Sentences with phrase «on his assertion in»

A day later, the president doubled down on his assertion in a tweet that kept trade officials shaking their heads.

[More detail on this assertion in the May, 2008, e.politics article «Has Facebook Jumped the Shark as a Political Tool?»]

Here's what I in my ignorance assume to be an informatic (you are the first person I've run across that uses the term as a noun, but I assume that is because you are trend - setter) that might shed new light on the assertions in your post above:

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The U.S. intelligence community's previous assertions that Russia interfered in the election, based on classified evidence never revealed to the public, were easily dismissed by Trump and his allies.

Often, these skills are also basic building blocks for many lines of work,» he notes, before doubling down on his assertion that statistics can come in very, very handy in many lines of work.

On Capitol Hill, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe strongly disputed the White House's assertion that Comey had been fired in part because he had lost the confidence of the FBI's rank - and - file.

His assertions came as Comey's temporary replacement joined in, contradicting other administration statements on the snowballing controversy.

That account was questioned in 2013 and 2014 by investigators working for the Senate Intelligence Committee, which also issued a lengthy report in December that challenged the CIA's assertions on the effectiveness of torture.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shrugged off assertions that proliferation of hoax news stories on Facebook influenced the outcome of the U.S. presidential election Thursday during an on - stage interview at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay.

Most notably, the upcoming OIG report detailed by The Times stands in contrast to Trump's assertion, given its focus on McCabe's authorization of disclosures that ultimately resulted in a negative story about Clinton.

On top of that, political opinion pieces on Medium will be getting fact - checked, thanks to a partnership between PolitiFact and the site that will see «annotations» or in - line comments added to those pieces where factual assertions are madOn top of that, political opinion pieces on Medium will be getting fact - checked, thanks to a partnership between PolitiFact and the site that will see «annotations» or in - line comments added to those pieces where factual assertions are madon Medium will be getting fact - checked, thanks to a partnership between PolitiFact and the site that will see «annotations» or in - line comments added to those pieces where factual assertions are made.

Lyons assertion came as part of a discussion about the government's approach to Brexit, and the growing likelihood of a so - called «hard Brexit» — leaving the EU without a trade deal or access to the single market, in return for gaining control on immigration.

Be it with nonsensical assertions or statements (which either have zero basis in fact or reality, or are just a one - dimensional, self - promotional view on things), or random what - about ism arguments (one response to the launch of a social enterprise incubator in Dubai was essentially, «What about Yemen?»)

And in June 2016, the US told Russia that it was planning on continuing its military patrols in the Black Sea over Russian assertions that such a move was harming regional security.

The outspoken founder of Kynikos Associates has heavily criticized Valeant for its general approach to business as a drug maker — including his assertion that the company has relied on acquisitions rather than R&D in order to grow its pipeline.

Trudeau's concern about an untargeted reduction in the small business tax rate being used by wealthy Canadians to save on their tax bills is warranted, in Wolfson's view, but one could quibble about his assertion that a «large percentage» of small businesses are doing so.

Among them: assertions that Hogan filed the lawsuit to hide racist comments made on video, that the woman who Hogan had sex with knew it was being filmed, and that Hogan participated in an FBI investigation and sting because he was being extorted.

This assertion had three components: (1) The commenter estimated the cost over 60 days to be $ 250 million based on the on - going cost from the final 2016 RIA of $ 1.5 billion per year, (2) that cost savings over a 10 - year period were not provided to allow comparison to the negative effects on investors that would occur over the ten year period, (3) that industry cost savings were not projected out over 10 years using returns on capital in a similar manner to investors» lost earnings.

Uber executive William Barnes contested Commissioner Avakian's findings, arguing that it was «on an erroneous and incomplete picture of how drivers use the Uber application in Oregon and as such, is filled with factual errors and assertions that are simply wrong.»]

First, I focused on how the advice and analysis of the accountants, advisors, and financial planners of hundreds of thousands of Canada's small business owners are in stark contrast to the assertions of the government, specifically including the prime minister and the minister of finance.

In this, our final installment on common criticisms of ESOPs — and why they are wrong — we'll look at the assertion that ESOPs are not real ownership.

Interestingly, though, Myerson's ridiculous assertion in a roundabout way shows how you change culture... In this case, Nadella effectively shunted Windows to its own division with all of the company's other non-strategic assets, leaving Myerson and team to come to yesterday's decision on their owin a roundabout way shows how you change culture... In this case, Nadella effectively shunted Windows to its own division with all of the company's other non-strategic assets, leaving Myerson and team to come to yesterday's decision on their owIn this case, Nadella effectively shunted Windows to its own division with all of the company's other non-strategic assets, leaving Myerson and team to come to yesterday's decision on their own.

Saxena informed Kalra on ninth April that these funds had been misplaced because of some unknown assault in keeping with the police assertion which says «Because the personal keys are stored with Dr Amitabh Saxena, we really feel that he's making a false story to divert our consideration and he may need a job to play on this complete incident.»

The Nunes memo, in short, is long on assertions and short on evidence — and by the end, it has fatally undermined its own reason for existing, providing political ammunition against the Russia investigation.

But let's assume that its core factual assertions — that the FBI heavily relied on the Steele dossier, and that it didn't mention his funding sources in the FISA warrant — are true.

