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词汇 example_english_sweeping-assertion
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sweeping assertion

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meanings of sweepingand assertion


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sweeping
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈswiː.pɪŋ/ us /ˈswiː.pɪŋ/
affecting many things or ...
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assertion
noun[C + that]
uk /əˈsɜː.ʃən/ us /əˈsɝː.ʃən/
a statement that you strongly believe ...
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Examples of sweeping assertion


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Secondly, our interviews suggest that such a sweepingassertion of civil service support is misguided; the picture needs to be disaggregated.
That is a rather sweepingassertion of a kind which all too frequently one hears in this place.
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I have heard no evidence to justify such a sweepingassertion.
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I did not make the sweepingassertion that it could not be done.
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Having made that sweepingassertion he said nothing further to seek to justify it.
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He took refuge in the sweepingassertion that, because the electricity supply industry wants to produce electricity from gas, it therefore must be cheaper.
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I thought that was rather a sweepingassertion, but to a great extent he was correct.
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It was a sweepingassertion that he made.
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A very sweepingassertion which is not supported by facts or proofs.
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That is a rather sweepingassertion.
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I think he made that sweepingassertion.
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That seems a somewhat sweepingassertion.
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I think that he was referring, in his rather sweeping assertions earlier, to the non-proliferation treaty and, in particular, to article 6.
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It is extraordinarily difficult to answer sweeping assertions that everything is wrong.
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I would not commit myself to any sweeping assertions which appeared to challenge the broad foundations of international law.
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However, no sweeping assertions can bring that about.
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I really do not know where people who talk like that get their credentials for such sweeping assertions.
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He cannot make wide, sweeping assertions about any of them.
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We are all affected; this is relevant to all of us, and it helps not a bit to make sweeping assertions about who is guilty and who is not.
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However, she makes these sweeping assertions.
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