assertion• It was a little less than half enquiry, and a little more than half assertion.• I just had to castdoubt on his assertions.• The only thing that is constant is the assertion of difference.• Alternatively the violation can be inverted; like a black comedy, or the assertion of a starkrevenge or retribution.• Unfortunately, as we have seen in Chapter 2, this assertion has not been true for more than twenty years.• This assertion was a crushingblow to the hopes of the Seminoles and the blacks.
makes ... assertions• Leapor makes general assertions about marriage in this poem partly because she can not make further particular observations without offending Octavia.• Fred is the person who makes confident assertions like this.