For the Saudis, who spend millions of dollars annually on public relations in the United States, today's announcements were the latest effort to counter assertions that Saudi Arabia is a breeding ground for Islamic extremism and a major financier of terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and Hamas.
The generals' earnest, beseeching tone seemed highly incongruous from the leaders of a professional fighting force, and it may have been intended to counter assertions here that the violence reflected a new and deliberate assertion of the military's power as Egypt's promised transition to democracy drags on.
Safwan M. Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development and author of Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly, comments on the present situation in Tunisia, to offer his perspective on how recent demonstrations in Tunisia may be contextualized, and to counter assertions that they are a reprise of the 2011 revolutionary moment.
The destruction of the field trial, and the reasons given for it, touched a nerve among scientists around the world, spurring them to counter assertions of the technology's health and environmental risks.
Allegations in the lawsuit counter assertions by Lyvette Crespo's attorney that his client was a years-long victim of domestic violence who was trying to protect her son.
A24 Nuclear Plants Called Safe Seeking to counter assertions that the nation's nuclear plants are vulnerable to attacks like the one on the World Trade Center, 19 prominent experts have concluded that such plants could easily withstand the force of a jetliner crash.
The step-by-step approach was described as the latest American tactic to counter assertions by France, Russia and other Security Council members that they would oppose lifting sanctions without a broader role for the United Nations than the one envisioned by Washington.
The briefings in late September, including one for editors and reporters at The New York Times on Sept. 26, were designed to counter assertions by Republicans that the federal health marketplace would not work and was not ready.
Much like Mr. Obama, Mr. Bush regularly talked about his coalition, numbered at 49 shortly after the invasion, in his case to counter assertions that he waged war unilaterally over the objections of the international community.
Sawyer was not here to counter assertions made this week by Viscount Monckton that wind power will do nothing to lower global temperatures: "A crazy peer from the UK is not really my debating partner," is all that he would say on that matter.
Pao's detailed allegations of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and professional retaliation are not new, nor are Kleiner's counter assertions that Pao's failure to advance at the firm were instead due to her alleged failure to measure up as a competent and cooperative employee.
