Examples of averred

• If the crimes of totalitarianism were as original and immense as she averred, then could they be anything other than demonic?

• Critics have averred that war crimes trials are meagre tools for advancing the claims of traumatic history, being essentially reductive and individualistic.

• In fact, many points raised by the ' critical ' approach have quite pragmatic implications, if the political compromise averred in this paper is to work.

• The problem is that the messages being conveyed were not in every case the director's averred intent.

• Skinner averred that experimental analysis would ultimately reveal causal links between covert behavior and the overt environment.

• Sometimes, it is averred that the investigation of causal mechanisms involves a different set of methodological tools than would be common, or useful, to an investigation of covariational relationships.

• Friedrich, for example, averred as a 'fact' that physicists (and by implication other scientists) 'use calculus (or some other mathematics) as their basic language, the language of conceptualisation' (1986:159).

• It has been averred by one speaker after another this afternoon that this is a somewhat vindictive political measure.

• The father, however, averred that with his own hands he had cleared the table four months previously.

• He was to be given an opportunity to explain matters averred in the charge.

• Indeed, many people doubted it personally and averred strongly that it could not be done.

• I do not think it can be averred that his speech, to which reference has been made, was in any way a party speech.

• Can it be solemnly averred that with these strangleholds they cannot force the industry to do exactly what they want?

• The manufacturers averred that in view of their costs of production, no reduction could be made.

• He averred that £2,000,000 was said to be necessary, and that we are only proposing to spend £200,000.