confident assertion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconfidentandassertion
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confident
adjective
uk/ˈkɒn.fɪ.dənt/us/ˈkɑːn.fə.dənt/
being certain of your abilities or having trust in people, plans, 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 ofconfidentandassertionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The fog of uncertainty inhibitedconfidentassertionthat his administration was on the right economic course.
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It has shrunk, but myconfidentassertionis based on fact.
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It is not a positive andconfidentassertionof a different conclusion.
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We have a great deal ofconfidentassertionfrom the other side on this subject.
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Why was he ashamed, after making aconfidentassertionof a fact, to give the source of his information?
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We are determined that it should not do so, and anything we authorised would be based on ourconfidentassertionthat automatic convertibility would in no way be jeopardised.
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From the confident assertions in the main body of the text, we might expect the claim that.
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In the absence of detailed public opinion polls, a historian needs to be careful of confident assertions about what their constituents might have tolerated in the 1950s.
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I quite see that there are a number of difficult points on which confident assertions may at present be impossible.
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There have been violent changes of policy after confident assertions made only a short time before.
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We have never had a single figure given to justify those confident assertions.
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All the confident assertions that borrowing is coming down may well turn out to be over-optimistic.
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