It shows that assertions questioning the capacity of the FEDERAL government to pay for programs, usually prefaced with the call for â $ ˜â $ ˜adult conversationsâ $ ™ â $ ™, and couched in terms such as fiscal sustainability, solvency, and unfunded liabilities, are red - herrings that will lead to needless reductions and privatizations of public programs in health care, elder care, pensions and so on.»

However, I'll ignore the other flaws and zoom in on the Ted Butler assertion that constitutes the core of the article.

BlackBerry surprised Wall Street by getting its bottom line back into the black in the fourth quarter, but sales shrunk significantly again, putting in question CEO John Chen's assertion that the company's turnaround is on track.

So I simply can't understand / accept how people are agreeing that Bill Nye «hit the nail on the head» in his assertions.

I think if tf was honest and told me that he can't prove to me his God even though he may know the truth of it in his heart, then I could accept that, and he might also then see he shouldn't be trying so hard to put that cart before the horse regarding these absolute assertions on morality.

In these days of rival grand theories» superstrings, the inflationary model, et al.» competing on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal for the status of last word on the ultimate, Davies» book might appear to be just another technician's confident assertion that science will soon have all the answers.

colin: «Nah, I was responding collectively to the numerous assertions on the blog by the believers in the varios sky - fairies that atheists are somehow immoral.

In a philosophical setting, if challenged on an assertion you made, you must prove it.

Rather than assuming and stating as fact that BC is dogmatic in his assertions because he secretly harbors doubts which he is attempting to either drown out by increasing his volume or find answers for by remaining on this site, NP asks him if that might be the case.

Nah, I was responding collectively to the numerous assertions on the blog by the believers in the varios sky - fairies that atheists are somehow immoral.

In a statement responding to the blog, the school said, «While the blog post presents a limited perspective on the assertions raised, Moody is engaged in a comprehensive review of these matters to confirm that past events have been properly cared for and that any other matters are handled in an appropriate manner.&raquIn a statement responding to the blog, the school said, «While the blog post presents a limited perspective on the assertions raised, Moody is engaged in a comprehensive review of these matters to confirm that past events have been properly cared for and that any other matters are handled in an appropriate manner.&raquin a comprehensive review of these matters to confirm that past events have been properly cared for and that any other matters are handled in an appropriate manner.&raquin an appropriate manner.»

But if he and Polanyi are right about nihilism (Polanyi's «empty self - assertion») being at the heart of the mentality of a culture dominated by Scientific Positivism then its occurrence is obviously not dependent on the specific form of the doctrine, be it Marxist, Fascist or whatever, in which it is expressed.

Through much of the commentary on the death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn last August, there was the repeated intimation - and sometimes vulgar assertion - that, after his return to Russia in 1994, he descended into crotchety old age and irrelevance.

You have thus far completely refused all questions given to you in attempts to discuss the issue, have made absolutely zero effort to prove your assertion that homosexual activity is sinful, and have chosen instead to fall back on theatrical bravado.

For example, he declares that St. Thomas's assertion that the poor man was justified in stealing must now be more widely applied to classes and nations: «The proletarian nations have a claim on the goods of the rich nation next door.»

If there is no univocal element in the assertion that God is cause of the world, on what basis can one say that the perfection of the world is even virtually (that is, as cause) present in God?

On the other hand, in the legendary cases of «scientific martyrs», such as Giordano Bruno († 1600), the reality was often that they were not tried for their scientific claims, but for other heterodox assertions.

Left alone like this, these passages would seem to give the lie to my assertion of balance in Newman's sermons on sin, as if all he had to say was that the world was riding a toboggan downhill to hell without help from God, and this despite our infirmities bequeathed to us by our first parents.

In the same paper, commenting on the final pages of Process and Reality, Cobb wrote «some of us think, following Whitehead here, that John's assertion that «God is love» is a profound metaphysical truth.»

But it is clear that the shouldering of the accident of his destiny in the facing of death is really the same radical self - assertion on man's part.

On the one hand, James is uncompromising in his assertion that making distinctions between people based on their wealth is a violation of the order to love your neighbor as yourselOn the one hand, James is uncompromising in his assertion that making distinctions between people based on their wealth is a violation of the order to love your neighbor as yourselon their wealth is a violation of the order to love your neighbor as yourself.

From Origen's hope that salvation will eventually be received by all, to Karl Rahner's assertion that other religions can serve as pointers to Christ, to Clark Pinnock's biblical case for a more optimistic view of salvation, I've found that tucked away in the dusty corners of Christian libraries is a wealth of scholarship on the subject.

Despite the assertion that God has favored Christians living in this present moment of history with the key to decode the prophetic ciphers, millennialists are unable to agree on how to read the message.

(1) On page 163, in discussing the scope of the divine actual world, Kraus tells us that «some Whiteheadian scholars, notably Charles Hartshorne, have rejected Whitehead's assertion that God is «always in concrescence and never in the past» (PR 47) and replaced it with an interpretation of God as a personal order of divine occasions.»

The evidence for this assertion is scattered throughout the Wesley corpus but is best summed up in his sermon on «Catholic Spirit» and in his open «Letter to a Roman Catholic.»