But the administration is asking Congress to make a decision to go to war based on conflicting statements, angry assertions and assumptions based on speculation.
Provocative Assertions Such statements involve "a certain deeply embedded anti-Americanism," said Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative group that studies religious issues and public policy.
Untethered assertions, statements with no or hardly any real-world referents, take, on a spooky half-life; they hover like, ghosts.
Under these assertions, the following statements hold: (1) The evaluation of all elements P m ( m ∈ N 0 ) of the tripolynomial function system at two adjacent nodes z 1 and z 2 of the particular polynomial P j yields complete information on a sequence of new polynomials T n ( n ∈ N 0 ).
"As an agent operating in Chelsea, we have a diverse international clientele and encounter a whole range of requests, statements and assertions on a daily basis which we do our best to filter.
According to him, making an assertion involves making a statement and intending to cause belief in the truth of that statement by giving an implicit "warranty"or an implicit "promise or assurance that the statement is true" (Fried 1978, 57).
On April 1, Maxwell accused Jones in a Massachusetts court filing of making "materially false and misleading statements" including the assertion that the Jones bid of $20 a share "provides an attractive premium" to shareholders.
For a period in 2006 when Camp Delta held about five hundred prisoners, Wittes examined all the available data — including the military's assertions about the prisoners and any statements that they themselves made — and estimated that about a third of the detainees could reasonably be said to be terrorists or enemy fighters.
The commercial, which shows wolves in the woods moving menacingly toward the camera, says Mr. Kerry had supported budget cuts in intelligence in the 1990's "so deep they would have weakened America's defenses," an assertion followed by the statement, "And weakness attracts those who are waiting to do America harm".
For a period in 2006 when Camp Delta held about five hundred prisoners, Wittes examined all the available data including the military's assertions about the prisoners and any statements that they themselves made and estimated that about a third of the detainees could reasonably be said to be terrorists or enemy fighters.
