As it grows harder to comprehend complex subjects — climate change leaps to mind — they seize upon assertions, however bogus, that corroborate what they wish to believe.
Statements from both Mrs. Grimaldi and Mr. Tsoulos cast some doubt upon this assertion.
Prosecutors wrote that they believed Mr. Harris's defense would center upon the assertion that he believed he was being permitted by the police to walk on the roadway, but added that they thought old Twitter messages might show otherwise.
Mitchell likewise offers meticulous documentary evidence in Roger Casement, but within a comparatively fluid and clear narrative history that depends problematically upon his assertion that the British government, from the Cabinet to the National Archive, has pursued an insidious, sweeping policy of individual defamation over the past century.
In his reply, he expands upon the assertion.
The argument builds upon the assertion that the small effective population size of this new 'prekaryotic chimera' precluded elimination of invading group II mobile elements by purifying selection.
The public, however, do not have this luxury: not everybody has been extensively educated to critically appraise the data upon which assertions are made.
In a blow to his successors, he cast doubt upon their assertions that Co-op bank can maintain its ethical stance despite the involvement of hedge funds.
The following February, Roosevelt granted broad powers to the War Department to carry out internment, acting upon the assertions of Gen. John L. DeWitt, the Army general in charge of the West Coast, who believed that Japanese Americans were more loyal to Japan than to the United States.
While serving the purpose of an initial inquiry, further work is needed to confirm and expand upon the assertions of the service providers interviewed here.
