1.   A Genentech spokesman said that assertion was based on private conversations between the prosecutors and company attorneys.

2.   But they base this assertion not on culture but on biology.

3.   But when challenged to document this increase, Mr. Cunningham acknowledged that his assertion was largely based on anecdotal evidence from canvassing people in his district near San Diego.

4.   Even so, Rampton said that Irving has persisted in basing his assertions on the Leuchter report, even though the historian knows it is faulty.

5.   However, Irving acknowledged in court that he based this assertion on a misreading of a handwritten note from Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler.

6.   However, it later admitted that assertion was based on what it was told by the R.T. Vanderbilt Co., its talc supplier.

7.   Jefferson says his assertions are based on interviews with Legge and research in Berlin.

8.   Stouffer bases her assertion on a comparison between some pictures of Harry Potter and her own drawing of Larry.

9.   The assertions are based in part on five hours of underwater video now being examined by an investigative commission headed by the deputy prime minister, Ilya Klebanov.

10.   The associations base their assertions on the need to protect their trademarks.