"I don't think this was aberrational at all," said Paul Marks, a retired police captain in Los Angeles, in response to assertions by some police officials that the abuses were limited to the Rampart Division, a station west of downtown.
A response to assertions that resources are too limited in many humanitarian crises to consider palliative care is that failure to acknowledge and prepare for palliative care needs may in fact diminish, rather than support, the effective use of limited resources in such settings.
But in his memoir, "I'm a Lucky Guy," published privately in 1998, Mr. Cullman did not dwell very much on the issues of smoking and health and revealed nothing at all about what may have been his private responses to assertions that cigarette smoke hastens mortality.
In response to defense assertions that military commission participants are under pressure from superiors to get war crimes cases moving quickly, a spokeswoman for the Office of Military Commissions, Lt. Catheryne Pully, said, "Our interest is in making sure the process is done correctly, not quickly".
In general, my response to such assertions is that they suffer from the fallacy of misplaced concreteness: an economy, even that of a small nation, is a very complex thing, with more possibilities than a casual top-down overview can reveal.
George explained that it was her own decision to leave the show, in response to the assertions that her departure was done to "de-gay" Grey's Anatomy.
Schneckenburger wrote "The Watch on the Rhine" in a specific patriotic response to French assertions that the Rhine was France's "natural" eastern boundary.
In response to an assertion by Mr. Paul that he had voted to fund Planned Parenthood, Mr. Santorum said: "As Congressman Paul knows, I opposed Title X funding.
In response to an assertion by Ron Paul that he had voted to fund Planned Parenthood, Mr. Santorum said: "As Congressman Paul knows, I opposed Title X funding.
Mr. Amis suggests that by looking at one individual death -- namely, his sister's -- he is delivering a kind of response to the assertion attributed to Stalin that "a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic".
Quayle's most painful moment came when Bentsen gave a withering response to his assertion that he had as much experience as John Kennedy had when he sought the Presidency.
