When the prosecutors asked for Ms. Stewart's removal they said they had filed sealed information supporting their assertions involving her.
Mr. Beattie said he was assured by the Justice Department today that it was not pursuing the assertions involving the Hungarian Government contract.
But he disagreed about the assertions involving Judge Marquardt, saying, "Wherever the line is, it is somewhere well short of a double conviction for illegal drugs".
This is an almost impossible burden for newspapers and publishers to meet, particularly when the assertions involve serious claims and the plaintiffs are rich.
Indeed I suspect one of the chief reasons so many Americans prefer harrowing Internet rumors to mainstream news is that they've grown impatient with journalists' pretense that their assertions involve only truth, only facts unmediated by opinion or partiality.
The process of integrating what is known from the literature into a set of expert assertions involves highly complex decisions and is well beyond most of the common bioinformatics tools.
The knowledge expressed in medical sentences in the clinical sections of drug monographs can be summarized using simple assertions involving one or a few medical concepts, such as "if disease then contraindication".
Having a bookcase full of snakes might not be a seduction tactic, but there is certainly an element of showy display, and of self-assertion, involved in keeping unusual creatures.
Although assertions are written only using the steps of the protocol, the logic is sound in a strong sense: each provable assertion involving a sequence of actions holds in any protocol run containing the given actions and arbitrary additional actions by a malicious adversary.
Professor Massad said through an e-mail message, "It is inconceivable that I would ever respond to a member of the audience in the manner and context that he describes". Another much-discussed assertion involves Deena Shanker, a Barnard senior not in the film.
The assertion involves Iran's claim that even while it begins to enrich small amounts of uranium, it is pursuing a far more sophisticated way of making atomic fuel that American officials and inspectors say could speed Iran's path to developing a nuclear weapon.
