Plaintiff Offers Concession At 'Da Vinci Code' Trial As the lawsuit over "The Da Vinci Code" resumed yesterday in High Court in London, one plaintiff conceded that he had overstated his assertion in a pretrial statement that Dan Brown, the author of the international best seller, had taken 15 points central to his plot from an earlier book, The Associated Press reported.
The importance of that assertion cannot be overstated.
When I wrote a few months back that video was the true social networking tool, the assertion seemed maybe overstated.
So too have other loyalists, including key henchmen Haider al-Abadi and Abbas al-Biyati, who have tried to convince viewers that the assertions have been overstated.
A day after Wheeler's statement, he offered his own weak clarification, saying that the show's assertions had been "overstated," but insisting that they contained a core of truth.
I disagree with the assertion that Uber is overstated.
IRS officials sharply disputed the assertion that administration officials have overstated efforts to put the tax cop back on the beat.
Also today, a Congressional committee asked Kenneth L. Lay, Enron's former chairman and chief executive, to explain what Enron did in response to a whistle-blower's assertion last summer that a major division had overstated profits by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Hartog's assertion that the hemodynamic advantages of colloids are overstated [ 9] has been supported by more recent data.
There were also indications that Mr. Ouattara's assertion that his forces control all Ivorian territory were overstated.
I find that the author's assertion that R0>1 is a sufficient condition for a global pandemic to be overstated, however, and I would strongly recommend tempering the language.
