— Chait remarks, "Hertzberg doesn't really explain this assertion and I don't understand it".
After quoting this passage from my Comment — — Chait remarks, "Hertzberg doesn't really explain this assertion and I don't understand it".
How to explain this turnaround?
How to explain this pattern?
When pressed by a student to explain his assertion that the oil had disappeared, Hayward launched into a technical discussion about the abundance of bacteria in the Gulf of Mexcio, which combined with chemical dispersants, had caused the oil to break up very quickly.
In a signed statement, Mayor Lee asserted that during a meeting on March 19 he gave Mr. Mirkarimi ample opportunity to explain himself, an assertion Mr. Mirkarimi called bogus.
Lord Justice Leveson said he would probably call the then editor, Peter Hill, to explain Fagge's assertion that he was "obsessed with the McCann story".
Starting from that same assumption, Bach 1975 contends that 'I order you to clean the kitchen' is an assertion, and proceeds to explain on this basis how the speaker is indirectly also issuing an order.
