The genre of a posting can be perceived as an announcement, a question, clarification, interpretation, conflict, assertion, etc.
The researchers set out to fill knowledge gaps within the National Security Agency's current phone metadata program, which has drawn conflicting assertions about its privacy impacts.
Reaching for one to pour into a cup of coffee or tea can sometimes feel like sweetener roulette, with the swirl of confusing, conflicting assertions about which are safe and which are not.
An examination of the wreckage of a military helicopter that crashed in Chechnya on Sunday and of the bodies of the 14 men who died led to conflicting assertions about the cause of the midair explosion that brought it down.
The conflicting assertions may allow Mr. Milosevic, if he chooses, to invalidate the election on Sunday and call a rerun at a later date, when interest and passions may have cooled.
The panel says there are "conflicting assertions and differing views" on links between PBS and villagisation, the complaints by the refugees and the bank's adherence to its policies and procedures, which could adequately be addressed through an investigation.
I am not sure of the points of international law here, and have read conflicting assertions about what Davis's standing was, and exactly what sort of immunity he might have been eligible for.
But this dictionary, like many other contemporary counterparts, sits comfortably amid the swirl of conflicting assertions, nodding this way and that, deferring to the mastery of each and all, while urging the reader to hop up and join it on its precarious Humpty Dumptyish perch.
Human rights groups say they have interviewed witnesses who said Mr. Hilal was at the scene of atrocities during the Darfur conflict, assertions that he denies.
Instead, he and his aides have simply declared that "the president can't have a conflict of interest," an assertion that is not true.
Such negative assertions can be in conflict with other, positive, assertions, a conflict that could be captured in the summary line, with the use of terms from the branches 'confidence statement from conflicting evidence lines of same type' and 'confidence statement from conflicting evidence lines of multiple types'.
