A retired newspaperman, Mr. O'Shea said that all of his facts were solid, but acknowledged that many of the letters were "barbed".
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was asking for a Security Council resolution saying the talks were on a solid basis, acknowledged that the Bush administration had not achieved its goal of negotiating a two-state solution by the end of 2008.
Beyond the fact that the science is not yet solid, Dr. Clifasefi acknowledged that applying this theory in court might be a stretch.
Finance Minister Pedro Solbes said Monday that the financial sector in Spain was "enormously solid," though he acknowledged that the banks in the country were not immune to the effects of a global economic crisis.
The director of the city's solid waste department, Harry Hayes, acknowledged there was room for improvement, but noted that the voluntary system was "not a government issue".
Dr. Greider acknowledged that solid evidence showed that the 1 percent of people with the shortest telomeres were at an increased risk of certain diseases, particularly bone marrow failure and pulmonary fibrosis, a fatal scarring of the lungs.
Yet Dell and the model it pioneered weren't widely acknowledged as solid winners until 1991.
"We can begin on solid ground by acknowledging that it is wrong to expose people's most intimate moments for no good reason," he wrote.
Somewhere in among the avalanche of graphs, statistics and stories of housing misery that make up Danny Dorling's All That Is Solid, the author acknowledges that he is in good company: the state of housing has formed the basis for recent studies and diatribes authored by everyone from "revolutionaries" to bankers and economists.
Many writers model gaseous mass transfer to, and surface reaction on (or with), a solid sphere without acknowledging that the reaction stoichiometry contradicts the equimolar counterdiffusion (EMCD) assumption that they use in their mass transfer analysis.
