While we cannot eliminate speculation in capital markets, the very existence of practices such as high frequency trading undermines the assertion that investments are primarily about the long-term economic value of the asset.
Another commissioner said that the incident totally undermined the assertion by Mr. Levin and Mr. Case in their testimony to Congress that they would never be able to exclude the rivals because viewers would revolt.
Earlier this year, urging the full court to take the case, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that Montana's historical experience — and the country's over the last two years — undermined the assertion in the Citizens United ruling that corporate expenditures do not give rise to corruption or its appearance.
Opponents say the involvement of civil servants who provided him with data to back up his case undermines the assertion that his was an independent conclusion.
But Robin Shattock, an immunologist at St. George's University of London who coordinates the European Enterprise network on vaccines and microbicides, notes that the study does not rule out the possibility that GML has surfactant activity against the AIDS virus, which would undermine the assertion that protection occurred because of a dampened immune response.
Mr. Adler uncovered a long-forgotten letter from Hill's sweetheart that said that he had been shot by a rival for her affections, undermining the prosecution's key assertion.
Government lawyers introduced what they contend is damaging evidence from internal Visa and MasterCard documents and from letters and depositions that they say undermine the companies' assertions of broad and vigorous competition.
Gradually, the authority of a wrathful God is undermined by the assertion of human accountability.
Whetstone's blog post poked fun at Thomson's assertion that by undermining the "basic business model of professional content creators" such as News Corp, Google was helping create a "less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue", with the result that "intemperate trends" across Europe would proliferate.
Most of the detained journalists have been released, but even so, the crackdown added a martial note to Egypt's transition, seeming to undermine the military's assertion that it intended to stay out of politics.
