Calling the NATO attackers "crusaders" set the tone, as did the assertion, common in all the bombings, that NATO was lying when it identified the Brega target as a "command-and-control" center for pro-Qaddafi forces.
Also routinely ignored is the assertion, common even to the apparently disparate voices in paleoanthropology from the hunter-gather to the gatherer-hunter end of the spectrum, that our native intake of fiber was very high -- averaging something close to 100 grams per day.
The report's assertions make common sense: for drug cartels, government seizures are merely a modest line-item in their budgets; the "maximum" - meaning, farcically optimistic - estimate of drug seizures runs to 25% of total supply.
Such statements are clearly false, and yet, such assertions are common on the Internet and even in some peer-review articles.
By designating the problem in this manner, and identifying political opponents through the ideology of crime and disorder, she was able to link her successes to a simple assertion of common sense.
Behind the cliche, though, lurked a more interesting assertion: that "common sense" could be sensibly applied via existing laws, even in the case of a technology which didn't exist when those laws were written.
The assertion of common descent could also have been disproven with the invention of DNA analysis.
Justice DeGrasse proceeds to take the air out of many common assertions about the success of public education, particularly about the value of diplomas.
In an effort to separate the reality from the political rhetoric, we asked Professor John Salt of UCL's Migration Research Unit to respond to some of the most common assertions about immigration to the UK.
These latter trends are explained in view of the common assertions that thinner electrodes and increased fuel utilizations are the means of fuel cell operation enhancement.
