This latter assertion is uncontroversial; the former is open to question.
"Senior government officials announced flatly...that it is safe to eat fish and shrimp caught in the 78percentt of federal waters in the Gulf that are open to fishing - an assertion reinforced by photo-ops of President Obama eating seafood during a visit to the Gulf".
We would welcome a serious discussion of the costs, rather than mere assertions, and are open to new information, either from Trump or from experts in construction engineering who have crunched the numbers.
England sprung a major surprise in their team selection for the second warm-up match of the Ashes tour in Tasmania to confirm Alastair Cook's pre-match assertion that "we are open to all possibilities" before the first Test in Brisbane.
For after all, if truth is a norm of assertion, then, if you assert something false, you are open to criticism.
The report carried water for business interests in other ways, sometimes with assertions that seemed evenhanded but were open to question.
While the potential impact of much of the health care law is open for debate, at least one assertion in the ad is false - the notion that Americans would be denied the ability to choose their own doctor.
Despite Major Joseph Bernadel's repeated assertions that "Haiti is open for business," the question remained, "open for business for whom?" Will the focus be on the impoverished Haitian population, or will disaster capitalism take hold as foreign investors take their aid money and run?
The government needs to go beyond its simple assertions that the United Kingdom will be "open for business," the committee says, and "articulate an ambitious vision for science".
That last assertion, however, is also open to debate.
Assertion is generally thought of being open, explicit and direct, as opposed for instance to implying something without explicitly saying it.
