But the administration is asking Congress to make a decision to go to war based on conflicting statements, angry assertions and assumptions based on speculation.
Senator Xenophon said that Saxton had been in touch with the office of the Prime Minister, and had offered to provide additional statements and testimony regarding the assertions made in the Australian Senate.
Nike's challenged statements, including assertions that its business practices were ethical and that its employment policies provided economic and political benefits in the third world, met all three parts of the test and could incur liability to the extent that they could be proven false or misleading, the California court said.
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For one thing, he predicated his statements on assertions that Israel is violating the agreements, which Israel denies.
It is also possible to deceive using truthful statements that are not assertions, such as jokes, ironic statements, and even the lines of a play delivered on stage, so long as the intention to deceive can be formed.
The video, titled "America's Broken Promise," features a mash-up of clips of Mr. Obama's statements and newscasters questioning his assertion, as foreboding music plays in the background.
Successful prosecutions of long-ago crimes are often viewed as political statements, as poignant assertions that times have changed.
Thanks to the generous protection of U.S. libel laws, such derogatory statements–or any assertions made in civil pleadings are, within limits, privileged reporting.
Haji-Ioannou and his easyGroup had instigated a series of "increasingly personalised attacks", Rake declared, "involving a number of inaccurate and misleading statements, including inappropriate and defamatory assertions and innuendo".
