That was hard to take, McLaughlin said, but no harder, he asserted, than being dismissed by Spanier and other Penn State officials.
Unfortunately her belief that radical activists of the 1930s and 1940s "hastened" the end of Jim Crow in the postwar era is more asserted than demonstrated.
It contends only that what it offers is less bad than the alternatives (though its case against one alternative — what it calls, a little tendentiously, "precipitate" or "premature" withdrawal — is more asserted than argued).
Even though this new consensus was more asserted than definitively proved by experimental evidence or clinical observation, it soon became dogma, and helped change the way doctors treated cancer.
Many themes in the accompanying texts are more asserted than developed: journalism's consistent political contentiousness, perennial suspicion of newspaper bias, the evolution from elite argument to popular entertainment (and manipulation).
Peter Raymont and Michèle Hozer's new documentary, "Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould," advances the claim that its subject was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, and while this idea is more often asserted than argued in the film, the filmmakers nonetheless supply a scrupulous, candid and eye-opening account of his life and times.
Although the government asserts than 12,000 lives were saved by the ASE system, scientific evaluation and economic analysis were not really undertaken.
And no one had done this better, he asserts, than Mr Zuma.
Enthusiasm for Clinton's long-expected candidacy, while obviously sincere for many partisans, is more asserted than obvious.
