sweeping assertion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsweepingandassertion
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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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(Definition ofsweepingandassertionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Secondly, our interviews suggest that such asweepingassertionof civil service support is misguided; the picture needs to be disaggregated.
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That is a rathersweepingassertionof a kind which all too frequently one hears in this place.
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I have heard no evidence to justify such asweepingassertion.
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I did not make thesweepingassertionthat it could not be done.
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Having made thatsweepingassertionhe said nothing further to seek to justify it.
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He took refuge in thesweepingassertionthat, 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 asweepingassertion, but to a great extent he was correct.
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It was asweepingassertionthat he made.
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A verysweepingassertionwhich is not supported by facts or proofs.
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That is a rathersweepingassertion.
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I think he made thatsweepingassertion.
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That seems a somewhatsweepingassertion.
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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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