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Citizens who are led by fear are “slaves,” in bondage to irrational passions, and thus willing to give themselves over to those who
claim
to know best how to achieve personal (and national!)
As a result, governments can
claim
a powerful legitimacy in embarking on reform efforts.
What I cannot accept is for somebody who offers no solutions to
claim
that those of us who do are “talking through our hats.”
Political parties
claim
to embody ideas and worldviews, but in many ways they are simply self-perpetuating money machines.
Many commentators
claim
that Americans Elect will simply take votes from the incumbents but have no lasting impact.
Its plan is cunning: the original funders are being asked for loans, not donations; that way, they will have no further
claim
on Americans Elect after they are repaid.
Russia and China dislike the United States’
claim
to global leadership, enjoy tweaking its tail whenever they can, want greater regional influence, and (like the US itself) periodically turn their back on cooperative multilateralism.
Despite his murky profile, Putin's most potent
claim
to fame – and to power – is a dour toughness.
Many even
claim
that Iraq’s Shia are al-‘Alqami’s descendants, and that Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s Prime Minister, is his modern incarnation.
But to what extent can “Abenomics”
claim
credit?
Greater Europe would thus be able to
claim
a leading role in addressing international issues.
A survey published on a Web site associated with Hamas claimed credit for killing 54% of all the Israelis who died as a result of Palestinians’ armed struggle, and this body count is Hamas’s
claim
to success.
How will tax revenues be divided between those who
claim
leadership of the resistance and those who
claim
exclusive legitimacy to govern?
The Liberals did so in order to
claim
control of the state and its budget for the nine months that remain before the next presidential election.
Moreover, the
claim
that the ECB’s purchases of asset-backed securities amount to “toxic loans” that transfer risk to German taxpayers is unfounded; after all, there have been almost no defaults since 2008.
So, while Evans is right to
claim
that Australia is among the top two or three countries for official resettlement intake, this does not make Australia one of the more generous countries.
Notwithstanding his call to ban the Koran, Wilders and his admirers
claim
to believe in unfettered free speech as a Western birthright.
They
claim
that it would improve the US trade balance, while boosting domestic production, investment, and employment.
A poll of Trump supporters found that 66% believe that Obama is a Muslim, and 61% that he was not born in the US (a
claim
that Trump continued to trumpet long after it had been disproved).
And now it can even
claim
a kind of moral high ground.
This flies in the face of conventional thinking, which continues to
claim
that mandating carbon reductions – through cap-and-trade or a carbon tax – is the only way to combat climate change.
The company could not
claim
that it had prevented dangerous planes from flying, and it would find few customers, even if its flights were much cheaper than anyone else’s.
Across university campuses, particularly in the US but also in Britain, students
claim
the right to deny others free speech or to rewrite history that offends them – a complete denial of what universities should be all about.
This
claim
has provided the Kremlin with a ready-made justification for destabilizing neighboring countries like Ukraine and supporting secessionist movements from Moldova to Georgia, while openly calling for the suppression of “color revolutions” in its near-abroad.
But the second part of his
claim
– that “there will be lasting peace” – neglects the entire history of Russia’s relationship with the West.
Of course, if that inhabitant already owned a house there that they can sell, they may regard the price increase as a windfall that they can
claim
by departing.
Renewed capital controls, they claim, would “fragment” the global financial market, undermining its ability to allocate capital efficiently.
Those who
claim
otherwise may well fail to appreciate fully the exceptional nature of the current situation.
For example, though China said little in public about Russia’s invasion and dismemberment of Georgia last summer, Russia is making a strategic mistake if it equates China’s public silence with tacit acquiescence in the Kremlin’s
claim
to “privileged” influence in the post-Soviet countries to China’s west.
Nothing could be further from the truth than the
claim
that Europe and Europeans, with the possible exception of the Greeks, are in denial.
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