The discussion of each approach examines its chief assertions, its answers to questions identified above, leading arguments in its favor, and its chief difficulties.
"The chief assertions [critics] make are that the hyperbolic use of 'literally' is a misuse of the word or a mistake for 'figuratively,'" the usage guide notes.
A senior geneticist and a bioethicist warned on Friday that they fear "rogue scientists" operating outside the bounds of law, and agreed with a US intelligence chief's assertion this week that gene editing technology could have huge, and potentially dangerous, consequences.
A professor found that contrary to the chief justice's assertion, judges' rulings are strongly correlated with the party of the president who appointed them.
The report would contradict Chief Bernard C. Parks's assertion that the killing was justified, and the witness accounts could raise doubts about the officer's concern for his safety.
The Chief Constable's assertion is not a revelatory one.
Mayor Riordan offered a partisan shot in response to today's verdicts, repeating Chief Park's assertions that the police deserve credit for exposing the corruption rather than criticism for permitting what appears to have been a culture of corruption to flourish.
Or consider BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith's assertion that his site "doesn't do clickbait," a statement that may have set a media industry record for number of eyebrows raised.
Because the Code has never been formally adopted by the Court, it may be followed -- or not -- at the whim of individual justices, the chief justice's assertions that justices are always models of ethical behavior notwithstanding.
Asked about Mr. Beck's assertion, Kenneth Becker, chief of the World Trade Center unit for the city's corporation counsel, said yesterday that it would be inappropriate to comment, because there was a pending motion in the case.
The court was also unusually blunt in responding to the assertion by Chief Justice Roy S. Moore in court papers in the case that he does not recognize the authority of the federal court in this matter.
