Mr. Hussain, battered by days of cross-examination, seemed to find his nerve again, calmly challenging assertions by Mr. Briccetti.
Finally, and only after having challenged assertion after assertion made by Popper, Wittgenstein gives up.
Most outrageous, though, was his repeated and so far barely challenged assertion that Iraq was in "material breach" of repeated UN resolutions.
Some environmental groups challenged assertions in the document.
Mr. Brodsky also challenged assertions by the defense in connection to the sale of shares in Goldman Sachs.
Kennedy's most convincing points were on the economics of nuclear energy (an area the film avoids tackling), while Stone effectively challenged assertions about health risks.
The report, compiled by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, and released Wednesday, challenges assertions by the Japanese government that whaling is a tradition with wide support among Japanese consumers.
Two weeks after Palin's Facebook post, the White House established a "Reality Check" blog on which officials challenge assertions that they consider false.
United States Magistrate Judge Ronald J. Hedges made the decision after lawyers for the defendant, Hemant Lakhani, challenged assertions that were made by prosecutors at a hearing in Federal District Court this morning.
The supporters have not actively challenged assertions from former prisoners of war who are anti-Kerry that their Vietcong captors referred to his testimony during torture.
The lawmakers also challenged assertions by the Pentagon officials that the corruption being uncovered was the work of a few isolated individuals.
