(Court filings for the defense don't deny that assertion, but contend that the testimonials were nonetheless authentic and came with disclaimers like "results may vary").
But he also makes an assertion that is overly narrow.
Now, this is not an assertion that is without merit.
Angry Levski fans burst in shortly after the start of the news conference and made him take off the club's shirt, contending that he was a supporter of cross-city rival CSKA Sofia, an assertion he denied.
The Penske Media Corporation, she contends, has not delivered promised resources — an assertion that a Penske spokeswoman called "patently not true".
Defense lawyers are now requesting new trials, contending in papers unsealed this week in Federal District Court in Manhattan that the tapes should have been disclosed earlier and would have helped them discredit Mr. Fadl, an assertion that prosecutors reject.
In what seemed an important assertion of neutrality by the United Nations team going into Iraq, Mr. Blix, a 74-year-old Swedish diplomat, said, "We are not on our side contending that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction".
widely read" but then dismisses its readership in contending that "It will not now be recollected very well by many people, as its success was in reality an ephemeral success, and the reputation it procured for its author fleeting".4 Henry James' assertions here are correct from a contemporary viewpoint, now that time and critical intervention have all but wiped Crane from the canonical map.
There was no way to verify Mr. Abbasi's assertions; he also contended that the I.A.E.A. had been infiltrated by "terrorists and saboteurs," suggesting they were responsible for the attacks.
A Jamesian might contend that this objection is unfair.
He still contends that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme, an assertion Herbalife denies.
