Claim
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My creditors will have the first
claim
on my estate – everything that I wanted to leave to my children.
He has strengthened the position of many in Europe and elsewhere who are skeptical of challenging a country’s territorial integrity or who still
claim
to believe in a negotiated settlement.
And, while its western neighbor Iraq is a fellow Shia-majority state, Iraq’s Arab Shia make no secret of their distaste for the Persians and their
claim
to Shia prominence.
The defense lawyer points to the key piece of evidence and addresses the prosecutor: “You, sir,
claim
that this CD containing all the incriminating documents was prepared by my client in 2003.
Back then, Mercosur leaders could
claim
to offer an “alternative development model” for the region.
In their “ideal” world without either, there would, they claim, be no unemployment.
And even if they do check, regulators can always
claim
that the worst was avoided precisely because they had warned of the risk.
All were termed “unlawful enemy combatants,” allowing the US to
claim
that they have no right to the protections of the Geneva Conventions.
But, unless Israel is ready to pay an exceptionally high price in terms of its international standing by occupying Gaza and destroying its entire military hierarchy and arsenal, Hamas can still
claim
victory, having survived yet another onslaught by Israel’s colossal military machine.
All of this will strengthen the renminbi’s
claim
to reserve-currency status.
So it is risky to
claim
that the opposition will soon rout HDZ.
Overcoming East Asia’s Sovereignty DisputesBRUSSELS – China’s recent elevation of its
claim
to the Diaoyu Islands to a “core interest” has made the prospect of resolving its sovereignty dispute with Japan, which governs the islands, even trickier.
Unless China demonstrates that it can live peacefully with its neighbors, its government’s
claim
that the international community has nothing to fear from the country’s growing power will be doubted.
Then, when real change does occur, no one can
claim
that the people “are not ready for it.”
Both Abu Bakar Ba’asyir and Playboy are now out on the streets and in the public eye, but neither is as significant as its opponents
claim.
More important, an elected president has much greater legitimacy than a hereditary monarch, whose
claim
to authority depends exclusively on tradition and ceremony.
Rumors abound that the family of Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, its former chairman, has a large stake, a
claim
the prime minister vigorously denies.)
The Dutch Freedom Party (whose only member is its leader, Geert Wilders), the Danish People’s Party, led by Pia Kjaersgaard, and Jimmy Akesson’s Sweden Democrats
claim
to be the defenders of Western civilization against its main enemy: Islam.
Europe will not be safer under politicians who
claim
that we are at war with Islam.
While some might
claim
that the poor and middle-class voters supporting the Republican tax plans have simply been duped, the full picture is much more complicated – and much more interesting.
Emerging-market countries will not only
claim
the lion’s share of global growth in the coming decade; they will also increasingly be the source of disruptive and frugal innovation.
If South Korea develops a nuclear arsenal, Japan is likely to do the same, especially given China’s aggressive pursuit of its
claim
to the Japanese-occupied Senkaku Islands (which the Chinese
claim
as the Diaoyu Islands).
How many countries emerging from dark authoritarian rule (one thinks of Russia, East Germany, Spain, Portugal, or Brazil) can
claim
the same?
Inequality has not fallen; but, contrary to what some critics claim, it has not increased either.
This tendency at times of economic downturn suggests that SWFs are not the long-term, stable shareholders of foreign firms that they (and some commentators)
claim
themselves to be.
Coming from a president who won global sympathy – and a Nobel Peace Prize – for his moral stance, the
claim
that the NSA’s activities are justified because “that’s how intelligence services operate” is particularly disappointing.
The US and Obama have lost their
claim
to the moral high ground.
But if there really is a “democracy deficit,” as populists claim, the increased use of referendums is no cure for it.
Despite Trump’s State of the Union
claim
that ISIS is nearly defeated, some 3,000 fighters remain in Syria, occasionally even capturing territory.
Thus, if China truly is the mercantilist power that many in the West claim, it should tilt decisively towards the South.
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