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Moreover, China’s increasingly strong commitment to limit and then reduce its emissions is more important than any American backsliding, and Germany’s ability to combine stunning export success with rapid growth of renewables proves the absurdity of the claim that building a low-carbon economy threatens competitiveness.
Critics claim that the fiscal adjustment was too slow for comfort, yet markets seem unconcerned that in neighboring Brazil the headline budget gap is 8% of GDP.
What sort of claim do those people have?
We must demonstrate the loving nature of true faith; otherwise, religion will be defined by a battle in which extremists seize control of faith communities and secularists claim that such attitudes are intrinsic to religion.
In other words, there is no basis to claim that Putin’s approval rating is declining.
Moreover, Iran’s claim to leadership in the Muslim world is being undermined by the conflict in Iraq, where Iran supports the Shia militias that are killing Sunnis.
The president could therefore claim to speak for a majority of Indians, rather than a majority of members of parliament.
The country has lost its credibility with the United Nations and in the Middle East; its claim to a permanent seat on the Security Council has just been trashed for good; and one really must fear the worst for Europe.
That is why Abe can get away with appointing cronies to the board of NHK, the national broadcasting company, who openly claim that the military brothels were an entirely private enterprise and that the Nanking Massacre was a foreign fabrication.
His claim that he had the “authority to wiretap anyone” has been disputed by US intelligence officials, but the possibility of a rogue analyst abusing his or her position is real.
And the fourth is economic: to lay claim to a larger share of North Sea oil and gas.
The social-welfare state, the nationalists claim, cannot substitute for ethnic identity.
The irony in China’s South China Sea claim is that the Communist Party has fallen into a trap set unintentionally by the Kuomintang, which it defeated in 1949.
And if China has to press this claim in order to appease ultra-nationalist elements, it should do so by deploying diplomats, rather than its military.
But for Europeans who claim equal status with NATO for the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, this is the time to put up or shut up.
Multilateralism is not a product of unsustainable solidarity, as some like to claim; it is the result of an enlightened interpretation of one’s own interests.
Others claim that the government colluded in the disruptions in the Rajya Sabha, because it knew that it could not win the vote; some, preposterously, suggest that the government did not want the bill to pass; still others claim that it would have created such a “weak” Lokpal that it was not worth passing.
Russia and China, which claim to oppose the emergence of a nuclear-armed Iran, are now being pressed to support new, tough sanctions to increase the odds it does not happen.
Many countries claim that their law is based on divine authority, say, the Koran, returning us to the bleak potential for unlimited conflicts over values.
Although some in the British government claim that the case for exiting Europe is the need to avoid costly regulations, the truth is that the minimum wage and other social policies are national – not EU creations.
The only justification for such a long list is that every government could claim to have attained at least one target – a trophy to exhibit at home.
Last month, the IPCC released the full report, together with the data behind this startlingly optimistic claim.
The claim rested on the assumption of a large reduction in global energy use.
When the IPCC first made the claim, global-warming activists and renewable-energy companies cheered.
The Turks claim they have audio and video revealing his death, and Senator Lindsey Graham warned, “If it did happen there would be hell to pay,” while Senator Benjamin Cardin has threatened to target sanctions at senior Saudi officials.
Of the five men appointed to lead the mission to persuade Gbagbo to step down, only two - Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania and South Africa's Jacob Zuma - can claim to have come to power democratically.
The cost is yet another generation of Middle Eastern youth who will believe the worst about the US, no matter how far-fetched the rumor or extreme the claim.
But fear not, claim advocates of unconventional monetary policy.
Notwithstanding Trump’s dubious claim that the Paris agreement saddles the US with “draconian financial and economic burdens,” his decision is particularly strange, given that the agreement is voluntary and non-binding.
Such ideas are reflected in opinions polls in which Europeans claim that Israel and the US are the true dangers to world peace.
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