In particular, he withdrew the assertion that Adam had parents.
But if the judge were to withdraw that assertion, prosecutors could press her to reconsider her broader ruling that Mr. Risen need not answer detailed questions about his sources.
Although there seemed to be no prospect of getting other aspirants for the Presidential nomination to withdraw, the assertion of Mr. Farley that he favored a motion to make the nomination unanimous after a ballot, eased the situation considerably.
Foraker had claimed that the president lacked the authority to discharge the men; to get a resolution passed for an investigatory committee, he had to withdraw that assertion.
On their arrival in April 1927, Sacasa reluctantly accepted a compromise offered by the United States, by which he withdrew his assertion.
During an urgent question in the Commons on the issue, Burnham called on Hunt to withdraw his assertion that the guidance was local, given that it came from NHS England.
In 2011 the 400 μg/L drinking-water guideline for manganese was withdrawn with the assertion that since "this health-based value is well above concentrations of manganese normally found in drinking-water, it is not considered necessary to derive a formal guideline value" [ 1].
This assertion was in turn withdrawn with due apologies after readers pointed out that the claim that Plato's real name was Aristokles had no reliable basis in fact.
This article was amended on 4 May 2018 to make prominent note of the fact that the OPCW had withdrawn Ahmet Üzümcü's assertion about the quantity of novichok used in the Skripal poisoning.
Similarly, in 2011 the 70 μg/L WHO health-based drinking-water guideline for molybdenum was withdrawn with the assertion that molybdenum "occurs in drinking-water at concentrations well below those of health concern"; therefore, "it is not considered necessary to set a formal guideline value" [ 1].
But investigators hope that the Obama administration will open the filing cabinets and withdraw assertions of executive privilege that Bush officials have invoked to keep from testifying.
