Besides, those who have first heard the pleas of our adversaries will be more likely to credit the assertions which we are going to make.
Instead, Judge Scheindlin credited the defense team's assertion that the agents had threatened Mr. Bout, insinuating that he would face "disease, hunger, heat and rape" in Thai jails, where he would face abandonment if he failed to cooperate with the American agents.
Whether or not Mr. Levy gets credit, his assertions may help convince people that Banksy's film is legitimate.
It's hard, then, to credit Ruth's assertion that she's unable to shake her boyfriend's mistaken belief that he once killed a woman.
Fehr recalled that Miller often said the "first key event" in the players' assertion of labor rights ought not to be credited to the union.
Although we credited the newspaper, the article went on to restate many of its assertions about the scale of the trafficking problem as uncontested fact.
Anthropogenic bird foods are frequently credited with affecting avian population dynamics, but few studies have tested this assertion over broad spatial scales.
Soy foods have been credited with all sorts of health benefits, but perhaps none so appealing as this assertion.
The law firm Harbottle & Lewis says it finds it "hard to credit" his assertion that NI rested on a letter it provided apparently confirming there was no evidence of hacking beyond Clive Goodman.
He agrees with Credit Writedowns' assertion that the US and the UK, as sovereigns that hold debt in their own currencies, are likely to try the inflationary route to mitigate the mounting debt burdens (see "Inflation: The strategy that dare not state its name").
In a disappointingly removed and hesitant way, Swift's team has denied that she approved the lyric, an assertion that West has already contradicted, even crediting Swift with the idea for the words.
