The Supreme Court upheld that decision, rejecting IDT counsel's contentions during oral argument that the claims against HJ, to the extent valid at all, were derivative and therefore belonged to Straight Path and could not be asserted directly by the minority investors.
One possibility is that it provides a ready and convenient rallying point for corporate America in its defense against the demands of institutional investors (frequently spearheaded by activist investors, but increasingly asserted directly by traditional asset managers) for better corporate performance.
The indictment, part of a long-awaited report about the attacks running nearly 1,500 pages, did not assert directly that the plotters had been motivated by anger at the policies of Spain's government.
But in I.R.A. parlance, the execution of drug dealers is not normally a military operation, and the statement did not assert directly that the group had no involvement in the killing this week of a reputed drug dealer, Brendan Campbell, who was a Catholic, and of Robert Dougan, a Protestant member of the outlawed Ulster Defense Association, a paramilitary group.
"Nobody will believe that you're smart if you don't believe it," she emphatically asserted, not directly at me yet I could feel the rebuke in her words.
Exactly how this has come to pass, I assert, is directly related to how "colonial entitlement" continues to pervade academic forums.
5. In some later developments of the theory of generalized conversational implicatures, especially in Levinson (2000), some generalized implicatures are not really indirectly conveyed, but contribute to what is said, for instance (directly) asserted.
A methodology analogous to ours appears possible through the use of an OWL API through a subsumptive analysis of directly asserted and inherited property-value pairs.
The role relationships reflect much of the same, and some new, information, in a form that the description logic classifier can use; many are in fact inherited through the description logic system from concepts higher up the hierarchy, while those directly asserted for this concept are checked for consistency with the rest and used to distinguish this concept from other cutaneous melanomas.
Mr. Thompson's support, he asserted, will not transfer directly to Mr. Bush but will ensure that those who like the governor and his policies "give us a better hearing".
Ayatollah Sistani also asserted that only a directly elected assembly could approve the interim constitution now being drafted by the Governing Council and any agreement to keep foreign soldiers in Iraq.
