He was interested in assertions that Catholics were not segregated from Protestants, especially in Midwestern cities like Chicago.
"A key distinction in these cases often relates to whether the representations are 'mere puffery,' meaning general assertions like 'best breakfast in town,' which are acceptable under the law, or objectively verifiable assertions like 'guaranteed to reduce your blood pressure by 10percentt,'" Elias said.
To measure the uncertainty of temporal assertions like "3 weeks ago" in clinical texts.
These assertions, like most of the claims in the book, are not backed up by quotes, even anonymous ones, or by any other kinds of references.
Items with non-zero assertions (like "UserIsActive") are preventing sleep.
Not surprisingly, assertions like that have attracted no little controversy.
In like manner, assertions that state consumer protection laws were violated usually fail due to preemption.
Financially, the accusations against the Kids Company are confusing because they are diffuse – a mixture of the open and the tacit, the illegal and the simply not done, intimation crossing assertion like smoke in a saloon bar.
An assertion like this in the context of a debate on trade is laughable.
My guess is that in the pre-Internet era, an assertion like that would simply have sat there; economists would complain about it in the coffee room, but that would be it.
"It would now appear that's assertion, like so much in here, rather than actual documented fact".
