But Vince Wladika, the senior vice president of media relations for Fox Sports, calls such talk unfounded, pointing out that Fox carries games locally for 26 of the 29 N.B.A. teams (with average contracts lasting seven years) and that Murdoch is also a minority owner of the Knicks and thus in both instances would be competing against himself by trying to form a new league.
Lewis also rejects the criticism as unfounded and points out that he's worked closely with Unilever's retail customers around the world, and understands grocers intimately.
British officials last week said the NGOs' anxiety is unfounded, and pointed out that no one has been prosecuted by the US or the UK under the legislation.
Tom Bruce, Hounslow's cabinet member for education, described the suggestion of "predetermination" as a "very serious and unfounded allegation", pointing out that planning authorities were separate legally from councils and that the Niskham application had been discussed in a public meeting lasting more than four hours.
Omidyar also described claims Icahn made about Andreessen and Cook as "unfounded" and pointed to eBay's previous responses to the specifics of Icahn's letters.
Worries over new technologies destroying jobs have become chronic -- and up to this point, unfounded.
And I am long on human creativity". Worries over new technologies destroying jobs have become chronic -- and up to this point, unfounded.
"On the other hand, if it is an across-the-board crusade for more demand, then I believe that the German reluctance to that is not entirely unfounded". He also pointed out that for the US, as a reserve currency, it was easier to be relaxed about big expansions of demand.
Sri Lankan officials deny the charges, which they say are exaggerated, unfounded and biased, and point to Rajapaksa's successive electoral victories.
A possible criticism of this study is that any comparative analysis on OS might be confounded by permitting patients to switch from masitinib to sunitinib following study termination; however, this stand point is unfounded based on both ethical and pragmatic considerations.
In life as in detective fiction, such fears are not unfounded, for as Summerscale points out, "the classic country-house murder is an assault on propriety, an aggressive exposure of base needs and desires".
