"The assertion of executive privilege in this case was extreme, and the secrecy that was asserted by the federal government with respect to its action here is really hard to stomach when you believe that this should be a democratic country," said Pipkin.
"The assertion of executive privilege in this case was extreme and the secrecy that was asserted by the federal government with respect to its action here are really hard to stomach when you believe that this should be a democratic country," said Pipkin.
The Sars outbreak of 2003 was asserted by one expert as having "a 25% chance of killing tens of millions".
First, the United Nations didn't "create" Israel — sovereignty was asserted by its provisional government at the termination of British authority in the territory — nor indeed was the 1947 General Assembly partition resolution even legally binding.
The long period of denial, in which it was asserted by Rebekah Brooks, for example, that "The Guardian coverage, we believe, has substantially and likely deliberately misled the British public" is now viewed as a misjudgment.
The accuracy of the methods was asserted by comparing the results to a set of directions estimated visually and assumed to be the ground truth.
The effectiveness of the coupling reaction and purity of the block copolymers was asserted by chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques as well as their thermal behaviour was studied by thermogravimetric analysis, differential scanning calorimetry and optical microscopy.
The claim to France was only nominal, and was asserted by every English King from Edward III to George III, regardless of the amount of French territory actually controlled.
Alkan's technical mastery of the keyboard was asserted by the publication in 1838 of the Trois grandes études (originally without opus number, later republished as Op.
In the Experiment 1, a random choice was asserted by the null hypothesis, i.e., the expected (theoretical) frequency was 1∶1.
Fulfillment of normal log distribution was asserted by the Shapiro-Francia test [ 38].
