Rather, it contends that Brazil is price gouging by selling its product below "fair market value," an assertion that shrimp farmers here dismiss as not reflecting market realities.
Yet we're asked to accept at face value their assertion that it was he more than any other leader who was responsible for the military intervention in Afghanistan, the repressive Soviet reaction to the rise of Solidarity in Poland and even the mysterious "suicide" in 1982 of Brezhnev's brother-in-law, Gen. Semyon Tsvigun, who was Mr. Andropov's deputy at the K.G.B.
Ms. Denton and Mr. Morris frequently accept, at face value, the assertions of their sources, however dubious or biased those sources might be.
Freeland is a bit too inclined to accept at face value the assertions of the fabulously rich, apparently confident in her ability to sort out speech served up in the service of commercial interest from genuine sentiment.
It also should be seen as a marker of its times as it at once explains how Obama sought legal grounds by which to justify methods that skirt the Constitution and takes at face value the assertions of those who claim to have done a conscientious analysis of the laws and the Constitution without prejudice.
It also deals with time values and assertions as well as how to specify composite values such as collection, interval, and tuples in UML models.
Or second, we might take at face value the Soviet assertion that Russia cannot control Castro.
It is introduced into standard colorimetric defined by three parameters (CIELab, RGB, HSB) as the fourth value with the assertion that there is no correlation between them and parameter Z.
But the dissenters objected strenuously to that principle's application in this case, because they said the majority had done little more than accept at face value the Boy Scouts' assertion of the central importance of their opposition to homosexuality.
Because the Court held the probative value of the assertion of privilege to be negligible on the issue of the defendant's credibility, it was "not faced with the necessity of deciding whether Raffel, has been stripped of vitality by the later Johnson case, supra, or of otherwise reexamining Raffel". Id., at 421, 77 S.Ct., at 982.
The Socialist Serge Letchimy, from Martinique, questioned the interior minister and close Sarkozy ally, Claude Guéant, over his controversial comments this weekend that "not all civilisations are of equal value", and his assertion that some civilisations, namely France's, are worth more than others.
