This week Mnuchin made an assertion / threat that was both dubious and grossly irresponsible for a Treasury Secretary: that failure to enact the Trump tax package would send the stock market into a dive.
M. Berg, Haifa, Israel Threats to Israel Roger Cohen's assertion that the threat Israel faces is not destruction but de-legitimization is only half true ("Modern folly, ancient wisdom," Globalist, June 11).
But it was the message -- medieval, conspiratorial, filled with specific assertions and threats -- that made experts believe the tape was real.
Evidence-free assertions of threats to life and liberty began to flourish.
She reminds us that wars usually begin not with the force of arms but the force of words: assertions, declarations, threats, and the like.
Cross-examining York, Tom Wainwright, acting for Lucas and one of her co-defendants, Ruth Potts, challenged the officer's assertion of the threat posed by the demonstrators.
However, a lawyer representing the school's parents' association challenged the board's assertion that no threat existed and charged that officials had delayed making the findings public.
One new element is Mr. Romney's assertion that the threats have "grown worse".
But if those assertions about the threat from Hussein's weapons of mass destruction were empty, what was the rationale for the war?
Males have shown antagonistic behaviors such as attacks, pursuits, threats, assertion, fighting, and subordination.
Its assertion that imminent threats are fair game for extrajudicial killing has underpinned the sort of executive overreach through which targeted killings proceed outside of due process.
