Trump traveled to Europe saying that next week's summit with Putin may be the easiest part of his week of diplomacy — an unusual assertion, challenging the notion that NATO should project a strong and united front against a strategic rival.
Founding members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss recently stated that they had not been invited to perform with fellow original members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, an assertion challenged by the current group.
Reports from the American military headquarters in Qatar quoted officers as saying at first that the tank fired only after it was fired at from positions in the hotel, an assertion challenged by witnesses.
He has said he was trying to rid the computer of software viruses, an assertion challenged by members of Congress and by lawyers representing current and former employees of the office.
But current administration officials say conditions in El Salvador have improved since then — an assertion challenged by advocates who point to a State Department travel warning for U.S. citizens.
Scientists at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., say they have created 24 cloned cows that are normal in every way, an assertion that challenges the widely held view that cloned animals are prey to a host of defects.
In 1934, Pond wrote an article challenging the popular assertion that the Home Insurance Building was the first steel-framed skyscraper.
What dawned on me as the night went on is that even in apparently frivolous conditions the establishment asserts control, and won't tolerate having that assertion challenged, even flippantly, by that most beautifully adept tool: comedy.
The judge in the Haifa case also accepted the claim by the Israeli military that troops in the area had recently been attacked with a grenade – an assertion also challenged by the family.
When the article appeared, Rodriguez issued a statement challenging its assertions.
McCain aides were positively gleeful last week as they watched replays aboard their campaign bus of a heated back and forth between Mr. Romney and an Associated Press reporter who challenged an assertion about the influence of lobbyists in his campaign.
