Sentences with phrase «bite on the assertion»

Alas, I wasn't able to get him to bite on the assertion that Obama wouldn't be president without the internet....

Not exact matches

It sounded much more practical than Byrne's assertion that Labour must «move on decisively from the New Labour package, but remain on centre ground,» which came across a little bit like a suggestion that Labour must appear to move on, while actually continuing to tread the same water as 1997.

Well, Eartha certainly fulfills her part of the Sugar relationship with Santa, not only with her panther - like purr (she did play Catwoman on the»60s Batman TV show, after all) but also with her assertions of fidelity to her Daddy, maybe with a little bit of veiled threat at the end:

When an angry fan, hungry for Marvel vs. Capcom 3 claimed that the port would not sell on the Capcom - Unity forums, Christian Svensson, Corporate Officer and Vice-President of Strategic Planning & Business Development of Capcom stepped in to say, «Your assertion that MvC2 wont» sell is a bit off.

Since these things always seem to happen on twitter these days, McCarroll tweeted that Bleszinski's assertion was «a bit presumptuous,» as staff members left Boss Key to work for Epic for their own reasons.

I don't know, I'm not part of that conspiracy, and I see a lot of assertions on here and elsewhere by people who imply they are smart, or at least smart enough to know more on this issue than the climate scientists who actually professionally study it, who throw around large highfalutin science terms, but that repeatedly misconstrue the basic climate change issue itself, conflate the process of science with Climate Change refutation, seem to have an extensively poor understanding of the issue, and take small select bits of data as part of the ongoing total picture of increasing overall corroboration, to falsely equate that with a flaw in Climate Change theory itself, or as a referendum on it.

You set up false dilemmas (fight denialists OR effect change) to make it look like we can't do more than one thing at a time, then apply spin and misrepresentations («[denialists] are of a very insignificant nature» (note who's listening to them) «more effort is being expended now on a few denalists than warranted» (note: unsubstantiated assertion), «Is the question about a few snakes biting a few people or doing far more» (shorter: «a few snake bites are OK!»)-RRB-

I sat disappointed in silence instead of challenging my colleague on his assertions about women or over the appropriateness of his very public tale telling and I bit my tongue at the urge to correct the man on my other side on both his assumption about what type of bucks I made and whether or not I was a scumbag.

Even though the device features an edge - to - edge display — the largest screen ever on an iPhone, coming in at 5.8 - inches — KGI believes the notch makes that assertion a bit misleading.