That was a reference to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, although Mr. Obama has recently qualified past assertions he has made about talking with Iran's leaders.
Their impatience was clear by the time Mr Trimble at last began to make his pitch to his party on the IRA's offer, heavily qualified by assertions that he might quit a reinstated Stormont administration if insufficient progress was made on decommissioning.Apprehension over whether the IRA should be trusted is not the only source of unionist concerns ahead of this weekend's vote.
Incurability of type 2 diabetes was qualified through assertions that 'it kills' , requires 'life-long treatment', disables, and that even the best treatments fail.
But to the extent that analysis is about giving voice to conflict and being heard by someone else, Phillips argues, it can be seen as a democratic activity, or, more precisely, perhaps -- he is forever qualifying his assertions this way -- as an investigation of democratic values, including our resistance to them.
If speakers were to epistemically qualify their assertions (e.g., with variants of "I'm pretty sure that p"), they would risk less blame if mistaken, yet their assertions would still display responsiveness to the hearer's informational interest.
But a statement that the commission of inquiry released later in Geneva qualified Ms. Del Ponte's assertions, emphasizing "that it has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in Syria by any parties to the conflict".
A further Apple reference has been added qualifying this assertion.
While he qualifies the assertion by stating the "conflict of interest" may just "appear" to exist, even that qualification goes too far and in so doing, perpetuates the misunderstanding of the general public about why certain battlefield conduct is typically not prosecuted.
The feminine style is more humble; the speaker may qualify an assertion to avoid sounding "uppity". When a woman speaks in a feminine way, she may be talked over, not be heard and not be seen as a leader.
Some responded 'the quality of service is good' without qualifying this assertion.
Still, a theory has gained currency among some conservatives that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is not qualified to be president, assertions that have been widely discredited.
