1. These institutions have made the assertion of ethnic identity possible. 这些机构已使种族身份的坚持成为可能。
2. Their work makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated. 他们的研究提出了一个相当惊人的主张：我们通常称为天赋的特征被严重高估了。
3. To live in the United States today is to gain an appreciation for Dahrendorf's assertion that social change exists everywhere. 今天生活在美国，是对达伦多夫关于社会变革无处不在的主张的赞赏。
4. 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". 对奥巴马总统的反对以8比0的结果告终，大法官塞缪尔·阿利托在他的反对意见中称，这是“对联邦行政权力令人震惊的断言”。
5. Practice does change the brain, he allows, but what is questionable is the assertion that these changes affect other brain regions, such as those responsible for spatial reasoning or math problems. 他承认，练习确实会改变大脑，但值得怀疑的是认定这些改变会影响负责空间推理或数学问题等其他大脑区域的主张。
