The Court basically asserted that most attempts to regulate the private marketplace, or to protect workers, were unconstitutional.
But it sparked a revolt in which the police department basically asserted its independence from civilian authority.
The Citigroup settlement differs from that, because the S.E.C. is basically asserting that Citigroup misled its own shareholders, whereas it said Goldman misled its customers.
Keynesian economics basically asserts proposition 1. Testing that proposition is tricky, but that's always the case in economics; you have to look for natural experiments, or be very careful about controls.
The theory basically asserted, in the words of the economist Burton Malkiel, that "a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts".
The argument is complex — think of it as Asterix meets "Longitude" — but Mr. Robb basically asserts that the Celts followed the directions of their druids, a caste of scholar-priests who believed in following the path of the sun at the solstice to guide their vast tribal migrations.
On Monday, James Taranto, an editor at the Wall Street Journal, a widely read and respected broadsheet, published a piece in which he basically asserted that rape victims who are drunk at the time of their attack are as much to blame as their rapist.
He maintains his $2 target on the stock, and basically asserts that the core business is worth nothing at all.
The very theory basically asserts that if you save a dollar today, you have an expected return on what that dollar will give you tomorrow.
Andreessen then refutes Sacks' argument point by point, basically asserting that larger companies are, in many cases, less equipped than startups to execute on novel and world-changing ideas (Apple Ping anyone?), as they care more about stability than change.
Not thrilled with this morning's Verizon-Google seven-tier joint policy proposal, FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps put out the following one paragraph statement earlier today, basically asserting that the FCC is more interested in protecting consumer rights than Google and Verizon's wishes.
