There is little evidence to support claims of bears drowning as the ice melts, but assertions that they are thriving are also nonsense.
But assertions that the Islamic Republic is now imploding in the fashion of the shah's regime in 1979 do not hold up to even the most minimal scrutiny.
Companies have been formed and products have been introduced that claim to use genetics in this way, but assertions have turned out to be unfounded.
For many of us who grew up with rock, our personal musical tastes weren't casual consumer choices but assertions of identity.
Against this view Mill insists that 'propositions … are not assertions respecting our ideas of things, but assertions respecting the things themselves' (1843, 88).
Statements of opinion are protected as free speech, but assertions of fact are not.
The mystery deepens in any case with the assertion: "but, love, you are/ No longer yours".
But his assertion was swiftly contradicted -- not just by environmentalists and California officials, but by the energy industry.
But the assertion begs two questions.
But neither assertion is quite true.
