The YPG denies any direct organisational links to the PKK - an assertion backed by the US, which has provided the militia and allied Arab fighters with weapons and air support to help them battle the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
BBC executives, including Mr. Entwistle, who was then in charge of television programming for the corporation, have strenuously denied pressuring "Newsnight" to drop the Savile segment, an assertion backed by the "Newsnight" editor who made the decision, Peter Rippon.
GOP leaders say that the Kickback propelled Scott Brown over the top in a special election in Massachusetts, an assertion backed by reporters on the ground, who encountered furious opposition to the backroom deal.
He also is adamant that Brazilian sugar-based ethanol is a greener and more socially beneficial fuel than the corn-based ethanol commonly used in the United States, an assertion backed, with some qualifications, by many environmentalists.
Goldman tells HuffPost that he made sure to alert members of the advisory committee as soon as the mistake was caught, an assertion backed up by committee member Larry Mishel, a progressive economist with the Economic Policy Institute.
The YPG denies any direct organisational links - an assertion backed by a US-led coalition whose air strikes have helped the militia and allied Arab fighters drive Islamic State militants from tens of thousands of square kilometres of Syria.
However, even as a prototype it's clear this will be a contender for pride of place in many a pocket, an assertion backed up by almost 15,000 people who, in the words of founder Bas van Abel, "have already pre-ordered a phone that doesn't exist yet from a company that's never made a phone before".
Geltman says BLLs are higher on average in refugee children versus U.S.-born children, an assertion backed up by published reports from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Indiana, Rhode Island, Florida, California, and other states.
Recall that earlier in this article we defined evidence as "an argument or assertion backed by information" (Cairney, 2016, p 3). Said evidence was considered scientific if it was backed by the scientific method.
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, the Foreign Relations Committee's ranking Democrat, dismissed as "malarkey" Ms. Rice's assertion, backed by commanders in Iraq, that 120,000 Iraqi troops had been trained.
Unlike argument, where a speaker explicitly presents reasons to back the assertion, in normal testimony the speaker does not.
