Such assertions surround current efforts to re-establish a fenced export zone in eastern Africa, for example (Kock 2010).
Qatar's victory was stunning, and its detractors have noted that there have been numerous assertions of bribery surrounding the vote, and they also say that several members of FIFA's executive committee at the time have since lost their posts amid charges of corruption.
Save for two EPs 2012's excellent Work, Live & Sleep in a Collapsing Space and last year's more experimental Assertion of a Surrounding Presence he's stayed mostly quiet.
"Yale President Richard Levin has asked the university's general counsel to commence immediately a review of the facts surrounding Tom Williams' assertions about being a candidate for a Rhodes scholarship, and we hope that the review can be completed expeditiously," the university said in a statement.
The assertions are the latest controversy surrounding Auburn, which won the Bowl Championship Series title in January.
Yale's president, Richard C. Levin, said in a statement that he had instructed the university's general counsel "to commence immediately a review of the facts surrounding Tom Williams's assertions about being a candidate for a Rhodes scholarship".
The announcement came after a week of increasing controversy surrounding Williams' repeated assertions over the years that he was on a Chinook helicopter that drew ground fire during the Iraq invasion in 2003.
But if true, his assertion adds to the mystery surrounding the motive and timing of Bharara's firing.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and chairman of the Finance Committee, who has been investigating the circumstances surrounding Ketek's approval, called the assertions about Ketek "very serious".
Of all the myths surrounding abortion, I feel that the assertion that it leads to depression and suicide must rank as the most odious.
Update: In hindsight, I want to acknowledge an issue that frequently arises within and surrounding the women's movement: an assertion that feminists elevate women by degrading men, and fight historic inequalities with demands for female rule.
