Fratto's assertion "seems to be an unsubstantiated statement that has no relation to the facts they have shared with us," Waxman said.
Angered by demands for a recount in the three states that gave him an electoral college victory, President-elect Donald Trump made a bold but unsubstantiated assertion in a tweet — that "millions of people" voted illegally in the presidential election.
The Conservative MP Dominic Raab, who worked with the intelligence agencies in a previous incarnation as a Foreign Office lawyer, put it well in a parliamentary debate last week when he challenged "the shrill and unsubstantiated assertion that we have somehow lost track of terrorist plotters as a result of the revelations".
"Very few people have come out of Trumpland in better shape than they went in, and that's definitely the case with Nunes". Taken in their most benign light, Nunes' actions over the last few weeks were part of a Republican effort to provide cover for President Trump after his unsubstantiated assertion that he'd been wiretapped by President Obama.
The Revenue, by contrast, offers questioners nothing beyond bluster and unsubstantiated assertion.
There is simply no basis for the unsubstantiated assertion that panel lawyers are less skillful and effective than public defenders.
"They are products of completely different eras and run according to different rules and principles". At one point Bartlett makes the unsubstantiated assertion that "democracy is analogue rather than digital" – in other words, slow, deliberative and grounded in physical space.
His case against current scientific explanations of the relatively rapid appearance of the animal phyla rests on the claim that the origin of new animal body plans requires vast amounts of novel genetic information coupled with the unsubstantiated assertion that this new genetic information must include many new protein folds.
Bernard-Henri Bernard-Henri Lévyated assertion that this uprising is the "end of the Islamic republic" is equally irresponsible, playing directly into Ahmadinejad's hands by equnsubstantiatedwith subversion.
When a blogger published unsubstantiated assertions about a candidate on the CBS News Web site, aides to the president complained so vigorously that the author acknowledged repeating rumors and the network ultimately removed the post.
