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Their embrace of autonomy and mobility risks putting them in conflict with a law-enforcement establishment and media that still view women through a pre-feminist lens: “good girls” who stay at home should not be raped, while “bad girls” who stake a
claim
to public space are fair game.
The question he asked of his opponents was: “What must they believe in order to
claim
that persistent mass unemployment is impossible, so that government ‘stimulus’ to raise the employment level could do no good?”
Even after the violent dismemberment of multiethnic Yugoslavia, none of the successor states can
claim
to be wholly homogeneous.
Putin can manipulate Ukraine not because there is a shred of credibility to his
claim
that the Russian minority there faces persecution, but because Ukraine’s corrupt democracy failed to build a truly self-sustaining nation.
Those who
claim
that contagion from a Greek exit would drag others into the crisis are also in denial.
Yet the members of my party, Fidesz, were convinced that our
claim
for a free Hungary was legitimate, and we were proven right by History.
In August, Russia submitted a
claim
under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea that would vastly extend its territorial shelf in the Arctic Ocean, potentially fueling conflict with other claimants.
Assuming the PBOC follows through, China can more credibly
claim
that its currency is freely usable – or at least that it is moving in that direction.
The occupation would end only when Pakistan formally relinquished its
claim
to Kashmir and dismantled all terrorist training camps operating within its borders.
Even so, Italian populists are simply wrong to
claim
that Italy is absorbing a disproportionate and unfair share of asylum seekers.
A new M5S/League government would most likely demand changes to the EU’s Dublin Regulation, according to which the EU member state where an asylum seeker first sets foot is usually responsible for processing his or her
claim.
Moreover, the
claim
that Italy has been barred from running higher deficits to stimulate growth is simply false.
Much of the army sympathized with Machar, but in January 2014, Uganda sent troops into South Sudan to prevent Kiir’s downfall (a
claim
the Ugandan government initially denied).
As political reform achieves results, Israel will no longer be able to
claim
that it is the only democracy in the Middle East; with conditions changing on the ground, it will be increasingly difficult to ignore Palestinians’ demand for independence.
Those who
claim
that redistribution can adequately address this problem must address the fact that the “losers” of free trade have so far received little, if any, compensation.
Trickle-down economics, they claim, will ensure that, ultimately, the entire population benefits economically.
Will we be able to
claim
that austerity was a success if, for example, a large eurozone economy like France fails to grow?
The ICJ, which instead deals with controversies between states, was faced with Bosnia’s
claim
that Serbia was responsible for the Srebrenica massacre.
When this happens, seed is transformed from being a common good into being the “intellectual property” of companies such as Monsanto, for which the corporation can
claim
limitless profits through royalty payments.
This is why the suicides are most prevalent in the cotton belt on which the seed industries’
claim
is rapidly becoming a stranglehold.
Instead, it ruled on a minor side issue that many
claim
was based on a retrospective law.
The Kim dynasty’s main
claim
to legitimacy is Juche, the regime’s official ideology, which stresses national self-reliance to the point of autarky.
In a recent memoir, Gareth Evans, a former Australian foreign minister and the principal author of the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine that is now the basis of international thinking on when a war of humanitarian intervention is justifiable, has dismissed that
claim.
If Bulgaria sends this man back to Turkmenistan – where he faces certain torture and the threat of a brutal death – our
claim
to be part of a democratic, rights-respecting Europe will ring hollow.
But there is no empirical or theoretical evidence to support this
claim.
Trump will rely on the standard Republican
claim
that the tax cuts will “pay for themselves” or lead to rapid growth.
For example, according to the IPCC, sea levels will rise by a relatively manageable 18-59 centimeters (7-23 inches) by the end of the century, whereas news organizations and activists regularly
claim
that we should expect sea levels to rise by meters.
It is a sad conclusion to a presidency, launched six-months ago, with Blair’s
claim
that he was a “passionate pro-European”.
Similarly, new reserves "discovered" by Shell to enable it to press a
claim
for the Reserves Addition Bonus was a key source of company profits until 1999, when a new government reviewed the Memorandum of Understanding.
And it is still common to hear autocratic leaders who inherited parts of the Western empires
claim
that democracy is all well and good, but the people are not yet ready for it.
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