow be separated off.
75. The French navy rejected the Web site's assertion.